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Captain's Log for Sailfish OS

A simple diary app for keeping track of your thoughts

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This repository contains the development of version 2.0.0 and upwards of Captain's Log. Previous versions were developed by the original author AlphaX2.

Features

  • lockscreen to restrict access
  • bookmark entries
  • add tags
  • browse your entries by different filters
  • export your data to different file formats

Note: Captain's Log can hide your entries behind a protection code but it's nothing special. Your data is neither encrypted nor otherwise protected against a bad guy with physical (or SSH) access to your device.

Planned features

  • attach images to your entries
  • include voice notes
  • improved translations

You can find screenshots here.

Permissions

Captain's Log requires the following Sailjail permissions:

  • Documents: required to export the database to different file formats

Help and support

You are welcome to leave a comment in the forum if you have any questions or ideas.

Translations

It would be wonderful if the app could be translated in as many languages as possible!

Translations status

Translations are managed using Weblate. Please prefer this over pull requests (which are still welcome, of course). If you just found a minor problem, you can also open an issue.

Manually updating translations

Please prefer using Weblate over this.

You can follow these steps to manually add or update a translation:

  1. If it did not exist before, create a new catalog for your language by copying the base file translations/harbour-captains-log.ts. Then add the new translation to harbour-captains-log.pro.
  2. Add yourself to the list of translators in TRANSLATORS.json, in the section extra.
  3. (optional) Translate the app's name in harbour-captains-log.desktop if there is a (short) native term for it in your language.

See the Qt documentation for details on how to translate date formats to your local format.

Building and contributing

Bug reports, and contributions for translations, bug fixes, or new features are always welcome!

  1. Clone the repository by running git clone --recursive https://codeberg.org/ichthyosaurus/harbour-captains-log
  2. Open harbour-captains-log.pro in QtCreator for Sailfish (SailfishOS SDK)
  3. To run on emulator, select the i486 target and press the run button
  4. To build for the device, select the aarch64 or armv7hl target and click “deploy all”; the RPM packages will be in the RPMS folder

If you contribute, please do not forget to add yourself to the list of contributors in qml/pages/AboutPage.qml!

Donations

Donate using Liberapay

I am always happy if you buy me a cup of coffee through Liberapay if you want to support my work.

Of course it would be much appreciated as well if you support this project by contributing to translations or code! See above how you can contribute 🎕.

Please consider also supporting the SailfishOS Community Team on Liberapay to reach more developers.

Anti-AI policy

Important

  • LLM/“AI”-generated contributions are forbidden.
  • Using this project in whole or in part for AI training or data mining is likewise forbidden.

Please be transparent, respect the Free Software community, and adhere to the licenses. This is a welcoming place for human creativity and diversity, but LLM/“AI”-generated slop is going against these values.

Apart from all the ethical, moral, legal, environmental, societal, social, political, technical, and overall human, reasons against LLMs/“AI”, I also simply don't have any spare time to review generated contributions.

See also this list for more reasons against supporting “AI”.

License

Copyright (C) 2020-2026 Mirian Margiani

Copyright (C) 2020 AlphaX2

Captain's Log is Free Software released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (or later). The source code is available on Codeberg. All documentation is released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 (or later).

Captain's Log and related materials must not be used for AI training and/or data mining.

This project follows the REUSE specification.