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

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Post by mcculley »

athenot wrote: post #75

The very humble Notes app on macOS/iOS fulfills this for me. I just start typing, the minimalistic interface gets out of the way. Timestamping is on last modification instead of creation date but I add one manually. That's about my only drawback. Some features I find compelling: - I can start a train of thought on the mac, continue it on the phone and complete it on my mac. - It's not mined by some advertising compan…

I built a little app for myself just because I wanted timestamps and geostamps: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chronible/id1397942944

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

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Post by mvanbaak »

ekianjo wrote: post #96
kingnothing wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? Encrypt it before sending.

How do your friends read it then?

This has been solved for a very long time already. It's called PGP.

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

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Post by eerrt »

cosmojg wrote: post #25
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.

like Protonmail

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Post by nickloewen »

gglitch wrote: post #124
athenot wrote: post #75

The very humble Notes app on macOS/iOS fulfills this for me. I just start typing, the minimalistic interface gets out of the way. Timestamping is on last modification instead of creation date but I add one manually. That's about my only drawback. Some features I find compelling: - I can start a train of thought on the mac, continue it on the phone and complete it on my mac. - It's not mined by some advertising compan…

Can you say more about "Being so simple, the contents can be exported to some other format very easily"? That has been a sticking point for me, only having the export of individual notes to PDF as a built-in option.

If you copy-paste from the notes app, it tends to do a reasonable job transforming it’s formatting into a plain-text representation.(Or rich-text, if you paste into an app that supports it, like Pages or Mail.)

There are a few apps around that can do this in bulk. I have one called Notes Exporter. Apparently Note2Txt is also good: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2016/5/exporting-apple-notes-...

I am a little worried that some day these tools will disappear, but iirc the notes are just kept in an sqlite database so it shouldn’t be too hard to hack your data out manually, either.

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

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Post by kossnocorp »

disiplus wrote: post #98

I stumbled on a "lets call it a bug". If i register with a plus sign using my gmail something+diaryemail@gmail.com i cannot send emails from that email address and so it wont work for me.

Right! But I'm afraid I can't fix that. When I receive an email, I associate it with the address that GMail reports to me,, and when you sign in as something+something@gmail.com, the email address differs (as you might already guess). I know that I can safely remove +something but I can't be sure that it will work the same for every email service and ensure security. Please use something@gmail.com, I won't send you anything unless you explicitly ask for it.
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