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

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

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Post by fiala__ »

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?

Many years ago I used Omm for a bit, it's pretty good if you really want to concentrate https://ommwriter.com/

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

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Post by windexh8er »

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.

You could just run it in a container with a bind mount for the database path to a file path that's kept in sync with SyncThing or other alternatives.

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

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Post by ntrue »

Haven't used the app yet but the "Facebook"ish theme and illustration-style on the first page made me recoil reflexively. Maybe because privacy is a big concern when it comes to journals and we have come to associate that colorscheme with distrust and privacy breaches lately. I think tweaking the colors and illustration style might help.

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Post by mcless »

_mischief wrote: post #19
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/ ?

I thought the parent comment was referring to real offline journals made of treeware.

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

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Post by ntrue »

ntrue wrote: post #23

Haven't used the app yet but the "Facebook"ish theme and illustration-style on the first page made me recoil reflexively. Maybe because privacy is a big concern when it comes to journals and we have come to associate that colorscheme with distrust and privacy breaches lately. I think tweaking the colors and illustration style might help.

Works really well and feels super smooth. Really great.

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

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Post by aosaigh »

This is great, but I'd be worried about easily losing all of my journals by simply clearning my browser history and wiping everything unknowingly. Any plans to wrap this as an Electron app or something that could be installed on the desktop?

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

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Post by hiddevb »

tomerbd wrote: post #25

Any tips for a server side developers on how to create similar user interface? how was it created? fully custom? based on some frameworks?

The project is open source, the github link is on the same page. It's build with Preact, a small react alternative.
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