Zombie Diary is a simple, secure and attractive journal app. Writing a journal is fun and enjoyable with Zombie Diary. Share your life stories with Zombie Diary. No matter how sensitive, emotional or private they are, Zombie Diary will keep them as a secret. More importantly, Zombie Diary is completely open source, no secrets in the code. No hidden backdoors, telemetry or spyware. Zombie Diary is the most trustworthy friend you will ever find.
- Free and Open Source
- Light and Dark themes
- Text Formatting
- Full Text Search
- Statistics
Samuel Meuli, a skillful software developer created a great journal app called Mini Diary. His Mini Diary software had many users and good contributors. I was also a big fan of that app. I used it and I loved it. Unfortunately, Mini Diary author, Samuel Meuli stopped further development of the project and marked the project as archived.
I was not ready to give up using Mini Diary. I don't want to let Mini Diary die. So I forked the Mini Diary project and that's the birth of Zombie Diary. The beautiful, attractive interface you see is from the Mini Diary author, Samuel Meuli. My target is to maintain this project as closely as possible to the Mini Diary project.
I don't have any connection with Mini Diary developers. I'm just a fan of Mini Diary project.
So now you know how Zombie Diary project was made, but why I name the project as Zombie Diary? Well, project Mini Diary is dead but this project, Zombie diary is not. Zombie Diary is live. What do you call a man who exist in real world but also dead? Zombie?
Mini Diary Project
Mini Diary website by samuelmeuli → minidiary.app
The application is built with Electron and React. To run or build the app yourself, you'll need to have Node.js and Yarn installed.
Notice: master branch is to be deleted. Since 2020, a lot happed in electron ecosystem. Most easiest way to migrate the project to electron 17 is to build app from scratch extracting code from mini-diary project as much as possible. New code will be written in "main" branch. Reason I'm not deleting master brance now is because it is where the current stable code is.
- Clone this repository:
git clone REPO_URL - Navigate into the project directory:
cd zombie-diary - Install the dependencies:
yarn - Run the app:
yarn start
After cloning the repo and installing the dependencies, run yarn dist. The packaged app can be
found in the dist folder.
Suggestions and contributions are always welcome! Please first discuss changes via issue before submitting a pull request.
The list of all English strings can be found in en.ts. If
there are translations missing for your language and you'd like to help with the translation, you
can add the translated strings to your language's file in
src/main/i18n/translations and submit a PR.
If the app isn't translated into your language yet and you'd like to help out, you can easily add translations with the following steps:
- The translation files can be found in
src/main/i18n/translations. Duplicate theen.tsfile as[LANG].ts, where[LANG]is the shortcode of your language. - In the file you just created, replace the English translations with your own.
- Import your file in the
ALL_TRANSLATIONSobject insrc/main/i18n/i18n.ts. - Add your language shortcode to the
electronLanguagesarray inpackage.json. - Run the app in your language (see the steps above) and make sure that the translations fit into the app (e.g. that they aren't too long for input fields).
- Submit a PR. Thanks for your help!
If you love this project, then you should be thankful to the Mini Diary project author and other contributors. Without them, You won't be able to use Zombie-Diary.