Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: offline first, encrypted

Re:Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: o... by austinjp on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @03:48AM (#40655610)

I've been pondering similar regarding data persistence. One half-assed idea I have is simply to prompt the user to save the data regularly. A reminder with a button/link which triggers data serialisation from storage and then triggers the save dialogue. The serialisation/save could be triggered manually any time. A reciprocal import would also be needed of course.

Another similarity half-baked plan is for a PWA to regularly post (encrypted?) data to a service I'd host that simply forwards the data to the user's choice of cloud storage. It would require initial setup and probably regularly refreshing token, but should be workable.

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Re:Show HN: Unforget, the note-taking app I always wanted: o... by dlazaro on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @05:57AM (#40656354)

The self-hosted app Actual Budget [1] sort of takes the second approach, where each client maintains their own SQLite database in local storage. However, instead of just hosting a single file database, the server maintains a list of migrations and is able to resolve conflicts between multiple clients. Clients push/pull the migrations when syncing to keep their database up-to-date. E2EE is also supported. The original creator, James Long, has done talks about the architecture if you want to learn more [2, 3].

[1] https://actualbudget.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dh_gtndayY

[3] https://www.localfirst.fm/7

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