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Meins/Lotti

Edit 05/2023: meins now lives in its own repo

This repository used to contain two related projects, Meins and Lotti.

Meins started out as a journaling application, with a focus on recording arbitrary measurable data (such as exercise repetitions, intake of water, alcohol, medications) in combination with mood and imported health data. The desktop application is written in Clojure and ClojureScript using Electron to target all the relevant desktop platforms Linux, Mac, and Windows. There used to be a mobile companion app for importing health data, photos, and audio recordings on the phone. This was also written in ClojureScript, using React Native to target both iOS and Android. This companion mobile app has been deprecated for a while in favor of a rewrite in Flutter, since there were too many issues with the approach.

Lotti is more or less an ongoing rewrite of the aforementioned Clojure and ClojureScript project, using Flutter. The main reason behind this migration, at least at the beginning, was Flutter's promise to allow building for all screens with a single codebase. This project is however not a one-for-one migration, since the project aims have evolved since. It is more and more becoming a toolkit for designing interventions, and thus proactively creating a better life to look back on, as opposed to just recording what is. Such interventions could for example be losing weight, improve blood pressure to prevent cardiovascular disease, and anything else you would want to change, and then monitor success.

Both applications share one important goal: keep private data private. Therefore, sync between devices is encrypted and takes place entirely within user-provided infrastructure in the form of an IMAP folder. Thus, it is not required to share sensitive information (e.g. medical) with anyone.

Come back soon for links to blog posts detailing the reasoning behind the ongoing migration, and about creating a better, healthier life for yourself by creating and monitoring interventions.