Mini Diarium: A Free, Open-Source Local-Only Journal App with Strong Encryption
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holyknight
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Summary
Mini Diarium is a free, open-source journal application that prioritizes privacy with local-only storage and strong encryption. It's a spiritual successor to the original Mini Diary app, rebuilt from scratch to maintain the same core philosophy of being encrypted, local-only, and focused on journaling without internet connectivity. The article provides download instructions, installation notes, and background on why the project was created due to the original app becoming unmaintained.
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Mini Diarium is a spiritual successor to Mini Diary by Samuel Meuli. I loved the original tool. It was simple, private, and did exactly what a journal app should do.
I initially thought about forking it and modernizing the stack, but turned out impractical. So I started over from scratch, keeping the same core philosophy (encrypted, local-only, focused).
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