Journiv Immich Integration Launch: Capture the story behind your photos and videos.
from rockstar1215@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 20:40
https://lemmy.world/post/42109853
from rockstar1215@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 20:40
https://lemmy.world/post/42109853
Hello everyone!
The day is here! Journiv’s Immich integration (watch full demo) is out. Now you can capture the story behind your photos and videos.
Highlights:
- Dual mode: Since the community was split (1, 2) on link vs copy, Journiv supports both mode.
- Link Mode: Journiv will store references to Immich assets and also add them in an album called Journiv in you immich profile so you can easily see all the assets used in your journal.
- Copy Mode: Journiv copies the original assets in it’s media storage so you always have them in Journiv as a copy.
- Linkbacks: If an assets in your journal entry came from Journiv then Journiv shows you an option to jump back to that asset in Immich with a single click (well if we are counting it is two clicks :))
- Immich Picker: Journiv has a integrated immich picker which allow you to browse all your immich assets within Journiv.
- Principle of least privilege: Journiv Immich integration has been designed with principle of least privilege and require a minimal set of permission on the API key to function.
- Many more features, bug fixes, enhancements.
- I also wrote a blogpost about this development.
- Yesterday was a big day for Journiv and me: Alex Tran u/altran1502, the founder of Immich became a Github sponsor of Journiv.
Background
Journiv is a self-hosted private journaling application that puts you in complete control of your personal reflections. Built with privacy and simplicity at its core, Journiv offers comprehensive journaling capabilities including mood tracking, prompt-based journaling, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search. All while keeping your data on your own infrastructure.
Learn More
- Spin up Journiv
- Github
- Watch other demo videos
- Want to just try a demo? https://demo.almostadatacenter.com/ (Thanks to JasonFieldz for hosting a demo instance): username: demo@test.com password: Demo1234
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Still don’t have a use case, but damn that looks sweet for someone who does.
Thank you :)
Agreed. This is legit so cool, but I just don’t have a use for it myself.
Immich is set up because I really like the image processing for things like seeing a timeline of my son’s pictures as he grows up. Pretty nifty addon to all that.
In between preparing for the snowpocalypse, I’ve been scratching my head, because this seems huge. Two very capable dev teams/softwares combined their wonder twin powers, and it looks so awesome.
Thank you. As an Immich lover it is an honor for Journiv to be considered similar to it :)
I have similar kinda story and thats how Journiv was born: www.journiv.com/blog/the-story-behind-journiv
I wanted to capture all the stories/thoughts behind the pictures to some day maybe pass it down to my kids but I didn’t want to put all this info on some third party server. I looked a lot for self hosted journal kind of solution but didn’t find anything beside note taking apps (plenty of them). So finally decided to take matters in my hand. Immich integration was a primary use case for me so everyday/week I can add snippets notes to pics to keep memory of those pics and what I was thinking, what was happening, what did the kid said/do etc etc.
Kudos!
That looks so cool! Thank you for sharing! I can’t wait to use it in production
Do you have an IBAN for donations?
Thank you. Please let me know your feedback. I am not sure what IBAN is but yes I do have support page: www.journiv.com/support and github sponsors: github.com/sponsors/swalabtech
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I’ve got the default production compose configuration with podman.
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My immich user did not receive a new album called “Journiv”. I had to go to the journiv settings and “update connection” such that the folder appears. Yet, there are no entries.
In the website settings, it states “store reference to immich assets. Files are fetched on-demand” (unfortunately I couldn’t copy and paste the original text as described above).
To me, the best setting for photos would be to store a local preview and link to the original. A jpeg/jxl/avif would be increadibly small but display everything properly. If you want to zoom in, go to the original photo.
Videos can be very big referencing them when using “copy to journiv” unnecessarily increases storage consumption. Having a local preview image and the reference to the original video would be great - for me.
link to immich album
suggest using the geo location of the immich photo
suggestion for immich: add link to journiv in the photo (description)
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Thank you!
This is great 👍
Thank you.
Is a photoprism integration planned as well or just immich?
Hello, no not as of now. Immich integration was done because I am a huge immich fan and user and I wanted to journal around my immich library media. A lot of immich community member also wanted it. I have never used Photoprism so I am not sure what it is and how it works. But if there is enough demand for it then it can be added. When I built immich integration I made it modular so I can plugin other media provider in future as needed.
Why did you choose this approach, vs adding comment metadata to each image? I’ve had the same initial thought, and now my photo collection has a story within each image, saved within its ‘comment’ metadata.
I like my approach because the stories are saved right with the image. They are coupled so you don’t loose one from another, regardless of software choice. My thought is that in 20 years time, what software and data standards are going to be around? Archival tends to work best when its simple and resilient. How does Journiv handle the text and image data?
Cool looking project :)