https://github.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper

ThotKeeper — cross-platform personal daily journaling
https://github.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper

cross-platform journaling python-programming-language wxpython xml-storage-format

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ThotKeeper — cross-platform personal daily journaling

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper
• Owner: cmpilato
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2015-03-12T18:48:58.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-02-11T03:58:28.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-11T04:19:56.801Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: cross-platform, journaling, python-programming-language, wxpython, xml-storage-format
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 755 KB
• Stars: 30
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 14
• Open Issues: 12
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGES
  • License: LICENSE

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## ThotKeeper — cross-platform personal daily journaling ##

ThotKeeper is a simple, open source, cross-platform, daily journal

application.

ThotKeeper is written in the Python programming language and runs on

many different platforms. It's built around the wxPython toolkit,

which uses native widgets on the various platforms. That means that

when you run ThotKeeper on a Windows machine, it looks like a native

Windows application; when running under Linux, it looks like a

Linux/GTK application.

## Features ##

  * Cross-platform functionality with native widgets

  * Simple, easy-to-navigate interface

  * XML storage format

  * Support for multiple entries per day

  * Per-entry authors

  * Hierarchical tag support

## Screenshots ##

(These screenshots are of ThotKeeper 0.1.)

| **Windows** | **Ubuntu Linux** |

|:------------|:-----------------|

| ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper/main/www/thotkeeper-win32.jpg)| ![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper/main/www/thotkeeper-linux.jpg) |

## What You Need ##

To run ThotKeeper, you need a few bits of software:

  * [ThotKeeper](https://github.com/cmpilato/thotkeeper/releases) —

    This one's obvious, right?

  * [Python](http://www.python.org/) — the Python programming language

  * [wxPython](http://www.wxpython.org/) — Python interfaces to the

    wxWidgets cross-platform GUI library

For a complete list of dependecies (required and optional) and the

specific versions thereof that ThotKeeper needs, see the

[INSTALL.md](./INSTALL.md) file in the root of your ThotKeeper package.

## History ##

ThotKeeper was created as a labor of love by [C. Michael

Pilato](http://www.cmichaelpilato.com) for his wife, Amy. Amy was

recording journal entries on paper or in an endlessly growing

Microsoft Word document. Each of these methods has its pros and cons,

but the cons frightened Mike. Paper is charming and personal, but gets

lost or damaged easily. Word documents are digital and easy to backup,

but bind the user to the availability of software which parses that

proprietary format. Mike figured that with a simple XML storage format

and enough GUI goodness to navigate the hunks of information in the

file, Amy might actually be encouraged to write more. So in 2004, he

began working on ThotKeeper.

Others have since come along to help Mike develop ThotKeeper.