Headstart Journal 🚀 📖

I am currently working on mobile (iOS & Android) version of this project, written in React Native. Check out Headstart Journal if you are interested.

Mindfullnes-Journal

This project is inspired by "5-minute Journal" ( http://amzn.to/1A62uSa ). Beautiful, very well designed paper journal that uses positive psychology hacks and tricks to force you into beeing a positive, happy and effective individual.

In essence it's a PHP script that creates a note in your Evernote account with:

• Daily Mindfullness practice
• Your agenda for the day with TODO items taken from evernote
• Your calendar items for the day
• Your daily habits to practice
• Recap of today's photos

Basically, it's an automated system to make you AWESOME.

Please elaborate

Daily mindfullness practice is widely considered to be one of the best productivity and well-being enhancers possible.

• Counting your blessings is the shortest path to achieve happiness and internal balance. More on that in this TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_steindl_rast_want_to_be_happy_be_grateful
• Setting your agenda for the day is what ALL successfull people do. If you dont want your day to fall to pieces, you better plan it ahead. If you consider Tim Ferriss successful, this is what he wants you to do. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_dUSGfsQZg)
• Doing daily review of your accomplishments during the day is the best way to reflect, draw conclusions and stay awesome.

What does this do?

I consider Evernote to be a hub of all my activity. So I keep todo notes as items tagged by "todo-now" tag, so all my items with immidiate priority will be found in that tag.

You hook up this script with CRON, so it creates a note with:

• Prepared template (some other evernote note)
• Todo list with:
• Daily habits you want to practice
• TODO items - basically links to notes with a specific tag in Evernote.
• Agenda for today - items from your Google Calendar
• Misfit Shine fitness tracker (http://misfit.com/) stats. I own one, and it's one of my resolutuons to move more, so I want my statisticsin the journal
• Daily points - I want to make at least 1500 points vie moving with Misfit Shine
• Sleep statistics - I want to be able to draw conclusions regarding influence of my habits on my sleep patterns. When I have everything in the journal, it's easier to to revise.
• Photos taken from my smartphone this day - I ahave an android phone with cloud backup enabled for google+ photos. So, thumbnails of every photo I take this day gets inserted into journal entry for the day.

Setup

I have tied together multiple services. You can skip some of them, commenting out specific portions of code.

Evernote account

This is a must-have. In your evernote account you will need:

• Evernote developer token - this is a token to connect external services to api. You can get token for your account here: https://www.evernote.com/api/DeveloperToken.action
• Note with template. Every new journal entry is created by copying template note. You can see my template in file TemplateNote/Journal SZABLON.html
• Tag for marking your immidiate todo's. All notes marked by this tag will be an item in your todo for the day.
• Tag for quotes. Random note with this tag gets inserted instead of [CYTAT] in the note.

###Database You will need mysql database. Everything is mostly needed to save data for google api oauth tokens.

###Google services

• You will need to setup google oauth information in database in order to authorize application with oauth 2.
• Same for google calendar and google+ photos.