Digital Diary

The Digital Diary offers a new way to record and reflect on your life through a digitized diary that offers a "Memories" system and built-in language analysis.

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Inspiration

The inspiration for this project came when I was presented with Carelon Digital Platforms challenge regarding building a technology that would address a person's health. While Digital Diary may not seem like your conventional "digital medicine," it offers a way to express yourself and "let off some steam." Rather than mentally bottling up your life's traumas, you have the opportunity to confront them in your personal Digital Diary, as well as track how you're doing in life. This technology seeks to address the issue for those who feel as if they have no one to talk to, and would benefit from putting into words the highs and lows of their lives.

What it does

The Digital Diary offers a platform where users can record daily snapshots of their lives. A daily notification is sent to the user to record a diary entry, where they are asked to provide a brief "Subject" for the day, as well as a traditional "diary-like-entry" description detailing more specifics of the day. On the backend, once a diary entry is created, the Digital Diary automatically carries out natural language processing to and analyzes the words your put down in your diary, and returns the results of this analysis in order to help you better confront the mental stresses and traumas in your life.

How we built it

I utilized a conventional MEAN stack, using Google Cloud's NLP API for language analysis.

Challenges we ran into

Understanding how to use the tools and technology for this project were definitely my biggest challenges, especially given I have never built on a full, independent project with the MEAN stack or used the NLP API before.

Accomplishments that we're proud of and what I learned

I'm proud of how quickly I learned these technologies. Just from the 36-hour duration that this hackathon was, I feel significantly more confident and familiar with these very well-known technologies, and I know this knowledge will be extremely useful for me throughout life.

What's next for Digital Diary

Being that I carried out this project independently, there's clearly a lot of aspects that I didn't get to complete. I was only really able to build out a basic, functional frontend for the project, and didn't really get a chance to build the main functionality and "cool" features that I hoped to implement; therefore, the future for Digital Diary would likely start with building these out.

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