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A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Add copy buttons to all
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}
} catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Add Copy Buttons to Code Blocks]', __e); }
})();
(function(){
try {
var __m = "github.com";
var __re = new RegExp('^' + "github\\.com" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Force GitHub README to respect dark mode\n(function() {\n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '\n .markdown-body {\n color-scheme: dark light;\n }\n .markdown-body pre { background: #161b22 !important; }\n .markdown-body code { background: rgba(110, 118, 129, 0.4) !important; }\n .markdown-body table th, .markdown-body table td { border-color: #30363d !important; }\n .markdown-body img { background: #0d1117; }\n .markdown-body blockquote { border-left-color: #8b949e; }\n .markdown-body hr { border-color: #30363d; }\n ';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n})();", "GitHub Dark Mode README Fix"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:GitHub Dark Mode README Fix]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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A simple journaling app with local persistence

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Highlight search terms from Google/DuckDuckGo/Bing referrer\n(function() {\n var ref = document.referrer;\n var terms = [];\n \n if (ref.includes('google.com') || ref.includes('duckduckgo.com') || ref.includes('bing.com')) {\n var url = new URL(ref);\n var q = url.searchParams.get('q') || url.searchParams.get('p');\n if (q) {\n terms = q.split(/\\s+/).filter(function(t) { return t.length > 2; });\n }\n }\n \n if (terms.length === 0) return;\n \n var style = document.createElement('style');\n style.textContent = '.userscript-highlight { background: #fbbf24; color: #1a1a2e; padding: 1px 3px; border-radius: 2px; }';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n \n function highlight(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 3) { // text node\n var text = node.textContent;\n var found = false;\n terms.forEach(function(term) {\n var regex = new RegExp('(' + term.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\\]\\\\]/g, '\\\\') + ')', 'gi');\n if (regex.test(text)) {\n found = true;\n var frag = document.createDocumentFragment();\n var parts = text.split(regex);\n parts.forEach(function(part, i) {\n if (i % 2 === 0) {\n frag.appendChild(document.createTextNode(part));\n } else {\n var span = document.createElement('span');\n span.className = 'userscript-highlight';\n span.textContent = part;\n frag.appendChild(span);\n }\n });\n node.parentNode.replaceChild(frag, node);\n }\n });\n } else if (node.nodeType === 1 && node.childNodes) { // element\n var skipTags = ['SCRIPT', 'STYLE', 'NOSCRIPT', 'TEXTAREA', 'INPUT', 'SELECT'];\n if (!skipTags.includes(node.tagName)) {\n Array.from(node.childNodes).forEach(highlight);\n }\n }\n }\n \n highlight(document.body);\n \n // Re-highlight on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 3) highlight(node);\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Highlight Search Terms"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Highlight Search Terms]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Strip utm_, fbclid, gclid, etc. from all links on page\n(function() {\n var trackingParams = ['utm_source', 'utm_medium', 'utm_campaign', 'utm_term', 'utm_content',\n 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'dclid', 'msclkid', 'yclid',\n 'ref', 'ref_src', 'source', 'medium', 'campaign'];\n \n function cleanUrl(url) {\n try {\n var u = new URL(url, window.location.origin);\n var changed = false;\n trackingParams.forEach(function(p) {\n if (u.searchParams.has(p)) {\n u.searchParams.delete(p);\n changed = true;\n }\n });\n return changed ? u.toString() : url;\n } catch (e) {\n return url;\n }\n }\n \n function cleanLinks() {\n document.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n \n cleanLinks();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n mutations.forEach(function(m) {\n m.addedNodes.forEach(function(node) {\n if (node.nodeType === 1) {\n if (node.tagName === 'A') cleanLinks();\n node.querySelectorAll('a[href]').forEach(function(a) {\n var clean = cleanUrl(a.href);\n if (clean !== a.href) a.href = clean;\n });\n }\n });\n });\n });\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "Remove Tracking Parameters from Links"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Remove Tracking Parameters from Links]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "youtube.com"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + "youtube\\.com" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Auto-enable theater mode on YouTube\n(function() {\n function tryTheater() {\n var btn = document.querySelector('button[aria-label=\"Theater mode\"], ytd-player #player button[title=\"Theater mode\"]');\n if (btn && !btn.classList.contains('activated')) {\n btn.click();\n }\n }\n \n // Try immediately\n tryTheater();\n \n // Try after navigation (SPA)\n var lastUrl = location.href;\n setInterval(function() {\n if (location.href !== lastUrl) {\n lastUrl = location.href;\n setTimeout(tryTheater, 500);\n }\n }, 1000);\n \n // Also try on player load\n var observer = new MutationObserver(tryTheater);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });\n})();", "YouTube Theater Mode Default"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:YouTube Theater Mode Default]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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A simple journaling app with local persistence

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Remove or un-stick sticky/fixed headers that block content\n(function() {\n function unstick() {\n document.querySelectorAll('header, nav, [role=\"banner\"], .header, .navbar, .sticky, .fixed-top, [style*=\"position: fixed\"], [style*=\"position:sticky\"]').forEach(function(el) {\n if (el.style.position === 'fixed' || el.style.position === 'sticky' || \n getComputedStyle(el).position === 'fixed' || getComputedStyle(el).position === 'sticky') {\n el.style.position = 'static';\n el.style.top = 'auto';\n el.style.zIndex = 'auto';\n }\n });\n }\n \n unstick();\n \n var observer = new MutationObserver(unstick);\n observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true, attributes: true, attributeFilter: ['style', 'class'] });\n})();", "Kill Sticky Headers"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Kill Sticky Headers]', __e); } })(); (function(){ try { var __m = "*"; var __re = new RegExp('^' + ".*" + '
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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, 'i'); if (__m === '*' || __re.test(location.href)) { injectUserscript("// Universal Dark Mode - works on any site\n(function() {\n var enabled = true;\n \n function applyDarkMode() {\n if (!enabled) return;\n \n // Create style element if it doesn't exist\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (!style) {\n style = document.createElement('style');\n style.id = 'universal-dark-mode-style';\n document.head.appendChild(style);\n }\n \n // Dark mode CSS - inverts colors but preserves images/video\n style.textContent = '\n /* Invert everything except media */\n html {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #1a1a2e !important;\n }\n \n /* Restore images, videos, iframes, canvas */\n img, video, iframe, canvas, svg, picture, [style*=\"background-image\"] {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n }\n \n /* Preserve specific elements that should not be inverted */\n .no-dark-mode, .no-dark-mode *,\n [data-theme=\"light\"], [data-theme=\"light\"],\n .ace_editor, .ace_editor *,\n .CodeMirror, .CodeMirror *,\n .monaco-editor, .monaco-editor *,\n .markdown-body pre, .markdown-body pre *,\n .highlight, .highlight *,\n pre code, pre code * {\n filter: none !important;\n }\n \n /* Fix common UI elements */\n .modal, .popup, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip, .popover {\n filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(180deg) !important;\n background: #2d2d44 !important;\n border-color: #444 !important;\n }\n \n /* Scrollbars */\n ::-webkit-scrollbar { background: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: #444 !important; }\n ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb:hover { background: #555 !important; }\n \n /* Selection */\n ::selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ::-moz-selection { background: #4ecdc4 !important; color: #1a1a2e !important; }\n ';\n }\n \n function removeDarkMode() {\n var style = document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style');\n if (style) style.remove();\n }\n \n // Toggle with Alt+Shift+D\n document.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {\n if (e.altKey && e.shiftKey && e.key === 'D') {\n e.preventDefault();\n enabled = !enabled;\n if (enabled) {\n applyDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Enabled');\n } else {\n removeDarkMode();\n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Disabled');\n }\n }\n });\n \n // Apply on load\n applyDarkMode();\n \n // Re-apply on dynamic content\n var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {\n if (enabled && !document.getElementById('universal-dark-mode-style')) {\n applyDarkMode();\n }\n });\n observer.observe(document.head, { childList: true });\n \n console.log('[Universal Dark Mode] Loaded - Press Alt+Shift+D to toggle');\n})();", "Universal Dark Mode"); } } catch(__e) { console.warn('[Userscript:Universal Dark Mode]', __e); } })(); })();
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ZenJournal

A simple journaling app with a message-app-like interface, tags for entries, and local persistence. Built with Vite, React, and ShadcnUI.

Try it out here.

Motivation

For some reason, a message app interface creates less of a psychological hurdle to journaling than a Markdown file for me. I also like to have timestamps for my entries to log throughout the day and see how my day's been going.

I've been using Telegram for journaling, but I'm missing the ability to write my entries in one place, tag them, and then see entries for each tag separately. That's why I created ZenJournal.

Features roadmap

  • Tags get extracted from input text and attached to the entry
  • Persistence to localStorage
  • Editing and deleting entries
  • Suggestions dropdown with existing tags after typing #
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Back-up export and import
  • Keyboard navigation
  • Support mobile browsers

A note on using the Temporal API

When I travel between timezones (which is not rare), I want to see past entries written on the day and at the time they were written in the original timezone, not in the current timezone—but also preserve the timezone information in the data so that I can recover the exact time instant of the entry. I also want to group entries based on their date (in the original timezone). The ZonedDateTime, PlainTime, and PlainDate classes from the Temporal proposal make this incredibly easy compared to the Date class.

I use superjson to be able to persist Temporal instances, which I would've had to do for Date anyway.

A note on copying UX from Telegram

When in doubt, I copied behavior from Telegram, e.g. saving and restoring existing drafts when you edit a message, whitespace treatment, displaying the current text of the edited message, etc.

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