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Were you using Day One? It stores unencrypted entries in iCloud/Dropbox and has the weakest password protection system I've seen. Your password isn't even synced across different devices, you need to set it each time for each device! I haven't yet stopped using it but I'm looking to make the transition to something else.

OneNote allows you to password protect and encrypt an entire section, so you could make a journal section an store all of your entries in there. It works quite well from my experience. Evernote also offers encryption but you can only encrypt a selection of text and it can be inconvenient to have to encrypt each entry separately. Both options have mobile/desktop/web apps.

Another option is a private Wordpress journal.

A lot of people here recommend using a physical journal and a pen (I'm planning on going this route eventually). You could also use good ol' text files synced with dropbox (or something else) and encrypt them yourself.

Yep, that's the app I was using before I figured out that it doesn't encrypt my entries. Also it doesn't have a web-view, right?

I thought it might be great if I would build a great-looking web-application which also has a well-documented API (you can't say that of any great journaling app out there).

I think especially for people who are traveling 'round the world - and don't keep devices like an iPhone, an MacBook, etc. with them - it would be perfect (many of them are still using Internet Cafés).

But of course, the most people are writing on their own devices. For them, we could write some native apps later.

Another tiny question: Would you pay for a service like that? I mean a few dollars /month. In my opinion, there's currently no complete service out there, which focusses only on journaling.

Okay, maybe a few poor-designed and -developed ones.

> Would you pay for a service like that?

I wouldn't. There are enough free options (e.g. onenote, email, physical journal, etc.) that work just fine for me. I personally don't see the value in paying for a service that uploads and syncs my journals, even if it has a really nice interface.

Agreed. You'd have to come up with a good feature, other than just syncing/looking pretty, to make it worth paying for.

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