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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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[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Linux -> Text Editor Offline -> Pen & Paper

Apostrophe might work? Not sure.

[–] Sauron@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recomend vscodium + github for Linux. Use it Myself But i am looking for Android primarily and not Linux And Pen & Paper. Tried it or 10yrs but i rarely wrote ever. Whenever i sat down to write i got bored and couldnt finish. Maybe its similar to attention disorder or something but writing using pen & paper is hard. Thats why i prefer SpeechToText (for Android) or at least a keyboard (for Linux / PC)

[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 1 points 20 hours ago

VS Codium is great! When I start a project, I always make a notes.txt to gather myself. As for P&P, the only way I have gotten myself to write on it is to get a small enough guy that I can keep it with me in one of my more common sitting spaces. Google is a creep, but Keep is simple. I've known a ton of people in the past who get a tape recorder and keep their notes on that. There's a FOSS voice recorder on F-Droid called Fossify Voice Recorder. I am not sure if that's what you want however.