Braindump

A local-first desktop app for journaling your thoughts. Write freely — AI analyzes each entry for mood, flags anxious moments, extracts calendar events and tasks, and lets you search everything semantically.

Features

• Thought journaling — write raw stream-of-consciousness entries
• AI analysis — each thought is summarized and scored for mood and anxiety
• Landmark detection — significant mood shifts or life events are flagged automatically
• Calendar extraction — tasks and events mentioned in thoughts are automatically created, updated, or deleted
• Semantic search — find past thoughts and events by meaning, not just keywords
• Mood over time — visualize your average mood day by day
• Local-first — everything is stored on-device via PGLite (embedded Postgres with vector search); nothing leaves your machine except AI API calls

AI Providers

Braindump supports pluggable AI backends. Configure your preferred provider and model in settings:

• Mistral
• OpenAI

Your API token is stored locally and used only for processing your thoughts.

Development

npm install
npm run dev

This starts the Electron main process (with auto-reload via nodemon) and the Vite dev server concurrently.

Building

npm run build

Produces a distributable macOS app via electron-builder.

Database schema

Schema is managed with Drizzle ORM. To regenerate the SQL schema file after schema changes:

npm run export-schema