FieldNote: An AI Nature Journal That Helps You Touch Grass 🌿
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass What I Built FieldNote is a nature journal built around one simple idea: spend less time looking at your screen and more time noticing the world around you. It gives you outdoor observation missions to try, from
Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass Submission 🌿
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass
FieldNote is a nature journal built around one simple idea: spend less time looking at your screen and more time noticing the world around you.
It gives you outdoor observation missions to try, from noticing patterns in leaves to listening for bird calls. Once you're outside, you can record what you actually experienced, including surprising details, sounds, colours, weather, and optional photos or sketches.
FieldNote can then help turn your raw observations into a structured journal entry while keeping your original notes available. It also includes an observation tally for recording things like birds, plants, and fungi.
The goal isn't to turn nature into another screen-time activity. It's to give people a small reason to step outside, slow down, pay attention, and build a personal record of the natural world around them.
Spend less screen time and more time in nature with locally generated observation missions and private field reflections.
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🌐 Live Deployed Web App: https://1d037bfe.fieldnote-byg.pages.dev/ (or https://fieldnote-byg.pages.dev/ )
FieldNote is a local-first, distraction-free outdoor observation journal powered by open-weight AI running directly on your computer via Ollama or at the edge on Cloudflare Pages. It is designed to help people spend more time observing living nature and less time staring at their phones.
You can try FieldNote immediately in your web browser:
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