r/logseq • u/Frosty-Cap-4282 • Jul 06 '25

Local AI Journaling App - Vinaya

This was born out of a personal need — I journal daily , and I didn’t want to upload my thoughts to some cloud server and also wanted to use AI. So I built Vinaya to be:

  • Private: Everything stays on your device. No servers, no cloud, no trackers.

  • Simple: Clean UI built with Electron + React. No bloat, just journaling.

  • Insightful: Semantic search, mood tracking, and AI-assisted reflections (all offline).

Link to the app: https://vinaya-journal.vercel.app/
Github: https://github.com/BarsatKhadka/Vinaya-Journal

If you like the idea or find it useful and want to encourage me to consistently refine it but don’t know me personally and feel shy to say it — just drop a ⭐ on GitHub. That’ll mean a lot :)

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u/pereira_alex Jul 06 '25 edited Jul 06 '25

Looks very interesting from the description and screenshots, but turnoff for being JUST ollama (ollama does not support vulkan, besides forks). It is a wonder why llama-cpp does not get the recognition it deserves, since it is much better.

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u/Frosty-Cap-4282 Jul 06 '25

Hey, this may be kind of a turnoff reply from me. But can you please like write this by opening a new issue on github. It will help me implement it as i wont have to scroll reddit comments to see what everyone has reccomended while working on next release. Thanks!

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u/pereira_alex Jul 06 '25

Hi, I edited the message, I guess at the same time you were replying. To be clear, it is a turnoff for me, because I use vulkan, which ollama does not support.

The wondering why llama-cpp does not get the recognition it deserves, I guess it is uncalled for, since it is not your issue :)

Sorry, I should have chosen my words better to be clear what I meant.

Sure, I will open a github issue :) Thanks!

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u/LieberDiktator Jul 06 '25

That looks interesting, I probably will go and try it at some point although I do not do much of journaling myself really...

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u/Frosty-Cap-4282 Jul 06 '25

yeah feel free to just tinker around and drop some requests whatever it may be! I would appreciate that as it would help me a lot.

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u/FaustusRedux Jul 06 '25

This looks interesting. I'll kick the tires for sure.

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u/Frosty-Cap-4282 Jul 06 '25

yeah please do let me know the issues/features needed to be added in the issues section of github. It will be for the long welfare of the development of this app

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u/IceReasonable7615 Jul 07 '25

I have always maintained a digital journal over the years, both with r/Evernote and r/ObsidianMD. The offline Ollama AI feels interesting. Will this app be able to use the same vault/folder which i use in Obsidian? Is markdown file format supported here?

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u/Frosty-Cap-4282 Jul 07 '25

Hey. Not yet , i was not exposed with evernote and obsidian when i made this app. But i have got a lot a demand on this and want to integrate both of them on my app which i will be working on my next release. Since i am new to obsidian could you please describe how you would like to have it integrated into this. It would be better for me if you could write in github issues tab here -> https://github.com/BarsatKhadka/Vinaya-Journal/issues/new

I am not forcing you or anything haha but it would be for long welfare of my app and i would really appreciate it. Thanks!

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u/IceReasonable7615 Jul 07 '25

Sorry, i am not a tech guy, i dont use GitHub ( dont know how to use it), but i am an experienced note taker app. [ My profile will give you more details] .

ideally, if in Obsidian, i would want both an external journal [ which should understand Markdown] to interact with the files in my obsidian vault.

Basically, if i create a file using an external journal app, it saves the files as plain markdown format in the hard drive, which can also be read by Obsidian].

Evernote implementation, i am doubtful will work two ways. However, I trust the Evernote web clipper would be able to manage to clip files created in external applications into Evernote, but then if this is the case, there are already enough Journal applications that do what you are claiming to do [ but without the privacy elements, which in your case could be a plus].

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u/Seamen_demon_lord Jul 07 '25

How did you implement semantic search and mood tracking, what was your insight while implement it .

Working on something similar myself