Show HN: I fixed journaling for myself

Journaling is a great practice to learn more about yourself - if done daily.

I tried it multiple times and couldn't stick to it.

This project is how I finally fixed it for myself.

It works by eliminating my excuses.

There is only one question a day that I'll answer - no time spent on "finding the perfect topic".

I only need to go to the page - not find my notebook or create a new note/paragraph in another app.

I only left myself a relatively small input area, less than a page in a small notebook - that way the commitment doesn't feel too big.

I really enjoy the process and it has become something that I do early in the morning - a little bit of time for myself.

It's now public because I am sure it could work for you too.

Bonus: The data is all local, the input will be saved in the browser (IndexedDB) while I type, no login necessary - the full journal is accessible as a CSV (bottom right).

https://dailyprompt.org

Show HN: I fixed journaling for myself
dailyprompt.org

I use Day 1 and talk into it, listen back and reflect

Cool idea. Include an about page somewhere. Where do you pull the questions from?

Also a random idea is that you allow people to save their entry directly into a git repo, which feels a bit safer than browser storage. I think there's a way to do that from the web.

Well done, and the one-click download/local data was exactly my first thought when visiting. One question: why CSV?

I can just open it in other tools and for example merge two sources. E.g. I do this on my laptop and on my phone. Download both, open with Excel and sort by date. I also considered more questions in the future or tracking numerical values.