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Looking for a Safe, Super Open Source (and also cheap if not free) Journaling app. Any Recomendations? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 day ago by Sauron@europe.pub to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day 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..

[–] Sauron@europe.pub 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I tried Joplin. I found it ...... (no offence) but Boring. Like a grey screen. You khow, like maybe it has everything. But mindnummingly dull. Like i am coming from DD-DigitalDiary so maybe its just me. But .... like it has animations. But so so (youknow) boring Why cant a Journaling app look cool. Does it have to put me to sleep (Again no offence to anyone who loves Joplin)

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 23 hours ago

Haha no worries, I know what you mean. I love Joplin and personally like the style, but it is bland compared to alot of other apps. Hoping that it will evolve and offer more themes :)