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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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[–] VinS@sh.itjust.works 9 points 20 hours 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.

[–] Sauron@europe.pub 4 points 20 hours ago (1 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

[–] VinS@sh.itjust.works 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Does a simple file not good? Missing the "not read by anyone" So you need a lock/encryption on it?

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

Plain text is how I have it set up. I have the files named by date in one folder (made effortless with my small script) and a plain text editor on my phone, also pointed to a specific folder. The setup is pretty much ready for Syncthing if I wanted to automate syncing, but I haven't bothered yet.

[–] Sauron@europe.pub 5 points 18 hours ago

You Know, I think you got a point 👍