Can I vibecode Diarly?

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Diarly's solo core is compact: build a local-first private journal app with fast capture, full-text search, backlinks, tags, and Markdown export. A competent builder can reach a useful personal version in one sitting, while the paid product mainly wins on polish, sync, importers.

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The Build Prompt

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Build a comprehensive, local-first personal journaling application that replicates the core loop and minimalist aesthetic of Diarly.
Use exactly this stack: Tauri 2 + React + TypeScript + SQLite + Tailwind CSS.

### Core Features & Functionality
1. **Markdown Editor**: Implement an advanced, distraction-free Markdown editor. Support standard formatting, checklists, image attachments, and inline tags.
2. **Local-First & Privacy**: Ensure the app is entirely local-first. Store all journal entries, tags, and settings in a local SQLite database using Tauri. No telemetry, ads, or mandatory cloud accounts.
3. **Organization & Views**: Provide multiple ways to view entries:
   - A chronological Timeline view of all entries.
   - A Calendar view showing days with entries.
   - A Gallery view for entries containing image attachments.
4. **Fast Capture**: Create a quick-entry modal or floating widget that allows users to capture thoughts instantly without opening the full application interface.
5. **Full-Text Search & Filtering**: Implement robust full-text search across all journal entries, along with filtering by tags and date ranges.
6. **Customization**: Support light and dark themes (Liquid Glass style if possible for a native macOS feel), custom fonts, and customizable layout density.
7. **Import & Export**: Build features to export all entries as Markdown files or PDFs, ensuring the user retains full control and portability of their data.

### Technical Requirements
- Start from an empty folder and create the complete, working project.
- Implement the smallest polished interface that completes the core loop end-to-end. Focus on a calm, intuitive, and premium design.
- Include clear empty states, loading indicators, validation logic, and error handling.
- Use accessible keyboard navigation, appropriate ARIA labels, focus states, and sensible contrast.
- Put any optional external credentials (e.g., if you add an optional AI assistant feature) in .env and provide .env.example.
- Write focused unit tests for the data model (SQLite schema and queries) and the most important workflows (creating and searching entries).
- Add one end-to-end smoke test that proves the core journaling loop works.
- Create a comprehensive README with setup instructions, permissions required by Tauri, architecture overview, data location, backup strategy, and limitations.
- Add standard scripts for install, development, test, build, and a production-style local run.
- Deliberately exclude conflict-safe multi-device sync and mature third-party integrations (like Apple Health) to keep the scope manageable for a single sitting.
- Run the tests and build the application before finishing, fixing any errors rather than merely describing them.
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What you lose

  • Hosted infrastructure and managed operations from Diarly
  • The original service's mature integrations and ecosystem
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