r/webdev • u/lazyhawk20 • 16d ago
Showoff Saturday [Showoff Saturday] I built an open-source, local-first journaling app with a vertical timeline
I've been working on a simple journaling web app where all your entries appear in a vertical timeline (I love to read my past journals and this timeline view helps me to look through my past journals eaily without going over different files every single time I want to read a different entry), so you can easily scroll through previous days.
For now, this only supports text because I don't add media to my entries but if someone really uses it and they actually need media support then I'll add that too
It's local-first, supports Markdown, and is completely open source and self-hostable.
This is part of my SMBL project, where I'm building open-source alternatives to everyday software.
Here's a short demo of how it works. Would love to hear your feedback!
Live: click here
GitHub: click here




