Libb

I was not aware LibreOffice had an encrypt option,

Yep, it does. It's just a matter of checking the password option when you save it:

And to type the password when you want to open the file:

On Reddit I posted a lot less. Often I’m super late to the party and someone had discovered and posted it 6 years ago. Even when I discover it in a timely manner, someone else has usually already gotten to it and posted it. For comments, often people already summed up everything I wanted to say and I have nothing new to add.

In French, we have this saying (I don't know where it come from): 'les anciens ont volés mes meilleures idées' which can be translated as 'The elders they all stole my best ideas' meaning one never truly create anything new. But, yeah, I understand your feeling regarding reddit: at times it can feel like a never ending and an impossible to win race.

I made it a personal rule to not care about being first, only focusing on what I could bring to the discussion (and if nothing, I would not post).

I didn’t even really comment on Reddit as I felt nobody would ever even see what I said.

I often had very interesting discussions on reddit, but I was also mostly invested in communities that were very well maintained by their mods (the true unsung heroes of any good community). My issue with reddit was mostly with reddit itself, the corporation. But some of the conversations I had there were at times exceptional and many were... great. Naively, at my humble level, that's what I want to encourage people to develop here too.

Here feels more inspiring because in a focused forum like we both have, you’ll end up with a group of the same folks coming by regularly and develop a flow with the people replying to you and participating.

Hopefully. It only just needs some good will to start the conversation ;)

Keep at it and you’ll find your natural flow and it gets easier! Best of luck!

Thx!

digital is safer in the terms that family wouldn’t read it. Personally I gave up trying digital though because every diary I have tried so far either looked like trash, didn’t run on Debian or lacked a meaningful password protect (one that didn’t keep the file plain text and have the lock on the software itself)

Have you tried LibreOffice Writer? It can encrypt natively and it works great on my dear Debian (and on Mint, too). It's not plain text files but it's an open standard.

I would rather have some random person I the internet steal it over my family steal it, the chances of it actually being leaked to someone meaningful is low enough that it’s not a worry to me, but I can’t shake the feeling if I forget to lock my system family could access it freely, which would be devistating.

This is very true! And it deserves a lot more considerations, I think.

I mean, I'm lucky enough to know I can trust my spouse (I have zero protection on my journal which sits on my desk for her to grab anytime she feels like it, save that I know she never would do such a thing) but if that was not the case, if we coudl not trust each other on those questions, being able to prioritize the 'threat level' is essential. What would I fear more? Sure, that would be family getting a glimpse of my most intimate thoughts much more than a stranger reading it, aka:

It’s not that I write about the family but that they are meant to show you in your more vulnerable states, and that’s not something I would like my family being involved in.

Again: +1

So, if I may ask, how do you protect the privacy of your analog journal? You put in a safe box of some sort or a drawer with a lock?

I do not really have an opinion on the banner thing.

I'm not sure of anything either. I decided I would let it stay like it is for the time being. Seeing new persons subscribing (and a few posting) is already such a good sign, it feels like there is no need to push things too hard.

But regular posting, enough to prove to someone who is just browsing the community that their comments or posts will probably be seen and engaged with by another human being at some point, is a good idea.

That's the plan.

I just realized that also too many posts from one user in a short span of time can make a user worry their own post would get drowned out.

Exactly, which is obviously not the best thing ;)

I'm stuck in bed with a bad fever, I will try to answer later if you don't mind ;)

There’s something much more personal about it than typing on a screen.

So much! Like receiving (and sending) a handwritten letter. I don't now, It encourages to care much in reading and/or answering it.

So I actually posted on !journaling@sh.itjust.works but I don’t see it when I go to sh.itjust.works

I can see your post (both from sh.itjustworks and from my main jlai.lu instance). have you tried logging out and logging back in?

I can see your test post from my instance, from the account called Libb with a blue profile picture.

Yeah I figured out it was one of the few bugs we will have to live with for the time being (like the fact that I had to create an alt account in order to get full admin rights on the community, despite being admin with my main account).

I almost forgot: thx for posting :) (I answered your question)

Don't know about the others but, like I mentioned in an earlier thread, I try to make (and often fail ;)) short daily entries (with a few info I want to keep a record of, like the time I woke up and my mood, and so on) but I will also write down the events of the day (nothing major, like politics or whatever drama is going on, just personal stuff, people I met,...) and various things I would like to be able to remember.

I also try to sketch more.

• Spend some time posting stuff in the !journaling@sh.itjust.works, hopefully encouraging members to participate more. Things have started to move in the right direction which makes me even more convinced there are a lot more people that could share real good/interesting/useful/fun content. One just needs to find how to encourage them.
• Write a letter and send it to a friend, the old-school snail mail way.
• Read (a paper book) and write (on sheets of paper, with a fountain pen). Yep, I try to spend as much time as I can away from any screen.
• Do chores. Yeah! (Don't tell anyone, I cheated as little as I started the laundry today already)
• Get over that nasty cold I got a couple days ago.
• If that cold allows, get out for my daily walks.
• Last but certainly not not least, spend as much time as I can with my spouse, being silly together. It doesn't matter if we're well into our 50s and are supposed to be serious and all that, or if we've been silly together for 25 years already, it's always a lot of fun ;)

If you need help I could make a tutorial

I've been thinking a lot more about your proposition. And I think I have now a clear idea how we could put your tutorial to good use right here, have it readily accessible to anyone. So, if you're still OK to write it, by all means, do it. Hopefully, that could be the first of an exciting new series too... I hope I'll be able to write a little more about that soon, but don't wait for me ;)

PS: if you any question or whatever feel free to send me a PM, or to reach me right here if you prefer we discuss it publicly for anyone to participate.

If nobody had participated in a year, nobody has had more interest into making it something good than you. I’m sure you can only make it better

Before I quit posting on reddit to move on Lemmy I was much more, like a lot more, a commenting type of user than a creator of new posts. So, that's a real revolution for me and I have my doubts how 'better' I can make anything, but I get your idea ;)

Just do what you like. If you get enough regulars where they say, hey, can we do this or that, worry about it then. For now, just show the group is alive and grow it organically. Keep the commenters engaged, and you’re golden.

Yep, I reckon you're right and I should not worry too much about 'maybes'.

Thx!