Nice. I do that in my (iCloud) calendar. Have been doing it for 8+ years now, can recommend :)
Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
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Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#52I love the idea and the implementation! However, I have a hard time remembering which day something happened, so I would constantly want to use a search function.
On my to do list! Thank you!
Blogged a lot on my phone during the day, then decided to sign up for the account. Stuff synched. A little later Logged in from chrome on my computer, got a blank page for the day. Checked back on my phone, and everything gone here also.
Did I mess up? Can I get the day back somehow? Could it happen again?
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#53For this purpose I wrote an app called Five Years Back: I can write one entry daily, but I can see what I wrote on this day for the past 5 years. My writing streak is… 1399 days as of today. Only me is using the app. Good job and good luck!
Wow, that’s commitment right here. I only started journaling (dogfooding ichinichi) from 1st January this year. It’s nice to see an unbroken streak. Gonna check out Five Years Later!
Thanks! Fingers crossed!
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#54Love it! The name, the design, the concept, the open source codebase, everything! It’s less like a note taking app and more like a diary writing app. I think that’s very neat and has its own niche. Love the local-first, browser-based nature of it. If you ever consider making a native app for it, consider looking at antinote ( https://antinote.io/ ). Been using it for over a year. It’s the only notes app that I haven’…
MacOS only, I gather? That's too bad. My next machine will be Linux, and I rather like the concept of the application.
It installs easily under Linux.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#55I love the idea and the implementation! However, I have a hard time remembering which day something happened, so I would constantly want to use a search function.
On my to do list! Thank you!
Good to know. Without a search function this tool becomes more of a write-only application ;-)
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#56Nice idea for a diary app. "Can't edit yesterday" is off-putting for me. Such a constraint should not be something a software imposes on you, should be a person's mental policy, if they so wish. I want to have full control over my data, without arbitrary restrictions. Another thing is easy deployment. Would love to give it a shot, but I need something like that to be available on both mobile and desktop, that would mean server deployment with all the headache of managing a server and backups...
I am using daily notes currently with Obsidian + Calendar plugin. Also E2EE, available on all devices, no problems syncing, plain-old files so I am not afraid of vendor-lock and can backup any way I want.
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#57The read-only past is a nice touch. I kept abandoning journaling apps because I'd spend more time editing old entries than writing new ones. This removes that trap entirely.
One thing I'd want: the ability to export everything as plain text or markdown. If the app ever goes away, I want my data.
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#58The read-only past is a nice touch. I kept abandoning journaling apps because I'd spend more time editing old entries than writing new ones. This removes that trap entirely. One thing I'd want: the ability to export everything as plain text or markdown. If the app ever goes away, I want my data.
Export is my todo #1. Cheers!
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
On my to do list! Thank you!
Blogged a lot on my phone during the day, then decided to sign up for the account. Stuff synched. A little later Logged in from chrome on my computer, got a blank page for the day. Checked back on my phone, and everything gone here also. Did I mess up? Can I get the day back somehow? Could it happen again?
Oh no, that’s the worst that could happen in an app like this. Sorry about that! I’ll investigate and fix it asap.
Filed an issue here: https://github.com/katspaugh/ichinichi/issues/32
Re: Show HN: Ichinichi – One note per day, E2E encrypted, local-first
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Exactly, client encrypts before syncing. Decryption keys are wrapped/encrypted with your password. If you change the password, only the decryption keys are re-encrypted, not your notes.
Smart approach with the key wrapping. Re-encrypting every note on a password change would be brutal at scale. Do you have a recovery path if someone forgets their password, or is it truly zero-knowledge where the data is just gone?
Assuming the user still has access to their browser, the data would be still accessible locally (and I’m planning to add an export function too).