Almanah Diary is a compact personal diary for the GNOME desktop. Its main purpose is straightforward: provide a place to write about what happened on a particular day and return to the entry when you want to recall an event or reflect on a period of time.
The application arranges writing by date, rather than requiring users to create a separate document for every entry. It also integrates with parts of the GNOME personal information environment, allowing relevant calendar events and previously recorded tasks to appear alongside diary information when the supporting services are installed.
Almanah places its diary in local storage using SQLite. Users who need to protect personal writing can configure optional GPG-based encryption, although that capability depends on the relevant libraries and key configuration being available. Its relatively modest interface may appeal to writers who do not want a complex knowledge-management system.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create and edit a diary entry associated with a particular calendar date.
- Browse older entries through the application’s date-oriented interface.
- Apply basic text formatting when composing journal entries.
- Print diary content when a paper record is required.
- Assign tags to entries to make recurring subjects easier to identify.
- Use optional spell checking through GtkSpell support.
- Protect the stored diary with GPG encryption when the encryption dependency is installed and configured.
- Store entries in a local SQLite database rather than a remote service.
- Display appointments and historical tasks through optional Evolution Data Server integration.
- Define recurring terms or longer-running subjects and relate them to diary material.
- Use an interface designed for the GNOME desktop and its associated technologies.
- Keep journaling independent of subscriptions or online accounts, with ownership of the diary data remaining local.
Website: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Almanah_Diary
Support:
Developer: Philip Withnall, Álvaro Peña, Jan Tojnar and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Almanah Diary is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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