FOSS Day One Journal Alternative (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by GiuseppeLasagna@mander.xyz to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/46344922

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good open source journaling app that can rival Day One? I'm looking for something end-to-end encrypted—I know Day One claims to be E2E, but I'm not sure I trust it. I use Joplin for my general note taking, but It's not really a suitable alternative for journaling.

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[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thank you!

I didn't bother looking at the license. I assumed it was openn source.

It's source available which is good and better than proprietary but as a free alternative is better.

I really like it but that changes things for me, thanks again! Journiv can decide some day to not publish the code and that's the problem for me.

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4 points 5 days ago

Fyi, you could consider the app server as source available, but the web client is proprietary and closed and its license probihibits reverse engineering and the like.

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

That makes it even worse

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

That is the distinction between Open Source and Free (as in Freedom) Software. I prefer the spanish/latin/french term Libre to refer to what you call "truly open source".

Open source is indeed frequently used by big and smaller companies to do what I call OpenWashing. Yes the source code is available somewhere but the licence is so restrictive that it doesn't respect my freedom and thus isn't Libreware / Free Software.

Also copyleft for the win!