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Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by basch »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9

I love that you took the programmer equivalent of a writing cue and ran with it. And I think this is a really cool idea to explore. I know it's largely a one person experiment and not a real business, but some feedback > I won't sell your data and will be very personal with you. This isn't good enough anymore. You need to promise that my data won't ever _ever_ be sold. Especially since you're asking me to share my di…

Selling the company should count as selling the data unless the data gets scrubbed on company sale.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by rognjen »

kossnocorp wrote: post #19
rognjen wrote: post #14

I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.

It works well too! Too bad is not easy to fetch history.

In Gmail you can search by dates. And for convenience I've a filter for from me to me with journal title.

Stats wouldn't be possible (of the top of my head) but I don't care about that much.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by komali2 »

I really like the layout of the page and your manner of speaking. Both are web design ideals I strive for. I also want people to write more :)

Little nitpick - try out your signup page on Firefox mobile and you will see a one character width input field for the email input box :)

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by brootstrap »

kossnocorp wrote: post #19
rognjen wrote: post #14

I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.

It works well too! Too bad is not easy to fetch history.

The app is cool man good work! old school boy here made an vi alias to my journal.txt file and have been using it for 5+ years. alias opens the file in edit mode on a newline at the bottom. VI search lets me find whatever i need quickly all from the keyboard!

This whole 'email yourself as diary' seems like overkill to me when you could just write something yourself. Unless you are cool with sharing your diary with 3rd party services. Anyways it's still a cool little thing, just throwin my two cents.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by cosmojg »

artfulhippo wrote: post #7

>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.

Solution: use one of the hundreds of alternatives to Gmail.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by kossnocorp »

Waterluvian wrote: post #9

I love that you took the programmer equivalent of a writing cue and ran with it. And I think this is a really cool idea to explore. I know it's largely a one person experiment and not a real business, but some feedback > I won't sell your data and will be very personal with you. This isn't good enough anymore. You need to promise that my data won't ever _ever_ be sold. Especially since you're asking me to share my di…

Thank you for your feedback and I understand your concern, but I'm not sure how to pull it off. I don't have a fancy lawyer that could customize such thing to me, nor I have a budget for it.

Here're some facts that could help you to find peace of mind. First of all, I operate in the EU, so I can't simply sell your data. Also, it costs me virtually $0 to maintain the service (thanks to Firebase and Mailgun), so I won't be forced to sell out to keep it afloat. At last but not least I use it myself with my close friends so we're in the same boat.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by bad_user »

artfulhippo wrote: post #7

>Private and Secure It’s as private as your email...which probably means not private. Like most people, I depend on an advertising company to host my emails. But I wouldn’t share my private diary with them.

You can encrypt those emails with PGP, the best encryption there is.

A good email client can also learn to automatically encrypt when you send to a specific email, so you can send to a specific alias (with a plus or subdomain aliasing scheme).

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