Comment by wluer

I've been working on Moments (textmoments.com). It's a journaling app that you text instead of open.

I always had the same problem with journaling. My best thoughts always came to me at inconvenient times like when I was on the subway or with friends.

So about a year and a half ago I hacked together a journaling solution for myself. I set up a Twilio phone number, a server to receive the messages, logged the message to a txt file, and committed it to a GitHub repo. It was extremely simple, but it worked surprisingly well for me. The friction was low enough that I actually used it every day... and I had perfectly timestamped journal entries with full version control.

Over time I wanted photos and voice notes, plus a better way to visualize everything. So I rebuilt this it into something more robust that other people can actually use.