Meridian
A private work journal that automatically captures activity, explains time spent, and drafts project updates locally.
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Product Overview
What is Meridian?
Meridian is an open-source desktop work journal for knowledge workers and software teams. It records work activity on-device to show how time was spent across tasks, context switches, and applications. The product connects daily activity to project work, highlights estimate overruns and blockers, maintains a searchable record of decisions, and drafts status updates for approval before sending them to supported project-management tools. Meridian is free, MIT-licensed, and designed so capture, analysis, and journal data remain on the user’s device.
Key Features
Automatic Work Journal
Captures the shape of a workday automatically, including tasks worked on, time allocation, and context switching.
Work-Time Explanations
Connects actual effort with estimates and outcomes to explain delays, overruns, and unfinished work.
Approval-Based Status Updates
Drafts task-specific project updates from completed work, while requiring user approval before posting.
Searchable Daily History
Keeps a persistent journal of worklogs, decisions, and accomplishments that can be revisited by date.
Local-First Privacy
Runs capture, analysis, and storage on the device, with app exclusions, pause controls, and deletion options.
Project Tool Integrations
Supports Jira, Linear, GitHub Projects, Azure DevOps, and Trello for associating work with project tasks.
Use Cases
- Daily Work Review : Individual contributors can see where their day went and identify work that was completed but easily forgotten.
- Engineering Status Reporting : Developers can turn actual implementation work, debugging, and performance improvements into concise project updates.
- Estimate Retrospectives : Teams can compare planned and actual effort to understand scope changes, blockers, and recurring delivery issues.
- Personal Work Documentation : Professionals can maintain a searchable private record of decisions, progress, and accomplishments for later reference.
- Project Management Updates : Team members can prepare updates for Jira, Linear, GitHub Projects, Azure DevOps, or Trello without manually reconstructing their day.
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