DoomsWriter

Note: Still under active development. Expect breaking changes and use with caution.

Hello

DoomsWriter (DW) is a minimalistic journal app that destroys the text and retains the emotion.

It started as a way for me to learn React but I extended it a bit to embed small DistilRoberta model to do real-time emotion detection. The app uses transformers.js to serve the model on the edge using ONNX Runtime and WASM so nothing leaves your system.

Features

The app is pretty basic and has two main views (or Components 😉️) -- Editor and Calendar.

• Type the text in the Editor and get real-time emotion recognition (this can be turned off if its too distracting).
• Capture the emotion and clear the text by pressing Cmd + enter.
• View the emotions in the Calendar. You can click the dates in the calendar to view previous emotions.

Keyboard Shortcuts

DWriter is mostly keyboard driven.

• The shortcut Cmd + ; toggles between Editor and Calendar views.
• The shortcut Cmd + enter captures the current text.

Emotions

DWriter only captures the emotions of your journal entry and forgets the actual text. Emotions are based on Ekman's 6 basic emotions and a neutral (model card)

1. anger 🤬
2. disgust 🤢
3. fear 😨
4. joy 😀
5. neutral 😐
6. sadness 😭
7. surprise 😲

Inside

The frontend is written in plain-ol Javascript and React. I took a gamble and used Tauri instead of Electron for the multi-platform support, and so far it has been very plesant!

Installation

Note: Currently, we are in pre-release and the app is only supported on MacOS. Linux and Windows support on its way soon!

MacOS

You can download the .dmg from the releases. If you find this sus, you can also build from source.

Building from source

You need to have node and tauri installed.

• To install dependendies, run npm install from the root directory.

• npm run dev opens the app in dev mode with vite HR.

• npm run build creates the dist folder

• npm run tauri dev opens the app in Tauri dev mode (which is basically Edge browser)

• npm run tauri build to build the tauri app. The packaged app can be found in the releases folder (src-tauri/target/release/bundle/)

Credits

The app uses j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base with ONNX runtime and WASM to serve. Leave them a ❤️️!

Am still learning React and benefited greatly from Full Stack Open course from UoH, specially for introducing me to vite!

And of course, GH Co-pilot, where will I be without you 😍️