- Inkly is a journaling app designed to build and maintain the habit of journaling with a focus on mental health. Ease of use is a distinguishing feature; the app starts with a blank canvas and offers structured prompts as needed.
- Aims to make journaling habit-forming and simplify the process of mental unloading.
- Adds a social element by allowing you to remind friends to journal. This feature facilitates mutual accountability and offers positive reinforcement through sticker sharing.
- Mental Health
- Habit Formation
- Social Engagement
- Streaks: Keep track of how consistent you are with your journaling. Streaks are mainly for positive reinforcement.
- Friends: Add friends to build new habits together. You can also send them stickers to remind them to journal.
- Stickers: Send stickers to friends to encourage them to journal. All users have access to a collection of pre-designed stickers, while custom stickers are a premium feature.
- Implement LLM to predict user mood based on sentiment analysis of thought dumps and follow-ups.
- Allow gradual removal of stickers from profiles to avoid clutter. Stickers will be removed 7 days after being received.
- Built with Swift UI frontend, Firebase backend.
- Authentication via Firebase Authentication.
- Utilizes Langchain and GPT-3.5 Turbo for dynamic journaling prompts.
- Backend hosted on Heroku.
- Data privacy is maintained; none of the journaling activities are shared outside the app.
- Firebase Auth
- Firebase Realtime Database
- Swift UI
- Flask
- Langchain: Used for multiple LLM features like sentiment analysis and dynamic prompts.
- Heroku: Scalable backend hosting.
- Swift UI
- Firebase Account
- Langchain Dependencies
- Gunicorn
- Jaiswal, Shivanee (sjaiswal45@gatech.edu)
- Garg, Tanya (tgarg40@gatech.edu)
- Florea, Alexandru (aflorea6@gatech.edu)
- Pai, Pratiksha (ppai33@gatech.edu)
- All members contributed equally to the project.