Reflect Diary

Author: Nadezhda Grishina
Last Update: June 5, 2025

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💻 About the Project

Reflect Diary is a personal reflection journal web app where users can write about their day, track goals, rate their mood, and answer reflective questions. It combines structure and freedom — helping users build healthy reflection habits.

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🪩Features

• 📝 User registration & login (Spring Security)
• 📅 Create / edit / delete daily entries
• 🎯 Create and manage personal goals
• 😊 Mood and score tracking for each day
• ❓ Random reflection question in each entry
• ✅ Mark goals as completed

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🛠 Technologies Used

• Backend: Java 21, Spring Boot, Spring Security
• Frontend: Thymeleaf templates
• Database: MySQL
• Build Tool: Maven

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🚀 Running the Project

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/nadyagrishina/reflect-diary.git

2. Open in IntelliJ or another IDE
3. Configure the database in application.properties:

   spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/reflect_diary
   spring.datasource.username=your_username
   spring.datasource.password=your_password
   spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=update

4. Run the project ( via ReflectDiaryApplication class)
5. Open browser at:
   http://localhost:8080
6. Use /register to create an account, then /login to access your diary.

🖼️ Screenshots

🌿 Dashboard (Goals & Entries overview)

The main dashboard displays user profile info, current goals, and the latest journal entries:

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📖 Entry Details

Each entry includes your mood, reflections, difficulties, highlights, and tomorrow's plan — with optional tags:

🤝 Contributions Pull requests are welcome. Feel free to fork the repo and suggest improvements or enhancements.