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Looking for recommendations on a good FOSS journal/diary app for Android. Preferably encrypted at rest. Cross-device sync isn't important for me, looking more for a thought dump than anything.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I started using Joplin recently and like it, but I'm not sure it quite fits what I'm looking for in this case

Does it encrypt at rest or only in transit? I haven't been able to find a clear answer (which makes me believe it's not)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That, I can’t tell you - I tend to move to pen and paper for anything too sensitive, so I haven’t looked too deeply into that feature

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough - I hadn't even considered going old school, but that might be a good idea! Thanks for the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It has full E2EE, the files are encrypted on your own system and whatever server you use.

edit: you just have to explicitly set it up using your own chosen keyphrase.

[–] xcjs 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's encrypted during transit only (if using HTTPS), though you can look into an encrypted filesystem on the server and the clients you use.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but you are mistaken. Joplin definitely encrypts data at rest if you enable end-to-end encryption: https://joplinapp.org/e2ee/

[–] xcjs 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I didn't realize this was a feature of Joplin!