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

Post by grounded042 » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

dmix wrote: post #82

sephoric wrote: post #61

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In my mind, this completely contradicts "privacy centric" and "offline first", which to me are very important goals. Even though the notes in the app are only ever stored on my computer, and even though it's metadata being sent, I would rather offline and privacy focused apps not use my network at all. That's what I aspire to anyway when I write apps for sephware.com, and I wish everyone would do the same.

Your Autumn app looks pretty sweet by the way. I've been looking for a simple WM on Mac. The other ones are always needlessly complicated (looking at you Hammerspoon). Especially after using the beautifully minimal bspwm [1] + sxhkd on Linux for years. But re: zero analytics, aren't you curious how many people use the app at a minimum? [1] https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 9:18 PM UTC

O_H_E wrote: post #80

rekshaw wrote: post #42

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Thanks. Are you planning on selling this as a service? Maybe with blockchain verification? How about creating a marketplace so that others can share journal templates? Is there iCloud backup? Would be nice to have private messages between members and social status that people can "like". :-)

A simple "/s" or "/sarcasm" as the internet is not particularly good at transferring voice, tone, and feelings even with a good connection :) EDIT: guess I should have "/humor"

Post by oldsj » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 9:53 PM UTC

noir_lord wrote: post #90

cloverich wrote: post #58

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There are some journaling apps that target this mindset. This one[1] was posted a few days ago (in comments) and stores your notes as markdown in plain text. There are others (I am working on one as well, but its not ready). If the app forced a particular naming convention (e.g. 2018-05-10.md) would that be too restrictive? [1]: ( https://github.com/fabiospampinato/notable ).

vscode-journal and vscode-journal-view (gives you a calendar view in the side bar) do what I need and are offline. I have vscode open anyway so path of least resistance applies.

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

Post by sephoric » Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 10:47 PM UTC

voltaireodactyl wrote: post #98

sephoric wrote: post #85

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Yeah, I sometimes wonder about those statistics. But I'm not curious enough to invade people's privacy or use any of the other modern marketing manipulations to boost sales. I think if you make a thing and pour love into it, people will love using it, and maybe even want to give you a little money. I've seen this first hand many times and been on both sides of it. That's why I like Show HN, and give apps like Journal…

Just wanted to say — I’ve been using Autumn for about a week and it may just be the perfect window manager. And I’ve tried them all. BST Hammerspoon Moom Flexiglass Layouts Alfred Div MaxSnap Spectacle Magnet SizeWell Etc etc All of them. So thank you for the hard work. And I can’t tell you how delighted I was to find THIS point of view from you out in the wild. Agreed entirely.