WIP: See the road map on this readme file

 

About

Canto is am entirely free, simple journaling app for Android. It's built with react-native and may one day be ported to ioPs. It's meant to resolve frustrations with the current journaling mobile app ecosystem - pointless features, insane charges and 'DiaryAsAService'-bs.

Features:

• Completely free and open source.
• Management of multiple journals.
• Encryption. Always. Everywhere.
• Automated backups with Google Drive.
• Add images, files, GPS data, tags and comments to your entries.
• Format using markdown.
• Optionally use a password to lock your data.
• Filter and query your previous entries.

 

Contributing

BUG REPORT

Please create an issue tagged as bug. Include the platform, a description of the problem and how to reproduce it.

 

Fixes, improvements, features

Please create an issue for discussing the changes. If all is well, your PR will be merged once reviwed.

 

Localization

Create a PR that adds your language to .src/Dictionary/index.js.

 

Roadmap

First release:

• (being worked at) Finish Google Drive Integration for automated backups.

  • Fix uploaded image download/upload (currently receiving empty data array from API)
  • Check for bugs

• Add option to create readable exports of a journal (doc or markdown file)

• Add option to generate local exports that can be used as backups

• Add option to load local exports

• Add loading spin in areas it's needed

• General compatibility test on other android API levels and devices

Long term support:

• Tests, none currently exists.
• Migrate to TypeScript.

 

Development

1. Connect your phone or emulator using Android Studio

2. Run JS Server on a terminal

Console #1

> yarn start 

3. Compile and install Canto

Console #2

> yarn android

 

Google Drive Integration

Install react-native-google-signin and react-native-google-drive-api-wrapper. Make sure your app SHA1 fingerprint is properly setup.

Create a project at Google's API console, adding an OAuth 2.0 web credential. Save it to a gdriveCredentials.js file at this project root directory. Just export the credential json: export default {/* json credentials data */}.

Remember to enable access to the Google Drive API.

 

Build

Android

Issues derived from mmkv-storage

This project uses react-native-mmkv-storage. If the project wont build after following the installation instrunctions, check the related issue.