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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 karma_fountain »

alazel wrote: post #3

Looks quite smooth and has a gentle feel, I like the design. How can you add it to your home screen? There is no link nor explanation.

Scroll all the way to the top then a link will appear in a bottom toolbar type thing.

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

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Post by trys »

alazel wrote: post #3

Looks quite smooth and has a gentle feel, I like the design. How can you add it to your home screen? There is no link nor explanation.

Thanks! As far as I'm aware, you can't manually trigger the 'add to homescreen' prompt as it's a system-level interaction. Android Chrome & Firefox should trigger it, but if not it's under the default browser settings dropdown on Android, and under 'share' (I think) for IOS.

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Post by helb »

alazel wrote: post #3

Looks quite smooth and has a gentle feel, I like the design. How can you add it to your home screen? There is no link nor explanation.

Chrome on Androids offers it automatically for PWAs that meet some requirements. You can also add it manually from the browser menu.

https://vgy.me/GbvnOM.png

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-b...

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

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Post by trys »

muvek wrote: post #7

Is there some kind of sync mechanism? I couldn't see anything about account creation. You say "offline first". Is it not "offline only"?

There's no sync (at this point) and no account creation by design. It's all stored in your browser - I suppose in that regard it is not 'online'!

Sync may well be coming, but I'm not yet certain how to do it securely. That being said, import & export is available now, so it can be manually sync'd.

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

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Post by pretty_bubbles »

trys wrote: post #8
muvek wrote: post #7

Is there some kind of sync mechanism? I couldn't see anything about account creation. You say "offline first". Is it not "offline only"?

There's no sync (at this point) and no account creation by design. It's all stored in your browser - I suppose in that regard it is not 'online'! Sync may well be coming, but I'm not yet certain how to do it securely. That being said, import & export is available now, so it can be manually sync'd.

Client side encryption with a passphrase derived key and synchronization to Google Drive? That would work great for me.
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