📦 Digital Memory Vault

A secure and user-friendly Spring Boot web application that helps users preserve, organize, and revisit their precious memories by storing photos, videos, documents, and personal notes in one place.

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✨ Features

👤 User Management

• User Registration
• User Login
• Session-based Authentication
• Secure User-specific Memory Access

📁 Memory Management

• Add Memories
• Edit Memories
• Delete Memories
• View Memory Details
• Upload Photos
• Upload Videos
• Upload Documents
• Store Personal Notes

⭐ Smart Features

• ❤️ Mark Memories as Favorites
• 🔒 Time Capsule Memories
• 📅 On This Day Memories
• 🕒 Recent Memories Dashboard
• 📆 Memory Timeline
• 🔍 Search Memories by Title

📊 Dashboard

• Total Memories
• Favorite Memories Count
• Photo Count
• Video Count
• Document Count
• Note Count
• Locked Memories Count
• Recent Memories
• On This Day Memories

🛡 Security & Validation

• Session-based Authentication
• User-specific Memory Protection
• File Upload Validation
• Form Validation
• Secure File Storage

🎨 User Interface

• Responsive Bootstrap 5 Design
• Modern Dashboard
• Memory Cards
• Success Notifications
• Clean Navigation

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🛠 Technologies Used

Backend

• Java 24
• Spring Boot
• Spring MVC
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Security

Frontend

• Thymeleaf
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Bootstrap 5

Database

• MySQL

Build Tool

• Maven

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🗄 Database

Database: MySQL

Tables

• users
• memories

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📂 Project Structure

src
├── main
│   ├── java
│   │   └── com.jayanth.digitalmemoryvault
│   │       ├── controller
│   │       ├── dto
│   │       ├── entity
│   │       ├── repository
│   │       ├── security
│   │       ├── service
│   │       └── config
│   │
│   └── resources
│       ├── static
│       ├── templates
│       └── application.properties

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🏗 Architecture

Browser (Client)
        │
        ▼
Spring MVC Controllers
        │
        ▼
Service Layer
        │
        ▼
Repository Layer (Spring Data JPA)
        │
        ▼
MySQL Database

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🔄 Application Workflow

User
   │
   ▼
Register / Login
   │
   ▼
Dashboard
   │
   ├──────────────┐
   ▼              ▼
Add Memory    View Memories
   │              │
   ▼              ▼
Timeline     Time Capsules
   │              │
   └──────┬───────┘
          ▼
    Memory Details
          │
          ▼
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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Jayanth0018/digital_memory_vault.git

2. Open the Project

Import the project into your preferred IDE (IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, or VS Code).

3. Configure Database

Update the MySQL configuration in:

src/main/resources/application.properties

Example:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/digital_memory_vault
spring.datasource.username=YOUR_USERNAME
spring.datasource.password=YOUR_PASSWORD

4. Run the Application

Run the Spring Boot application.

5. Open in Browser

If you're using the default Spring Boot port:

http://localhost:8080

If you changed the port to 9090, use:

http://localhost:9090

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📸 Screenshots

Screenshots will be added after the final project presentation.

The application includes the following screens:

• 🏠 Home Page
• 👤 Register Page
• 🔐 Login Page
• 📊 Dashboard
• ➕ Add Memory
• 📂 Memory List
• 👁️ Memory Details
• 🕒 Memory Timeline
• 🔒 Time Capsules

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🎥 Project Demo

The application allows users to:

• Register and Login
• Upload memories (Images, Videos, Documents, Notes)
• Organize memories
• Search memories
• Mark favorites
• Create Time Capsules
• View memories on Timeline
• Revisit "On This Day" memories
• Manage personal digital memories securely

🔮 Future Enhancements

• Export Memories to PDF
• Calendar View
• Dark Mode
• Cloud Storage Integration
• Memory Sharing
• Email Notifications

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🔐 Environment Variables

The application uses environment variables in production.

Required variables:

SPRING_DATASOURCE_URL SPRING_DATASOURCE_USERNAME SPRING_DATASOURCE_PASSWORD

👥 Team

• Jayanth Kumar
• Dileep
• Sazida
• Ruthwika

Repository

Repository: https://github.com/Jayanth0018/digital_memory_vault

📄 License

This project is developed for educational purposes as part of a Java Full Stack college project.

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🌐 Live Demo

Digital Memory Vault is live on Railway:

https://your-railway-domain.up.railway.app

⭐ Acknowledgements

Special thanks to the Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, Bootstrap, and MySQL communities for providing excellent open-source tools and documentation.