A daily journaling app that builds things for you.
Write your notes in a timeline, manage tasks that carry forward automatically, and hit ⌘↵ to generate custom mini-apps — a calorie tracker, a world clock, a habit chart — embedded right inside your journal.
- Website: https://philo.johnjeong.com
- Journal — write daily notes in a scrollable timeline (tomorrow → today → past)
- Track tasks — checkbox tasks roll over automatically; unchecked items carry forward to today on each app launch
- Recurring tasks — add
@daily,@weekly,@monthly,@2days,@3weeks, etc. to a task and it reappears on schedule after you check it off - Generate widgets — describe what you need and press ⌘↵ to create an interactive widget inline
- Save to library — widgets are disposable by default. Save the ones you like (⌘J to browse) and reuse them anywhere.
- Daily timeline — tomorrow, today, and past notes in a single scrollable view with a floating "Go to Today" button
- Task rollover — unchecked tasks from past days automatically move to today
- Recurring tasks — tag tasks with recurrence intervals (
@daily,@weekly,@2weeks, etc.) to have them repeat - AI widgets — generate interactive React mini-apps inline via Claude
- Widget library — save and reuse generated widgets across notes (⌘J)
- Image support — paste or drag-and-drop images directly into notes
- Local storage — all data stored as markdown files on disk (
$APPDATA/philo/journal/) - Dark mode — follows system theme
- Daily journaling — capture thoughts, plan tomorrow, review the past
- Habit tracking — recurring tasks like
- [ ] Meditate @dailyreappear each day - Personal dashboards — embed a calorie tracker, mood logger, or workout log directly in your journal
- Quick tools — need a unit converter or tip calculator? Generate it on the spot
- Project planning — spin up a kanban board, countdown timer, or progress tracker inside your notes
- ⌘↵ — Generate a widget from the current selection
- ⌘J — Open the widget library
- ⌘, — Open settings
Inspired by Logseq and @omer_vexler.
Tauri v2 · React 19 · TypeScript · TipTap · Tailwind CSS v4 · Anthropic Claude
Run pnpm run release:check after bumping the desktop version and before creating a GitHub release. It verifies formatting, frontend typechecks and build, and the Rust fmt/check/clippy/test/build steps that the desktop release depends on.
Philo is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. See LICENSE.
Philo is a proof-of-concept playground for a daily journaling feature being developed for Char. It borrows Char's editor styling and file-saving mechanism (via a git submodule at vendor/hyprnote) while adding philo-specific features: task rollover, recurring tasks, and AI widget generation.
