About

Everywhen is an open source journal / life logging app. It's a place to record your thoughts, feelings, experiences and keep track of your life.

Please note that this is a work in progress, and bug reports and feature requests are welcome on the GitHub issues .

Your Data

The core of Everywhen is making you feel safe to write anything. Everything, even your settings, are encrypted before being stored, using your password. As your password is not stored on the server, even if the entire server was leaked, no-one could read your entries.

However this security comes with a compromise:

If you lose your password, there is no way to recover your data!

I would recommend using a password manager to generate a strong password, and storing it somewhere safe. You can then set a passcode as an additional layer of security which is easier to remember.

Please disclose any security vulnerabilities to me at josephcoppin@gmail.com, rather than publicly on the GitHub issues.

Entries

Record your entries in the journal. Each entry stores a title, a body, a label, a timestamp and optionally your location when writing it.

You can edit entries by clicking , but all your previous versions are stored, so you can always see what you changed and when. You can mark an entry as deleted, and it will be hidden from your journal. However, once you submit an entry, there is no way to delete it permanently.

Your recent entries will appear in your journal page, as well as entries from the same day in previous years.

You can write in MarkDown/HTML in your entries. For example **bold** or <b>bold</b>. The HTML is sanitized before being shown. You can insert images into entries by dragging and dropping them into the entry, or clicking .

Events

Events are completely separate to your entries and can be modified and deleted at any time. Events are a way to keep track of things that happen in your life, such as birthdays, holidays, TV shows you've watched and more. Events can either be 'instant' event, or 'duration' events. Instant events are events that happen at a specific time, such as a birthday. Duration events are events that happen over a period of time, such as a holiday. You can also add labels to events.

Timeline

Both your entries and events are displayed on the timeline. Instant events appear as 'pins', while duration events appear as 'bars'. The color of the event represents its label.

Entries appear in the timeline as grey bars hanging down from the center horizontal line. The height of the bar represents the number of words in the entry.

The blue line is the current time, which updates in real time. Zoom in and out by scrolling, or dragging up and down for mobile. Drag left and right to scroll through time.

The short green bar always appears in the middle of our screen and is like a cursor which shows the date and time at that point on the timeline.

You can set the starting year of the timeline in settings.

Blurring

You can toggle the blurring of various parts of the page which may contain sensitive information. For example, you can have everything blur after an amount of time of inactivity. It allows you to view pages containing sensitive information without having to worry about other people seeing it.

Press ctrl + esc (or cmd + esc on Mac) to toggle the blurring across the page. You can change the configuration of this blurring in settings.

Gallery

You can view all the images you have uploaded in the gallery. Images are not automatically deleted when you delete an entry. When you delete an image, the image the not removed from the entry, which will leave a broken link. The entire image is encrypted when stored, and included in backups.

The button will copy the markdown to link to the image to your clipboard which can then be used in an entry.

Locations

Create a Named Location by right clicking on the map on the Map page. This will create an area in which entries are considered to be at that location. Click the location to change the name or delete, and drag to resize and move.