Hey everyone, I’m looking for a driving journal app, to track when, to/from where and which distance I drive.

Ideally I’d like for it to be FOSS, but if there are decent Closed Source apps I’m ok with it too (I’d just block Network Access in Graphene OS then).

This post (not mine) has pretty much my ideal criteria, but sadly didn’t get any answers: https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/88349/drivers-logbook-app-for-android-foss

Unlike the above post, I don’t want this for tax purposes etc., but rather just to understand where all my distance driven comes from.

Edit: I’ve done some more research and haven’t found anything, for now I’ll just use an OnlyOffice spreadsheet. If I find the time, I might try developing an app for this at some point.

Edit 2: After developing my app for a week and then showing it to a friend, he instantly found exactly what I was working on…

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liefers.driverslogpro

  • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’d automate the shit out of this one if I were to write an app.

    thinking of something like this one

    • using phones google location for tracking (or something else)
    • hava a Bluetooth beacon in the car
    • each time you get in the car, beacon connects to phone
    • app “tracks” the collected location data as “driving”
    • eco_game@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yeah, I would just use Connected to Car BT?

      I have so many ideas but so little time to properly look into Kotlin and Android dev :/

      Some other ideas I had:

      • maybe also track how much I pay for parking tickets
        • notification if I’m still not driving and my ticket is about to expire
        • ocr for parking tickets
      • automatic prompt, something like Hey, you just drove x km and seem to have arrived, What do you want to call this trip?
      • …
    • DrDominate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      Another option is You could use an NFC tag placed inside the car instead. Scan to toggle recording.