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Hey guys, i am planning to begin my Journaling journey starting today. Any recomendations? I have already tried DayOne and Journey Didn't like them Particularly. DayOne seems uncool and even though they claim, a little unsafe. Plus i once before lost all my journal entries in DayOne bcoz i didn't save the encryption keys in my GoogleDrive. Journey is Worse (my opinion). They keep on pushing me to buy their paid option which costs 4$ per month. Like WTF. Its just a Journaling app. I am not going to try Penzu because i have heard a lot of bad reviews on how they cheat people and stuff. Finally i landed on DD-DigitalDiary which isn't open source. Which Sucks. But at least isn't costing me like 50$ a month or anything. Its mostly free. But i am looking or something better. More specifically OpenSource, Free (or almost free) and idk, modern & sxy Like when will these huge companies understand. Not everything needs to be VC funded. Next i am launching my VC funded Venture backed Fried Eggs company

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I don't have an answer for you, but a dev for that DigitalDiary app posted earlier today looking for feature input and saying they are going to open source it in the next 2 months or something like that. I don't have a link to the post, sorry, but I just thought it might be helpful to know about

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't do journaling full time, but Joplin has been great. FOSS, cross-platform, allows you to pick sync target (if you want any, I use my cloud provider) and on top of it all it supports e2e encryption of your notes.

Nicest thing (personally): allows you to export markdown/html/pdf/etc..

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used to use RedNotebook[0] wayback when, but have since switched to Emacs and am therefore now an insufferable org-mode/roam user.

0: https://rednotebook.app/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Need something primarily in Android. I dont think rednotebook is available in Android

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What are you looking for features? A Simple text editor and saving as markdown is not good enough? Can save it in a cloud host.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I don't really care a lot about cloud. I like my journal entries to not get read by anyone. No server, nothing. Super secure, open source and free. Maybe if i provide my server URL it can store it over there

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