Pile is a desktop app for reflective journaling. It's about simplicity, keeping your data local, and enhancing your journaling experience with AI.
- Local Storage: Keep your journal entries stored securely on your computer, offering you greater flexibility and ownership.
- Markdown Support: Entries are stored as markdown files (*currently includes some HTML), keeping your journal clean and accessible with tools other than Pile.
- Create Piles: Organize your thoughts by creating separate Piles for different aspects of your day-to-day life, or use one Pile as a general journal for everything.
- Download the latest version of Pile by going to the Pile releases page.
- Open the
.zip
or.dmg
file and drag the application to the destination of your choice (optional), such as yourApplications/
folder. - Finally open the application, create a
New Pile
, and start your reflective journey.
Enhance your journaling experience by integrating OpenAI's GPT AI reflections into Pile. If you have access to OpenAI's GPT-4 API, you can use your API key to:
- Reflect on text: Click "reflect" on any written text to get AI-generated insights and thoughts.
👉 To do this, head over to platform.openai.com/api-keys and create a new API key. Click the settings icon on the top-right corner of Pile and enter your secret API key into the API key field.
If you'd like to contribute to Pile, feel free to fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request. Contributions are welcomed and appreciated, however this is an experimental project, so any changes and new features are merged into this distribution of Pile at my discretion.
For a detailed guide on contributing, read the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
Many thanks and appreciation to all these people and projects for their contributions to Pile.
- Zach Bogart: for the icon design.
- Electron react boilerplate: for making it easier to launch desktop apps.