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Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred) (lemdro.id)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I picked day one up as a journaling app many years ago, and have enjoyed it. But I've now mostly left the apple ecosystem and I'm ready for a new solution. An important feature to me is the calendar view that both shows you what days you have entries for and allows you to see previous year's entries on a day. The lack of this feature knocks out the most recommended alternatives on this community (joplin, obsidian, and logseq come to mind). Journey cloud and diarium are strong picks, but I'd prefer non proprietary and stronger self hosting support. Along with better platform availability. Memoria is also in consideration, but the documentation is pretty light and it's hard to tell if it will function in the way I expect. Likewise with memos, which I've seen suggested on here.

Needs:

  • Usable on linux (I can live with a web app)
  • Calendar view showing days with entries
  • Encryption
  • Cloud sync functionality (no local only apps like rednotebook)

Nice to haves:

  • Proper app for linux, android, ios
  • Ability to import a day one backup, preserving my 5 or so years of journal history
  • FOSS
  • Selfhostable
  • Support for media (primarily photos)
  • Prompts for password on every launch
  • Equivalent to "on this day" feature allowing you to view previous entries on a day
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

This is something I've been thinking of developing myself as I'm looking for a new project to start and I don't like any of the journaling options available right now, foss or otherwise.

I'll look into Day One to see what kind of features I'd need to replicate/have alternatives for and see if it's something I want to dive into, especially because my journaling needs are very simple so my initial plan was to make something very simple.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You could approach it as a Joplin plugins. I switched from Trello to Joplin Kanban and now Joplin YesYouKan. Seeing how powerful they can be, upping Joplin's journaling game should be doable! And you don't have to even start your whole own new project.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Honestly I've never used Joplin. I'll look into it!

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