Mini Diarium is a desktop journaling application built around local storage and strong protection of personal writing. It deliberately avoids accounts and built-in cloud synchronisation, making it suitable for people who want a diary whose contents remain on their own computer.
The application is a successor in spirit to Mini Diary, but is implemented using Tauri, SolidJS, Rust and SQLite. It combines a familiar calendar-based interface with several ways to organise writing, including multiple journals and separate entries on the same date.
Mini Diarium also supports different approaches to unlocking a diary. Passwords and private key files can protect stored material, while locally trusted journals can be configured to open without a repeated prompt. Its backup and export facilities are important parts of a workflow where there is no cloud service to recover lost writing.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Encrypt journal data at rest using AES-256-GCM and a wrapped master-key design.
- Authenticate with a password, an X25519 private key file or both.
- Create separate journals for different aspects of life and optionally configure local-only automatic unlocking.
- Use a rich-text editor with image attachments and automatic saving.
- Organise and revisit entries through calendar navigation and tags.
- Keep several independent entries for the same calendar day.
- Import data from Mini Diary, Day One and jrnl export formats.
- Export content as JSON or readable Markdown documents.
- Maintain verified encrypted backups before sensitive operations, with tiered retention.
- Review journal statistics and personalise themes, spell checking and automatic locking.
- Extend selected functionality using the documented Rhai user-plugin system.
- Run the desktop application on Linux, Windows and macOS.
- Operate without an account, telemetry, background network access or built-in cloud synchronisation.
Website: github.com/fjrevoredo/mini-diarium
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Developer: Francisco J. Revoredo
License: MIT License
Mini Diarium is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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