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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by sandrobfc on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:01AM (#18873251)
It looks really great and I find it to be very fresh, but my main concern is... what happened the the real offline alternatives?

Except for the way in which you write and access JournalBook, how is it different from a real journal that we can carry everywhere?

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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by _mischief on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:19AM (#18873322)
> real offline alternatives

How about https://tiddlywiki.com/ ?

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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by mcless on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:53AM (#18873465)
I thought the parent comment was referring to real offline journals made of treeware.
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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by sandrobfc on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:36AM (#18873682)
Exactly. It's not that I don't see value in online alternatives, but in this case, if the main point is to access it offline, I don't see how different it is from a physical journal.
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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by _mischief on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:55AM (#18873797)
Why use digital formats offline:

  - editing and reordering text
  - attachments
  - aesthetics
  - accessibility 
  - hassle/weight optimisation
Aesthetics includes theming, and also not everyone has good handwriting.

Accessibility, because not everyone is able to hand-write in the first place.

Weight optimisation, because if a laptop is non-negotiable, going digital means one less thing to remember about and carry with you.

I have multiple physical notebooks/calendars and a digital commonplace book, they all have their place.

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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by developit on Thursday January 10, 2019 @02:44PM (#18877331)
For slow writers but quick typists, an app is always going to win out over a physical journal. Also interested in an event call export + parse.
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Re:Show HN: JournalBook – Privacy centric, offline first, pe... by fiala__ on Thursday January 10, 2019 @07:25AM (#18873350)
Many years ago I used Omm for a bit, it's pretty good if you really want to concentrate https://ommwriter.com/
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