DailyLife is a personal life journal and productivity app for Android. It captures thoughts, notes, tasks, reminders, photos, videos, audio recordings, locations, and PDFs in a single unified timeline. With recurring reminders, location-based triggers, speech-to-text, S3-compatible cloud backup, and full local encryption, it serves as a private and extensible daily companion.
- Ten item types: Thought, Note, Task, Reminder, Photo, Video, Audio, Location, PDF, and Mixed
- Quick-add from anywhere with automatic content type inference from pasted text and URIs
- Share intent ingestion — receive text, images, videos, audio, and PDFs from other apps
- Full-text search with type filter, tag filter, date range, favorites, and archived items
- Favorites and archive system for organizing entries
- Status tracking: Open → In Progress → Done
- Recurring task support with configurable schedules
- Completion streaks and history tracking
- Daily, weekly, specific-day, monthly, and monthly Nth-day-of-week recurrence
- Location-based geofence triggers (arrival / departure) via Play Services
- AlarmManager-based exact scheduling with boot-completed receiver
- In-app camera for photos and video recording
- Audio recording with waveform generation and thumbnails
- Location entries with interactive OpenStreetMap display (osmdroid)
- On-device speech-to-text transcription
- Chronological timeline view as the main screen
- Graph/stats visualization screen
- Full-screen media viewer with horizontal pager navigation and shared element transitions
- Video thumbnail extraction via Coil video decoder
- Share and delete capabilities for any media entry
- Biometric lock (fingerprint / face) via AndroidX Biometric
- SQLCipher encrypted local database
- AES media file encryption backed by Android Keystore
- S3-compatible cloud backup with optional encryption and AWS V4 signing
- Material 3 Dynamic Color with automatic palette generation (Android 12+)
- Custom light and dark fallback palettes — calm, nature-inspired steel blue, forest green, and warm copper tones
- Edge-to-edge display support
- Smooth transitions with
SharedTransitionLayoutand micro-animations - Onboarding flow for first-time users
- Dedicated focus timer screen with session tracking
- Quick-add sheet for fast entry creation
- Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Material 3
- MVVM architecture with Kotlin Coroutines and StateFlow
- Hilt for dependency injection
- Room with SQLCipher for encrypted local storage
- CameraX, Media3 ExoPlayer, Coil for media
- OSMDroid for OpenStreetMap integration
- Play Services Location for geofencing
- OkHttp for S3-compatible cloud backup
- Android 10 (API 29) or later
- JDK 17 (for building the Android app)
- Android Studio or Gradle CLI
- JDK 17
# Build debug APK
./gradlew assembleDebug
# Build signed release APK (requires keystore environment variables)
# KEYSTORE_PASSWORD, KEY_ALIAS, KEY_PASSWORD must be set
./gradlew assembleRelease| Permission | Purpose |
|---|---|
CAMERA |
Photo and video capture |
RECORD_AUDIO |
Audio recording and speech-to-text |
INTERNET |
S3 cloud backup and map tiles |
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION / ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION |
Location entries and geofencing |
ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION |
Location-based reminder triggers |
POST_NOTIFICATIONS |
Reminder and task notifications |
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED |
Re-schedule reminders after device reboot |
SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM |
Exact alarm delivery for reminders |
FOREGROUND_SERVICE / FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE |
Background media processing |
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE |
Legacy file access (API ≤ 28) |
app/src/main/java/com/raulshma/dailylife/
├── DailyLifeApplication.kt # @HiltAndroidApp, loads SQLCipher native library
├── MainActivity.kt # Entry point, share intent handling, lock/onboarding
├── data/
│ ├── DailyLifeRepository.kt # Repository interface
│ ├── RoomBackedDailyLifeRepository.kt # Room-based production implementation
│ ├── InMemoryDailyLifeRepository.kt # In-memory test implementation
│ ├── backup/ # S3-compatible backup (AWS V4 signing, OkHttp)
│ ├── db/ # Room database, DAOs, entities, migrations
│ ├── media/ # Thumbnails, waveform, PDF preview, URI resolver
│ └── security/ # AES encryption, Android Keystore, media encrypt/decrypt
├── domain/
│ ├── DailyLifeModels.kt # Domain models (LifeItem, state, enums)
│ ├── ContentInference.kt # Auto-detect item type from text/URIs
│ └── S3BackupModels.kt # Backup settings and result types
├── di/
│ └── DailyLifeModule.kt # Hilt DI module (DB, repos, services)
├── notifications/
│ ├── ReminderScheduler.kt # AlarmManager-based scheduling
│ ├── ReminderPlanning.kt # Reminder recurrence calculation
│ ├── GeofenceManager.kt # Play Services geofencing
│ └── GeofenceReceiver.kt # Geofence event broadcast receiver
└── ui/
├── DailyLifeApp.kt # Main app composable (navigation, screens)
├── DailyLifeViewModel.kt # Central ViewModel with StateFlow
├── TimelineScreen.kt # Main chronological timeline view
├── GraphViewScreen.kt # Stats and graph visualization
├── FocusTimerScreen.kt # Focus timer with session tracking
├── QuickAddScreen.kt # Quick-add bottom sheet
├── SettingsScreen.kt # App settings (backup, notifications, lock)
├── LockScreen.kt # Biometric lock screen
├── OnboardingScreen.kt # First-run onboarding flow
├── theme/ # Material 3 theme, color palettes, animations
├── components/ # Shared Compose components (shimmer, card, ripple)
├── capture/ # Camera, audio recorder, location picker, speech
└── detail/ # Item detail view and completion history
This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 — see the LICENSE file for details.