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by aryik 2480 days ago
Out of curiosity, what encrypted notes app do you use? I’d be interested in a simple notes app with a clean UI, cloud sync, and encryption. I’ve played with cryptpad [1] a little bit and it’s good, but maybe a little too feature-heavy. It’s closer to google docs.

[1] https://cryptpad.fr/

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I have been using pass[1]. Lots of git hosting providers out there and mobile apps. I just have an alias that runs

  pass edit journal/$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')
And I run the alias when the mood hits me. Then

  pass git push origin
[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
Also use pass (for passwords). That's a clever hack, thanks.
You should probably look into https://standardnotes.org, it was mentioned here a while back.

Free editor is quite clean and simple.

This looks fantastic, I will definitely check it out. Thank you.
It's very barebones, but throwing jrnl (https://jrnl.sh) into a dropbox/[insert synced directory] works well and is very minimal. Encryption is supported. It's also easy to maintain multiple journals, like one for work, one for your personal life, one per project, etc.
1Password by Agilebits. Though the UI is a little clunky for long-form typing the cross-platform sync works well enough.
For Mac and iOS, DayOne is really nice and supports sync with client side encryption. https://dayoneapp.com
Vim has an encryption feature. But I can’t sync my notes with my mobile device. An encrypted notes app that can be accessed from a desktop and a mobile device would be nice.
If you know emacs: it works well with gpg mode. The default (~) auto-save won’t work though in this mode.
OneNote
I'd be interested in this too