### Journey

### App Overview

Journey is a web and Alexa journaling application that promotes mental wellbeing. Based on the principles of the five minute journal, users are prompted to record thoughts that inspire gratitude and an optimistic growth mindset. The app is augmented by natural language processing abilities to provide the user an additional perspective in their reflections.

### Journal Input Methods

Journal entries are visualized on a scrolling chronology on the web front end as per below. The eventual progression is to have voice be the primary journaling input vehicle (currently enabled by Alexa, with other services - Google Home, Siri - to come) with ancillary input methods via web (functional) and mobile (pending).

### Dashboard Analytics

There is a dashboard with several clickable pages of analytics and D3-enabled graphical representations that surface results from the user's journal entries.


### Dependencies

+ [Alexa Skills Kit](https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit)
+ [React](https://facebook.github.io/react)
+ [D3](https://d3js.org)
+ [Passport](https://nodejs.org) - Facebook, Amazon
+ [Node](https://nodejs.org)
+ [Express](https://nodejs.org)
+ [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com)
+ [Nexmo](https://www.nexmo.com)
+ [Google Cloud Natural Language API](https://cloud.google.com/natural-language)
# Journey

## App Overview

Journey is a web and Alexa journaling application that promotes mental wellbeing. Based on the principles of the five minute journal, users are prompted to record thoughts that inspire gratitude and an optimistic growth mindset. The app is augmented by natural language processing abilities to provide the user an additional perspective in their reflections.

## Journal Input Methods

Journal entries are visualized on a scrolling chronology on the web front end as per below. The eventual progression is to have voice be the primary journaling input vehicle (currently enabled by Alexa, with other services - Google Home, Siri - to come) with ancillary input methods via web (functional) and mobile (pending).

![journal page](https://github.com/simeonlee/journey/blob/master/images/app/journal-page.png "Journey journal page")

## Dashboard Analytics

There is a dashboard with several clickable pages of analytics and D3-enabled graphical representations that surface results from the user's journal entries.

## Dependencies

+ [Alexa Skills Kit](https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit)
+ [React](https://facebook.github.io/react)
+ [D3](https://d3js.org)
+ [Passport](https://nodejs.org) - Facebook, Amazon
+ [Node](https://nodejs.org)
+ [Express](https://nodejs.org)
+ [MySQL](https://www.mysql.com)
+ [Nexmo](https://www.nexmo.com)
+ [Google Cloud Natural Language API](https://cloud.google.com/natural-language)
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