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
Notesnook might work for you.
Joplin synced to a self-hosted sync server with E2EE on, that’s my setup. Works great.
Came here to say exactly that!
For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.
I’m not one for journalling but I was looking for notes and I didn’t like Logseq since it was to journally for me. https://logseq.com/
Bro, u may like DD-DigitalDiary. It is SocialMedialy. Kind of like BeReal or Instagram 😊
It sounds like you might like Logsec. I use it for general note-keeping, but I think it would work really well as a journal because it defaults to a new time-stamped entry when you open it. These entries are presented chronology like a journal, and you can create links to other pages if you want to dive further into a specific topic.
Also, all entries are saved as standard markdown files, so they would be easy to adapt to another software later if needed. This also makes it really easy to sync data between devices with something like Syncthing.
What about just a simple paper notebook?
(I’m not trying to be a jerk)
Tried it. Didn’t work. Bcoz we have to write. More work. I want something easy. Like Speech To Text. When a paper notebook comes with Speech to Text i will definately get onboard
TrilliumNext Notes is a great one.
Standard Notes. You can even self host.
I do pen and paper.
I also write cursive as an obfuscation tactic. Makes it harder for the younger generations to figure out what my thoughts were.
I can only read it from a distance, but being bilingual doesn’t help either
I learned Pitman shorthand. It combined with cursive English makes it so only a few elderly women and I can read my diary.
I have tried all the biggest name tools, but have concluded that analog pen and paper work best
Especially if you care about security much@Sauron Joplin (mentioned earlier) is fantastic. I use Standard Notes. Big fan.
You know, the more i read the recomendations the more i am starting to like DD-DigitalDiary. There are a lot of issues with it. I am not saying there isnt. But its COOL. And Not Boring. Like Joplin has everything i want but it is super boring. Standard Notes is Not. It is Better. At least i guess similar to DayOne but with the Sync options which is pretty cool. But have you seen the UI/UX designs of DD-DigitalDiary. Like it looks more like Instagram than a normal journaling application. I Wish they make it OpenSource soon though
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Was going to say Obsidian, but upon verifying, realized that it’s not actually open source. Interesting.
Whilst not open source, I appreciate that the notes are locally stored in straightforward markdown. I no longer use Obsidian, but I appreciated how there was next to no platform lock-in (the only snag I experienced in moving to a different note taking approach was a couple of plugins that gave additional features. But that’s easy to avoid if portability of data is important)
If you like Obsidian and want open source, check out Logsec.
Jrnl on pc and sync the folder to my android and use markor there.
I discovered Trilium a couple days before discovering the project was dead. But here is TriliumNext now so it’s not that much of a problem (yay opensource!)
Works great on a computer, not as much on a phone. There are android apps to send directly something to it, but reading its content involves the webapp directly… which isn’t that bad but overall that’s not ideal. Still, after years of trying floss journaling apps one after another, it’s the only one I kept more than a couple weeks.
