FOSS Day One Journal Alternative (mander.xyz)

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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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[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 3 points 4 days ago

I was going to submit Journiv for review at It's Really FOSS but one of their conditions to accept a project is that the project claims to be open source - and I can't find anywhere that Journiv claims to be open source!

In this discussion on Journiv's github Swalab Tech says:

You’re absolutely right, Journiv’s core is source available, and it currently includes a built Flutter web version client...As of now there are no plans of making client's source available.

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I can understand your concerns so let me answer them in detail.

First thing first, why is frontend code not open source:

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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026

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