Journally - A journal entry a day. All through text.

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Welcome to Journally! Where we restore our memories one journal, one day at a time. Journally sends you a daily reminder via text, where you respond by writing a short journal, where you can access these journals later on the Journally website.

Quick Demo Video

📚 Technologies 📚

• Twilio to send our registered users daily messages to Journal!
• Secure MySQL database to to store user registration info and their journally entries
• Flask to send SMS from a user database of phone numbers
• Flask to receive SMS and store the user's Journallys into the database
• Node.JS for server routings, user registration on site, and storing user data into the database
• Express.js backend to host Journally
• Bootstrap for footers and buttons and a responsive design

💻 Get Journally on your Local Computer 💻

• see notes.md for dependencies
• Flask and a virtual environment also required
• To run Flask (send and receive SMS messages), cd sms_backend, then python app.py in your terminal
• Create a .env file in your local root directory that stores the following variables:
  • DATABASE (name of your database)
  • DATABASE_HOST (localhost if on your local machine)
  • DATABASE_USER (usually root, can go to XAMPP or MAMP to determine)
  • DATABASE_PASSWORD (usually either empty or root depending on your db host server)
• To run the Journally website, ensure you're in the root directory and run npm start, then navigate to localhost:3001
• Make sure you have all the Express.js dependencies in notes.md installed!

👣 Next Steps 👣

• allow simple markups like bolds in texts
• allow user to rate their day on a scale
• sort by scale feature
• feel free to contribute!! Let's Journally together
• encouraging/restoring quotes

🙏 Contributors and Acknowledgments 🙏

• made by Natalie and Qingyuan
• thank you to virtually ALL relevant the documentations and online tutorials - we couldn't have done it without you
• thank you to U of T Hacks for giving us this restoring opportunity :)