Hello everyone!

The day is here! Journiv’s Immich integration (watch full demo) is out. Now you can capture the story behind your photos and videos.

Highlights:

  • Dual mode: Since the community was split (1, 2) on link vs copy, Journiv supports both mode.
  • Link Mode: Journiv will store references to Immich assets and also add them in an album called Journiv in you immich profile so you can easily see all the assets used in your journal.
  • Copy Mode: Journiv copies the original assets in it’s media storage so you always have them in Journiv as a copy.
  • Linkbacks: If an assets in your journal entry came from Journiv then Journiv shows you an option to jump back to that asset in Immich with a single click (well if we are counting it is two clicks :))
  • Immich Picker: Journiv has a integrated immich picker which allow you to browse all your immich assets within Journiv.
  • Principle of least privilege: Journiv Immich integration has been designed with principle of least privilege and require a minimal set of permission on the API key to function.
  • Many more features, bug fixes, enhancements.
  • I also wrote a blogpost about this development.
  • Yesterday was a big day for Journiv and me: Alex Tran u/altran1502, the founder of Immich became a Github sponsor of Journiv.

Background

Journiv is a self-hosted private journaling application that puts you in complete control of your personal reflections. Built with privacy and simplicity at its core, Journiv offers comprehensive journaling capabilities including mood tracking, prompt-based journaling, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search. All while keeping your data on your own infrastructure.

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    • RyanDownyJr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      18 hours ago

      Agreed. This is legit so cool, but I just don’t have a use for it myself.

      Immich is set up because I really like the image processing for things like seeing a timeline of my son’s pictures as he grows up. Pretty nifty addon to all that.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Agreed. This is legit so cool, but I just don’t have a use for it myself.

        In between preparing for the snowpocalypse, I’ve been scratching my head, because this seems huge. Two very capable dev teams/softwares combined their wonder twin powers, and it looks so awesome.

  • illusionist@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    Kudos!

    That looks so cool! Thank you for sharing! I can’t wait to use it in production

    Do you have an IBAN for donations?

      • illusionist@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago
        • IBAN: in Europe, we can simply transfer money between bank accounts just by knowing a number called IBAN. We do not have to pay 3% to paypal, stripe or whomever for the transaction. This is especially important for smaller (recurring) donations. Also, having an IBAN signals being a European service/product.

        Feedback

        I’ve got the default production compose configuration with podman.

        • Oftentimes, I can’t select text within boxes in the browser. Everything is a button and I can’t select text with the mouse. This is annoying.

        Random

        • The documentation is awesome! It looks like a high quality product!
        • pwa on android works great with firefox and vanadium
        • If I am using my instance, I can write freely because noone else has access to it. I wouldn’t want to use someone else’s instance as long as the text is not encrypted. It can have sensitive information and you should be able to write freely.

        Editor

        • I’d love having auto save always
        • today’s prompt:
          • at first I thought it depends on the date but after restarting the container, I think it is randomly selected whenever the container starts and then changes per day. This is just a guess.
          • Daily Prompts
            • I like having a random question per day. I’d love having an influence on the questions.
            • being able to up- and down-vote questions such that the likelihood increases/decreases slightly
            • being able to alter the question
            • add / remove (enable / disable) questions
            • just an idea: thematic question lists. e.g. 10 questions about life, questions about your past, questions about a potential life, silly questions / jokes, zen-koans: questions with no logical answer. probably that’s too much for the app (at this stage) but why not dreaming.

        Immich

        Link Mode: Journiv will store references to Immich assets and also add them in an album called Journiv in you immich profile so you can easily see all the assets used in your journal.

        My immich user did not receive a new album called “Journiv”. I had to go to the journiv settings and “update connection” such that the folder appears. Yet, there are no entries.

        In the website settings, it states “store reference to immich assets. Files are fetched on-demand” (unfortunately I couldn’t copy and paste the original text as described above).

        • To me, the best setting for photos would be to store a local preview and link to the original. A jpeg/jxl/avif would be increadibly small but display everything properly. If you want to zoom in, go to the original photo.

        • Videos can be very big referencing them when using “copy to journiv” unnecessarily increases storage consumption. Having a local preview image and the reference to the original video would be great - for me.

        • link to immich album

        • suggest using the geo location of the immich photo

        • suggestion for immich: add link to journiv in the photo (description)

        Login

        • Proton pass does not recognize the login fields, email and password.
        • I expected to be able to use my username and password, but I can only provide email and password to login. Having both would be great.

        Thank you!