Updating

Because you run Trading Journal AI from a cloned repository, updating means pulling the latest code and refreshing dependencies. Your journal data is separate from the code, so updates don't overwrite your entries.

Update your copy

From inside the trading-journal folder:

git pull
npm install
npm run dev

git pull fetches the newest version, npm install picks up any new or changed dependencies, and npm run dev starts the app again. Re-running the installer (./install-trading-journal.sh) also works and will walk you through the same steps.

If a release changes the database

Occasionally an update changes how data is stored. If the app mentions a pending database change after you pull, apply it with:

npm run db:migrate

Back up first

Your entries live in data/journal.db, which isn't touched by git pull. Even so, the safest habit before a large update is to copy the data/ folder somewhere safe. If anything goes wrong, restoring that folder gets you back to a working state.