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Excited for the journal app! I was always uncomfortable trusting any of the existing apps and inevitably censor or give up writing my thoughts. I’ve even tried

Excited for the journal app! I was always uncomfortable trusting any of the existing apps and inevitably censor or give up writing my thoughts. I’ve even tried building several (4(!)) journaling apps in the past and it’s still an unsolved problem for me. Right now i use a mix of obsidian and a self built journal app but that obviously has some drawbacks on its own. Microjournaling, photo context and able to share (along with local e2e) are on top of my list. Looks like it solves many of it.

FollowingTheDao 3y ago
> I was always uncomfortable trusting any of the existing apps I still cannot understand why people are so trusting of things they put on their phone. It is so much easier for anyone to get into your phone as opposed to your house or a safe in your house. You all are giving so much up just for this convenience, which will one day become inconvenient.
- syspec 3y ago
  Probably because I've had my house broken into, but I've never had my data stolen off of my phone. Even when I have lost my phone, no one has been able to take anything out.
  - FollowingTheDao 3y ago
    > I've never had my data stolen off of my phone How would you know? In fact, you do not know this for certain. It is just wishful thinking. Marketing.
    - derefr 3y ago
      You seem to be conflating exfiltrating data from cloud services that the phone syncs with (which many state actors probably do en masse), with exfiltrating data held only on the device itself (which is something that you'd only expect from people who actively care about your data, e.g. police looking for evidence after you've been arrested, criminal gangs who want your crypto-wallet keys, etc.) Modern phones are pretty good at stopping the latter class of attack; this is self-evident from the fact that this type of attacker is looking for specific things in order to use them in a timely manner (use the evidence against you at trial; drain your crypto wallet to spend the funds themselves before you can move the funds elsewhere), and yet we rarely see people reporting that someone made use of their exfiltrated data in this way. PCs are much more vulnerable to this type of attack. There are tons of computer viruses that steal your crypto wallet.
- avinoth 3y ago
  Apples to oranges imo. We’re talking about a journal (with photos and audio and whatnot) here. Also, i think keeping it in a physical format is more vulnerable from others accidentally reading it than in a phone which is the most private to me as an individual.
bunga-bunga 3y ago
Yeah no, I started self-hosting when I realized that I really didn’t want anyone reading my thoughts. I’ve been using a regular note-taking app: iA Writer on my phone and Sublime Text on my computer. At one point in the past I even had a beautiful WordPress site first online and then locally, but gave up when I started writing more on my phone.

FollowingTheDao 3y ago

> I was always uncomfortable trusting any of the existing apps I still cannot understand why people are so trusting of things they put on their phone. It is so much easier for anyone to get into your phone as opposed to your house or a safe in your house. You all are giving so much up just for this convenience, which will one day become inconvenient.

syspec 3y ago
Probably because I've had my house broken into, but I've never had my data stolen off of my phone. Even when I have lost my phone, no one has been able to take anything out.
- FollowingTheDao 3y ago
  > I've never had my data stolen off of my phone How would you know? In fact, you do not know this for certain. It is just wishful thinking. Marketing.
  - derefr 3y ago
    You seem to be conflating exfiltrating data from cloud services that the phone syncs with (which many state actors probably do en masse), with exfiltrating data held only on the device itself (which is something that you'd only expect from people who actively care about your data, e.g. police looking for evidence after you've been arrested, criminal gangs who want your crypto-wallet keys, etc.) Modern phones are pretty good at stopping the latter class of attack; this is self-evident from the fact that this type of attacker is looking for specific things in order to use them in a timely manner (use the evidence against you at trial; drain your crypto wallet to spend the funds themselves before you can move the funds elsewhere), and yet we rarely see people reporting that someone made use of their exfiltrated data in this way. PCs are much more vulnerable to this type of attack. There are tons of computer viruses that steal your crypto wallet.
avinoth 3y ago
Apples to oranges imo. We’re talking about a journal (with photos and audio and whatnot) here. Also, i think keeping it in a physical format is more vulnerable from others accidentally reading it than in a phone which is the most private to me as an individual.

bunga-bunga 3y ago

Yeah no, I started self-hosting when I realized that I really didn’t want anyone reading my thoughts. I’ve been using a regular note-taking app: iA Writer on my phone and Sublime Text on my computer. At one point in the past I even had a beautiful WordPress site first online and then locally, but gave up when I started writing more on my phone.