online diary, not public blog (I'm almost clueless)

[Greg Conquest]

Hi,

I am looking for a diary/journal to collate my existing electronic and
paper journals. I know blogs are similar, but blogs are designed to be
public. What I would like:

- portable: I want to make entries and edits from various computers I
have access to.
- be encrypted
- be private, maybe with *options* for opening parts for public
viewing
- allow easy integration of text and images: I want to scan in some
journal pages, and then OCR them or type in text beneath the image.
- allow audio and even video clips to be entered similar to the
scanned images above
- be saved in some non-proprietary format. I don't want my work locked
up at the mercy of someone else's business strategy.

I installed WordPress on my website today to try it, but I think I
could code html by hand faster. This seems to be my only option at the
moment -- using raw html. Maybe a wysiwyg html editor that has the
resultant html file(s) synchronized via encrypted ftp to my website?
But this is not really portable.

Any other ideas?

Thank you.
Greg Conquest

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[Tr.]

Hi,

I am looking for a diary/journal to collate my existing electronic and
paper journals. I know blogs are similar, but blogs are designed to be
public. What I would like:

- portable: I want to make entries and edits from various computers I
have access to.
- be encrypted
- be private, maybe with *options* for opening parts for public
viewing
- allow easy integration of text and images: I want to scan in some
journal pages, and then OCR them or type in text beneath the image.
- allow audio and even video clips to be entered similar to the
scanned images above
- be saved in some non-proprietary format. I don't want my work locked
up at the mercy of someone else's business strategy.

I installed WordPress on my website today to try it, but I think I
could code html by hand faster. This seems to be my only option at the
moment -- using raw html. Maybe a wysiwyg html editor that has the
resultant html file(s) synchronized via encrypted ftp to my website?
But this is not really portable.

Any other ideas?

Thought of a wiki?

pmwiki / dokuwiki /mediawiki
(in my order of prefs)

..

 

[Lou]

Thought of a wiki?

pmwiki / dokuwiki /mediawiki
(in my order of prefs)

.

Or carry a USB drive with you?

Lou

 

[Brian Robertson]

Or carry a USB drive with you?

EPIM portable would be perfect on a USB drive.
http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=dvsp

 

[Greg Conquest]

EPIM portable would be perfect on a USB drive.
http://www.essentialpim.com/?r=products&pr=dvsp

Thanks for these suggestions, but this journal, with the multimedia
included, is going to get big. And a wiki? They are designed for pblic
access as well, aren't they? I will check into that one.

Last night I was thinking about wysiwyg html editors, and I thought
maybe OpenOffice could works as a basic one. Then I realized that I
could also just use the OpenOffice OpenDocument format, across
platforms even.

I started the journal in OpenOffice, included one scan, and saw that
audio/video can be embedded as well. When I went to save the document,
there was a password option!

Now, I have to:
- check the strength of the encryption
- determine if I can save the document to and open from my website
(uploading and downloading each time would work, but a mapped remote
drive on each machine I use would be much preferable.)
- check to see if using html from OpenOffice would work as well.

There may still be something better available, but I finally seem to
have found a clue.

Greg Conquest

other keywords: online journal,

 

[Franklin]

Thanks for these suggestions, but this journal, with the multimedia
included, is going to get big. And a wiki? They are designed for
pblic access as well, aren't they? I will check into that one.

Last night I was thinking about wysiwyg html editors, and I thought
maybe OpenOffice could works as a basic one. Then I realized that I
could also just use the OpenOffice OpenDocument format, across
platforms even.

I started the journal in OpenOffice, included one scan, and saw
that audio/video can be embedded as well. When I went to save the
document, there was a password option!

Now, I have to: - check the strength of the encryption - determine
if I can save the document to and open from my website (uploading
and downloading each time would work, but a mapped remote drive on
each machine I use would be much preferable.) - check to see if
using html from OpenOffice would work as well.

There may still be something better available, but I finally seem
to have found a clue.

Greg Conquest

There is a view that if something is really important then it should
not be put on the web no matter how well you think you are encrypting
it.

Personally I would be surprised if you outran the growth in USB
memory provided you didn't put movie clips into your diary.
Currently 1GB USB devices are quite easy to find and the price is not
bad.

 

[Al Klein]

Thanks for these suggestions, but this journal, with the multimedia
included, is going to get big.

I saw an 8 gig CF drive for a reasonable price today - about $99,
IIRC.

(uploading and downloading each time would work, but a mapped remote
drive on each machine I use would be much preferable.)

Trivial in Win XP. My Network Places. Click on Add a Network Place.