should I keep using an outdated electron journal app?
The last update was in 2020. Electron version is 8.0.
I have been using it since then on linux.. however, I am not too sure if I should keep using it?
If I am moving to another app, I am thinking of rednotebook, unless there is something better.
You should at least play around with the export options and do regular exports. You really don't want your diary of over 5 years to be stuck in an unmaintained app. And since this seems to be supporting exporting into markdown - maybe try an export and checkout logseq or Obsidian?
If you are afraid someone gets access to your computer and then has a ready to use backdoor in that app and you can lose valuable prose, then use something different.
If not, what else are you worried about?
If you want a proper journaling app :
Inner Ink
Linked
Rednotebook seems solid
Having markdown means you can use it in a variety of apps but I'm not sure how many have encryption (obsidian and joplin maybe?)
You could also try Trilium Next
I also found Darkwrite. Can export as HTML
Ghostwriter is another good and simpler one for Linux
QOwnNotes is a fast loading, Qt based, plaintext editor that supports markdown and preview, plenty of helpful plugins, heavily customizable, has nextcloud support, supports workspaces in the form of note folders.
No affiliation but a happy user and also sponsor it.
Obsidian will change your life
This is c/opensource
Logseq is a good alternative.
Yeah you are correct I posted before realizing what sub I was in. I would kill for a opensource version I have tried all of them but keep coming back to obsidian
did they open source it?
Nope but they made the license free to use in most any context. The commercial license requirement has been dropped.
why is it pinging the github server every minute??
cosmic@pop-os:~$ sudo tcpdump | grep "github"
[sudo] password for cosmic:
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v[v]... for full protocol decode
listening on enp1s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), snapshot length 262144 bytes
03:12:25.287023 IP pop-os.58602 > fw.domain: 11618+ [1au] A? github.com. (39)
03:12:25.358983 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [S], seq 4137790427, win 64240, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 2108472627 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
03:12:25.423103 IP lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https > pop-os.39648: Flags [S.], seq 1114499144, ack 4137790428, win 65160, options [mss 1360,sackOK,TS val 2211975173 ecr 2108472627,nop,wscale 8], length 0
03:12:25.423162 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [.], ack 1, win 502, options [nop,nop,TS val 2108472691 ecr 2211975173], length 0
03:12:25.428280 IP pop-os.39648 > lb-140-82-116-3-sea.github.com.https: Flags [P.], seq 1:518, ack 1, win 502, options [nop,nop,TS val 2108472696 ecr 2211975173], length 517