note: not a real therapist
This is a service for the signal messaging service that makes the "note to self" feature start to behave as your own personal therapist, that will nag you to write a journal entry at the end of each day.
I wanted to get better at keeping a diary, but always think its difficult to get started and keep it up as a habit. So I started creating a Signal-bot that would remind me to write in my journal and that would offer writing prompts and advice. As my reasoning for keeping a journal is for self-therapeutic and mental health reasons I found and included a ChatGPT personality based on therapeutic analysis.
The results are working for my personal use, might not be the best documented repository I have released.
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Rename
env.exampleto.envand enter the correct values for each field, only the API key for ChatGPT is neccessary for running the test command - for example if you don't want to use this as an signal agent. -
Dependencies
You'll need to install signal-cli on the same device and link or register an account, that accounts phone number must be added to the .env file.
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Install dependencies
npm ci
node index.mjs test
This does not require you to set up signal-cli, but you do need a OpenAI API Key.
node index.mjs start
Enjoy ❤️ Lyret