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Day One alternative? (FOSS preferred) (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] Chee_Koala 3 points 3 days ago (2 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.

[–] henchman2019 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Both of those seem to be incompatible with mobile Joplin. Is there a way around that? Been using Joplin for years, but without plugins... New to me

[–] Chee_Koala 1 points 2 days ago

Well they don't display nicely on Android but the older plugin was viewable in android and the newer plugin is just a long special note, which you can view and edit on joplin mobile, but again, without the visual niceness they bring. Does that count as a way around?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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