# Aether Journals — Module Overview

**Status:** Active module
**Library:** `src/lib/ae_journals/`
**Routes:** `src/routes/journals/`

This module manages private personal journals and journal entries with offline-first behavior and Svelte 5 runes patterns.

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## Core Responsibilities

- Journal and journal-entry CRUD via V3 API wrappers.
- Dexie-backed local cache with liveQuery-driven UI updates.
- Private/passcode-aware access behavior.
- Entry editing flows including auto-save configuration.

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## Key Data Objects

- `journal`
- `journal_entry`

Common fields and behavior follow Aether object conventions (`code`, `name`, `enable`, `hide`, `priority`, `sort`, `cfg_json`, `data_json`).

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## Storage and Reactivity

- Local cache: Dexie tables in journals DB layer.
- UI reactivity: Svelte 5 runes (`$state`, `$derived`, `$effect`) plus liveQuery wrappers (`lq__*`, `lqw__*`).
- Persisted module settings: see config map.

Related config map:
- `documentation/MODULE__AE_Journals_Config_Map.md`

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## Access and Privacy

Journals contain private personal data. Treat all journal and journal-entry routes as authenticated/private content.

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## Related Docs

- `documentation/PROJECT__AE_UI_Journals_Module_Update_2026.md`
- `documentation/GUIDE__SvelteKit2_Svelte5_DexieJS.md`
- `documentation/GUIDE__AE_API_V3_for_Frontend.md`
- `documentation/BOOTSTRAP__AI_Agent_Quickstart.md`