 In February 2011, it was announced that Journler would be open sourced.The source code is currently hosted on GitHub.In August 2015, Journler's creator wrote an article citing Howard Rheingold's 1985 book "Tools for Thought" and John Markoff's 2005 book "What the Dormouse Said", and explaining how he has come to understand Journler as a "tool for thought" in a tradition of computer-assisted intelligence augmentation dating back to computer science pioneers Vannevar Bush, J. C. R. Licklider, and Douglas Engelbart.