Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Ask all your questions here. Are you more experienced? Feel free to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything related to keeping a journal is welcome in this weekly thread.

Why a WT?

The community keeps getting new members—we’re now 436 members, hi & welcome to all of you!—but we don’t have much active members.

My idea is therefore to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread. You can also let me know if you don’t like to see a Weekly Thread. I won’t be mad ;)

This week theme: I (don’t) care about my privacy!

Digital journal often offers some way to encrypt our entries, analog journaling not so much. Anyone opening a journal will be able to read it which can lead to some sad situations. But even if that journal was stored in a safe, or in a locked drawer, seeing us journaling may draw attention and raise questions form friends, SO, children, and even from the cat or the dog!

Do you worry about that? How you deal with the privacy of your journal?

  • nevm@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    For things like this, I create a small container file on my drive using VeraCrypt. Unlock it, it mounts as a drive on my machine. Open the journalling app and the files are there in clear. When finished, unmount and they are safely encrypted again. Not even any meta data to speak of should someone browse my file system.

    • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I will have a look at veracrypt as I suppose it works on any OS? I mostly use LUKS myself, on my Linux machine but I cannot access that disk when I’m on a Mac which is a bit annoying.