Journaling-Website

Purpose:

Main Purposes:

• A web application designed to help me improve productivity in & out of university.
• Convert my journaling process from pen & paper to digital.
• Use no paper in my journaling process to help save the environment.
• Create a localhost website that doesn't require any internet connection to be used.

Other Purposes:

• Offer a free solution to the public, so that they can also increase their productivity.
• Give myself a passion project to work on over the summer holiday period.
• Gain more experience in web development.
• Improve my security practice in web development.

How to use website to benefit your productivity.

To maximise the impact the website has on you, use it daily.

What to put in the journal fields:

• Weeding - Type through a problem you are having until you reach a logical answer to how you can solve the problem.
• Reflection - Write down everything productive you have done in the day to reflect on the achievements you have accomplished.
• Planning - Plan productive tasks that you are going to carry out the next day. (Not so many that the work feels overbearing)
• Note Taking - Write down anything you have found interesting about your day, or important things to remeber e.g. appointments.
• Question - Here you are going to want to put a big question that you want to think deeply on for a certain amount of time e.g. How can i build a web app to help people improve their productivity for free.

Features:

User Features:

• Users can sign up & create an account on their localhost version of the website.
• Users can view their journal entries upon logging in.
• Users can add journal entries to their journal.
• Users can change their password.
• Users can change their username.
• Users can delete entries.

Security Features:

• Dot dot dash attacks will not work.
• All data is either encrypted or hashed.
• .htaccess file prevents directory listing.
• All data is cleaned and escaping is used on certain characters.
• Cross site-scripting doesn't work
• All sensitive data stored in sessions are encrypted.
• Only the user knows the encryption/decryption key to the data.

Data Features:

• SQL Server setup not required to run website.
• All data is either encrypted or hashed.
• All data is sorted before being stored.
• Data is normalised to third normal form for scalability

Other Features:

• Website application only requires appache server to work. (recommended server localhoster is XAMPP)
• Responsive webiste including scalability for mobile-versions.
• Website does not require internet connection.

Languages:

• PHP
• HTML
• CSS
• Bootstrap
• JSON