Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#11

Post by anonymfus » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:10 AM UTC

So why it's web based?

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#12

Post by tga » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:43 AM UTC

anonymfus wrote: post #11

So why it's web based?

How about because it directly works on all platforms, mobile + desktop?

Also it looks like it's the platform the author was most proficient in, which is always a good reason when choosing your stack.

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#13

Post by jsjdnfmd » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:52 AM UTC

helb wrote: post #2

Looks great! My only concern now is that i won't use it a lot because typing on smartphones sucks…

At the same time, voice to text works like a charm on smartphones.

Especially for dairy-style note taking its really painless.

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#14

Post by SCdF » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:54 AM UTC

Is there a way to speed up the animations?

It may not be a real problem once I actually use it, instead of clicking around, but it makes it feel really sluggish at the moment.

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#15

Post by rudolph9 » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 11:54 AM UTC

Really nice! Please get rid of the fade in fade out animation every time I click something. That time adds up, time I could be writing in my journal ;D

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#16

Post by sandrobfc » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:01 PM UTC

It looks really great and I find it to be very fresh, but my main concern is... what happened the the real offline alternatives?

Except for the way in which you write and access JournalBook, how is it different from a real journal that we can carry everywhere?

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#17

Post by jug » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:14 PM UTC

One thing about this browser storage.. How do you migrate if/when you change computer? Is the procedure browser-dependent? I always saw those storages as a bit more troublesome than a flat CSV or something.

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#18

Post by Angostura » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

tga wrote: post #12

anonymfus wrote: post #11

So why it's web based?

How about because it directly works on all platforms, mobile + desktop? Also it looks like it's the platform the author was most proficient in, which is always a good reason when choosing your stack.

An RTF document would be more portable, surely?

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#19

Post by _mischief » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:19 PM UTC

sandrobfc wrote: post #16

It looks really great and I find it to be very fresh, but my main concern is... what happened the the real offline alternatives? Except for the way in which you write and access JournalBook, how is it different from a real journal that we can carry everywhere?

> real offline alternatives

How about https://tiddlywiki.com/ ?

Re: Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, personal journal app

#20

Post by Timpy » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 12:20 PM UTC

jug wrote: post #17

One thing about this browser storage.. How do you migrate if/when you change computer? Is the procedure browser-dependent? I always saw those storages as a bit more troublesome than a flat CSV or something.

It looks like there's a 'download data' button for this