Lifeograph is an open source off-line and private journal and note taking application.
It offers all standard features expected from a diary application, along with some unique ones, in a light-weight and intuitive package.
Lifeograph strives to provide a clean and streamlined user interface.
Key Features
- Supports encrypted (with real encryption) and unencrypted diaries.
- Automatically logs out when not used for some time (to protect your diary when you forget to log out doing some other thing).
- Automatically formats entry titles and subheadings.
- Wiki-like rich text formatting (*bold*, _italic_, =strikeout=, etc…).
- Basic searching/filtering and replacing text.
- Themes in text editor.
- Favorite entries.
- Entry tagging.
- Spell checking.
- Links between entries.
- Links in URI form (https://, file://, mailto://, etc…).
- Automatic backups.
- Printing individual entries or whole diaries.
- Basic statistical charts.
- Image thumbnails in entries.
Website: lifeograph.sourceforge.net
Support:
Developer: Ahmet Öztürk
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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