rinoontop / epic-diary

A clean and modern encrypted journal/diary app

Epic Journal

A free cross-platform encrypted daily journal / diary app, with full CSS styling. It is built with Sqlite3 and SQLcipher with AES 256 CBC encryption.

💀💀💀 Update 2022 💀💀💀

Due to the amazing Obsidian project, there is no need for this project to continue. Obsidian does everything this could do and a lot more.

If you want to have an encrypted Obsidian instance, just use Cryptomator + Dropbox or Google Drive.

https://obsidian.md/

I built it as a free and open replacement for The Journal by DavidRM, which I have used for many years. The main issues I wanted to solve were better styling, and the ability to know that my entries are safe for the long-term, with an open and known database format.

Features

• Fast and clean Electron app
• AES 256 CBC encryption
• Single journal file that you can store in your Dropbox, or wherever you like
• Custom style types
• Pure HTML5 compatible
• Syntax highlighting
• Insertable templates
• Tagging
• Image support
• Active development

Development notes

To set up the dev environment, just:

npm install

This should run electron-builder after install to rebuild the SQLCipher package for your environment.

To run or build:

npm run dev
npm build