Something from Your Mind
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Minimalistic space for reflections, stored in your browser
Nick Mikulin

Something from Your Mind — Minimalistic space for reflections, stored in your browser

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A one-page space to collect your thoughts and revisit them for reflection. No sign-up, no sync. Choose your mood, add a tag, and write. The data is securely stored locally in your browser using IndexedDB and can be exported whenever needed.
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Nick Mikulin
I was looking for a minimalistic reflection app — something light and clean. No need for an account, no subscriptions, no affirmations or advice. Just a place to write things down as they appear in my head. Plus, it feels safer knowing my reflections aren’t uploaded anywhere. I couldn’t find anything simple enough, so I decided to create it myself over a weekend. Pure HTML/JS/CSS combined with the browser’s local IndexedDB. In the end, it took a weekend plus a couple of late evenings, but I’m glad it’s complete enough.
annedevj
💎 Pixel perfection
This is the cutest journaling reflection app, really clear and pretty, makes me relaxed and feel like in a safe space just looking at it 😄 Just one comment, when I added a prompt without picking an emoji first it took me a few seconds to understand why my comment wasn't saved, and that I needed to pick a mood first Otherwise I love the simplicity of it ❤️
Nick Mikulin
@annedevj Thanks a lot, Anne! If you feel this way, I’m confident that I’ve reached my goal 🙌 You’re not the first to mention the required mood selection, overlooked it, will fix!
Nick Mikulin
@annedevj Thanks again for mentioning this, I added a little shake animation to mood selection to show that it's required 🙌
Grigory Silanyan
Just wrote "this is awesome" in the journal and realized how awesome it actually is :D Good job and congratulations @nklmkln ! I genuinely love the concept behind SFYM and bookmarked it for my personal use! Good job again and good luck!
Nick Mikulin
@grigory_sl thanks, Grigory, means a lot!
Jackieline Cosares
I really appreciate the minimalistic approach and the focus on privacy, no sign-ups or syncing sounds perfect for keeping things personal. How customizable is it in terms of tags or moods?
HackerQED
Interesting local first design decisions, and a neat UI, makes me think about Excallidraw. Wish your product great growth and success
Aditya Maurya
the aesthetics are so good man, are you a developer or a designer, anyways it's a cool product and maybe someday someone will use this to write something fron their mind and that thought will someday be a product on product hunt 🤯
Nick Mikulin
@adxxtya Thanks! My full-time job is design, but I like to code a little in my free time 🙌
Chloé PAPEGHIN
Hey, love the idea behind your new app, so simple yet effective, it's amazing how you've made it real in just a weekend, I've been using it and really appreciate the focus on privacy and minimalism, any plans to add features like a dark mode or maybe a way to organize thoughts better perhaps through folders or tags, it's super useful as it is but I'm curious about what's next for it
Nick Mikulin
@chloeupmanrh Hello, thanks a lot for your feedback! Dark mode is already there, it turns on automatically depending on your device theme 🙌 As for tags, you can filter by pressing any existing tag in the feed on the right, which also works for mood. But I plan to add more complex search, filtering and mood calendar! The plan is just super carefully add features without breaking the original concept.
sylvain zircher
I love the simple and clean UI, congratulations @nklmkln ! This is very inspiring to see what can be accomplished by just using HTML/JS/CSS and IndexedDB. Great job!
Kyrylo Silin
Hey Nick, I like the minimalist approach here. Do you have any plans to add basic search functionality to find past entries more easily? Congrats on the launch!
Nick Mikulin
@kyrylosilin hello, Kyrylo! Thanks! For now I just use browser search with CMD+F because it’s all on one page, but I’m thinking about search options, little mood calendar and also date filtering. Figuring out how to do it elegantly enough so it’s still light one-pager
Star Boat
Love the concept of "Something from Your Mind"! The minimalistic design really stands out—it's so refreshing to see a tool that allows you to focus purely on your thoughts without distractions. Can’t wait to give it a try! 🌟
Frankie Amoah
This is the definition of simple! And simple wins anytime, any day Congratulations
Toshit Garg
Congratulations for launch of Something from Your Mind.....
Gil Zissu
I love the simplicity, the illustrations are also great! 👏
Shushant Lakhyani
Productivity enthusiasts would like using this
Kavya Tripathi
Minimalist design is sooo beautiful ✨ Congratulations
Richard Song
The focus on simplicity and privacy is spot-on, @nklmkln! "Something from Your Mind" is exactly what I needed to declutter my thoughts. I’m curious, do you have plans to integrate basic editing tools like bold or italic text to enhance the journaling experience while keeping it minimalistic?
Nick Mikulin
@renchu_song Richard, thanks! I did not do any formatting on purpose because it's more for writing down shorter thoughts and insights, but formatting tools are totally possible depending on users' feedback!
Konstantin Malkov
Love the simplicity of web app and mellow interface 😍
Nick Mikulin
@vctnson Thanks! I like the word mellow 😀
Congratulations! The minimalist design and local storage approach using IndexedDB are thoughtful touches that prioritize user privacy and simplicity. Are there plans to introduce additional features for categorizing or filtering thoughts, perhaps based on mood or tags, to enhance the reflective experience and make it even more personalized?
Nick Mikulin
@flowsz Thanks! There is an option right now to filter the feed by pressing any mood icon or any tag in the feed on the right. I plan to make it more visible and add more complex things like search and date filters 👀
toniko
💡 Bright idea
Love this minimalistic approach! The focus on keeping things simple and secure is just what I’ve been looking for. Any plans to support customize emoji?
Nick Mikulin
@toniko thanks! I had an idea of introducing themes where you could personalize emojis and colors a bit. Thanks for the feedback!
Liam Hampton
Another minimalistic note-taking tool, huh? Seems like this is just another version of Google Keep or Evernote but with less functionality, no sign-up and local storage sound nice but isn't really a unique selling point in 2023, curious how this is supposed to stand out, good luck with that.
Nick Mikulin
@cloudcraftsman thanks! Totally not trying to replace notes here, it’s just a fun and separate space purely for reflections with mood and tag filtering 🙌