Daily You

Daily You is a Flutter-built, offline-first daily journal that keeps every entry on-device — no accounts, no ads, no telemetry. Its tagline, "Every day is worth remembering," frames the app as a private space for capturing thoughts, rating mood, attaching photos, and writing Markdown notes that you fully own. A backup-and-restore flow plus an "Import From Another App" path make it a credible migration target for users leaving hosted journal services.

Why it matters

• Local-first by design. Entries, tags, templates, and photo blobs live in a SQLite database on the device (with optional external storage), so the journal works without a network and stays exportable as plain JSON.
• Cross-platform parity. A single Flutter codebase targets Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and Snap, so desktop and phone share entries through the standard backup-restore flow.
• Mood and flashbacks. Each entry carries an optional mood score, and a flashback_manager resurfaces "on this day" entries from prior years — a private TimeHop whose tone you can tune by excluding low-mood days.
• F-Droid friendly. A Nix flake, an AppImageBuilder config, and reproducible Android builds let the app ship on F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, and GitHub Releases without modification.

How it works

The app is structured around a thin DAO layer over sqflite: each domain entity (entries, tags, tag categories, images, templates) has its own DAO under lib/database/, and app_database.dart wires migrations. A provider-based state tree feeds a Material 3 UI with pages for the home timeline, entries list, edit page, statistics (backed by fl_chart), and a settings page that hosts backup, restore, import, theme, notification, and calendar options.

The standout piece is lib/flashback_manager.dart: given the current locale and calendar (Gregorian or Jalali, via the shamsi_date dependency), it walks reversed entries and groups past entries by day, week, month, and year, producing a surfaced "memories" feed on the home page. Notifications come from flutter_local_notifications plus android_alarm_manager_plus for random daily reminders, and local_auth gates the app behind biometrics where supported.

Caveats

• No cloud sync. Daily You does not ship its own sync server; you move data between devices manually via backup files, WebDAV, or shared external storage.
• Single user. There is no concept of multiple journals or accounts in the data model — one install, one author.
• GPL-3.0. Fine for personal use and community forks, but commercial derivative apps must publish their changes.
• Jalali is opt-in. Persian-calendar users get full date handling, but switching back to Gregorian can leave flashback grouping inconsistent until enough entries accrue.

Deployment notes

For end users, the simplest path is installing from F-Droid or IzzyOnDroid on Android; iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux builds live on the GitHub Releases page.

To build from source:

git clone https://github.com/Demizo/Daily_You.git
cd Daily_You
nix develop          # or: install Flutter (>=3.0) and `flutter pub get`
flutter run

Minimum: Any device that runs Flutter 3.0+. Expect ~50–100 MB of local storage for a year of mixed text-and-photo entries; SQLite keeps lookup fast well past 10,000 entries.

Integration tip: in a directory like this one, pair Daily You with any privacy- or self-hosting-tagged record. If you already list immich or joplin, position Daily You as the "private diary" counterpart — same GPL-3.0 / no-account philosophy, but for the short-form reflections that don't belong in a note-taking app.