31. Journal/Diary Applications

This chapter looks at different open source journal/diary applications. As usual we look both at E2EE and non E2EE versions. These applications are meant to provide you with an oversight of your thoughts, the things you did during the day, how you felt, etcetera. Also there will be apps that are local only i.e just work on your phone for instance or once that work via your server that can be accessed on multiple devices and used by multiple users. In this case it is especially necessary that your data is E2EE, since you don't want someone else reading your most personal notes. However, if you host your own server at home then you can go with some beautiful journal applications that are not E2EE.

At this moment the only E2EE encrypted open source diary apps would be Notesnook and Joplin ;) However, I would say they are more focused on being a note taking app with folders, sub folders for studying and developing. So far the best project in my opinion is Journiv that would be most focused on your personal life/diary format, but unfortunately it is not E2EE at this moment. However, if you are self hosting this obviously does not matter ;)