Need suggestions for Free, Open-source, privacy focused diary/Journaling app?

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Standard Notes Landing Page
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Standard Notes

A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
Pricing:
- Open Source
Notesnook & Standard Notes Ticks 1/2/3/5, however Standard Notes can email you your notes if you want to back them up, extremely restricted free tier which I found useless because it only allows for plain text, no markdown or rich text. Unlimited notes for plain text though.

#Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions
Obsidian.md Landing Page

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Obsidian.md

A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Obsidian & Joplin Ticks 1/2/3/4/5 but Obsidian is closed-source but nonetheless it is a trusted privacy friendly app and you can use it while having it blocked by your firewall. You can test both and see which one you like really, its down the personal preference, I like Obsidian because of how minimalist it is. Joplin saves locally which you can share over GDrive or any other cloud provider if you like. Obsidian has a 'remotely-save' plugin (all plugins are FOSS) that allows you to store encrypted backups and keep them in sync on several cloud providers of your choice or even S3.

#Knowledge Management #Knowledge Base #Markdown Editor 1454 social mentions
Notesnook Landing Page
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Notesnook

Notesnook is a simple and private note taking app that keeps your notes organized and synced on your phone, tablet and computer.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $4.49 / Monthly (UI Themes & accents)
Notesnook & Standard Notes Ticks 1/2/3/5, however Standard Notes can email you your notes if you want to back them up, extremely restricted free tier which I found useless because it only allows for plain text, no markdown or rich text. Unlimited notes for plain text though.

#Notes #Personal Notes #Note Taking 84 social mentions
Joplin Landing Page
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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
Obsidian & Joplin Ticks 1/2/3/4/5 but Obsidian is closed-source but nonetheless it is a trusted privacy friendly app and you can use it while having it blocked by your firewall. You can test both and see which one you like really, its down the personal preference, I like Obsidian because of how minimalist it is. Joplin saves locally which you can share over GDrive or any other cloud provider if you like. Obsidian has a 'remotely-save' plugin (all plugins are FOSS) that allows you to store encrypted backups and keep them in sync on several cloud providers of your choice or even S3.

#Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions
Cryptee Landing Page
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Cryptee

Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €3.0 / Monthly (10GB)
Crypt.ee Ticks 1/2/3/5 of your requirements However free tier only has 100MB storage which might be enough for a journal, it also has the best rich text editor of them all, would highly recommend.

#Photos #Note Taking #Cloud Storage 79 social mentions