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I totally understand. I'm the kind of person who keeps a diary inside an encrypted true-crypt folder, so security and privacy have been my primary concern from

by feniv 13y ago

I totally understand. I'm the kind of person who keeps a diary inside an encrypted true-crypt folder, so security and privacy have been my primary concern from day one. The main reason I'm deploying this as a web-service rather than a downloadable app is so that you can track things from anywhere (without having to be technical enough to manage your own servers). It's much harder to do that with excel or true-crypt, even if you use it with things like google-docs or dropbox.

goldfeld 13y ago
Still, and I don't mean to bash your work, I think this is a disservice to the internet because it perpetuates cloud tools and keeps the state-of-the-art even for something as personal as journaling in the cloud. That's a very, very sorry situation. Paraphrasing the old adage, if you haven't something to contribute that's in the best interests of people, better not to contribute at all. I keep my private stuff local as well, and you yourself admit to doing the same. Why not focus on making it easier for people to do the same, instead of riding the popularity contest of the quick-start cloud?
- feniv 13y ago
  Because I believe that privacy and the cloud can co-exist in a mutually beneficial fashion. Just because the app is online doesn't mean that it has to be "social" (there is intentionally no social-sharing options for the log or journal entries). But by being online, the application itself can improve over time by analyzing aggregate data to detect anomalies (like Mint.com), give predictions, refine the natural language parsing etc. If this was just a journal, I would agree with you and make it self-contained. But it's not. In the next 5-10 years we're going to be seeing a massive number of wearable sensors embedded in our clothes, appliances and tools. A managed, online API will be better able to be always available, consuming this tsunami of data and turning it into useful insights for you.

by feniv 13y ago

goldfeld 13y ago

Still, and I don't mean to bash your work, I think this is a disservice to the internet because it perpetuates cloud tools and keeps the state-of-the-art even for something as personal as journaling in the cloud. That's a very, very sorry situation. Paraphrasing the old adage, if you haven't something to contribute that's in the best interests of people, better not to contribute at all. I keep my private stuff local as well, and you yourself admit to doing the same. Why not focus on making it easier for people to do the same, instead of riding the popularity contest of the quick-start cloud?

feniv 13y ago
Because I believe that privacy and the cloud can co-exist in a mutually beneficial fashion. Just because the app is online doesn't mean that it has to be "social" (there is intentionally no social-sharing options for the log or journal entries). But by being online, the application itself can improve over time by analyzing aggregate data to detect anomalies (like Mint.com), give predictions, refine the natural language parsing etc. If this was just a journal, I would agree with you and make it self-contained. But it's not. In the next 5-10 years we're going to be seeing a massive number of wearable sensors embedded in our clothes, appliances and tools. A managed, online API will be better able to be always available, consuming this tsunami of data and turning it into useful insights for you.