Web app or Linux app

timo

Originally posted here.

As a developer I'm sure you know the struggle of working with different OS's, and sometimes we are bound to a certain OS but we still want the comfort of easy access to our diary (in my case It's quite annoying to install Windows on my machine just to use Diarium).
So what I'm basically asking here is for more platform support, easier said than done but I'd like just to know if you consider Linux or Web in the near future. (Writing on phone won't make the cut, I write a lot, usually during the evenings where I have access to a laptop or PC, and I want the speed a keyboard provides)

ClaudiusMinimus

timo I would love to see a web app and or a Linux app. I hope you will consider this.

Kes

timo

I would also love to see a Linux or web version. I understand that you have no plans to develop that, I just wanted to add my vote in case more demand might make you consider it in the future. 🙂

In the mean time, I wonder if anyone has tried running the windows version in Wine on Linux? Does it run in Wine? If it runs, I'd be happy to buy the windows version for my Linux computer, but I don't want to buy it if I don't know whether it will be able to run or not.

Jeroentb

timo ohhh yeah!! Web would be nice and the easiest way to have cross platform without issues. 🤗😃

timo

Currently it's rather unlikely that Diairum will arrive as web or Linux app, but I said that about macOS version 2 years ago too... 🙂

AnnieDieu

Yes would love a Web app as I don't want to install this app on my work computer but would like to journal in the moment inspirations.

diskostu

I would also like to see a web app... I am a heavy Chromebook user 😉

timo

diskostu I am a heavy Chromebook user

There is an Android version of Diarium in the Play Store that should work on Chromebooks 🙂

Marksmind

timo I use the the app on a Chromebook, and it works quite well.

diskostu

Indeed 😊 thanks!

jedi7

Regarding Linux version, I can try write a simple app in python. But I will need info about structure of the database file, etc. I can put it then on github. Feel free to contact me.

timo

jedi7 You can export the database in the app settings. It's a simple SQLite database that you can open with any SQLite browser

jedi7

timo I want use the syncing feature for this. It is the same? What I downloaded from google drive does not seem like sqlite.

timo

The sync files are encrypted with a hard-coded key that I will not disclose.
I might add an option for another encrpytion in the future, see here.

jedi7

Imho it should be easy to add option (maybe EditText with password flag) for specification of own key. Option can be prefilled with the hardcoded one. So if somebody wants without enc, (for example when the storage is on his own cloud) then just delete the password.

Guillermo

I feel that a Web Client is the best feature that you can improve for Diarium. Like you said, writing with the speed that a keyboard provides is the best way for input our memories, and sometimes I dont have access to my personal computer in order to install any app client...

alfabeta

It is unfortune that the web app is unlikely to be published. I understand some of the why. Of course that required server etc. Anyway I woul appreciate a web version very much due to the flexibility even if the windows app cannot be installed on a business machine for instance or the android is not convenient for adding long entries.

RobertSpencer

Out of curiosity, how many of you asking for a web app would be happy with a self hosted one? As in you find your own server space, install the web app yourself, and keep it updated.

Guillermo

RobertSpencer Sounds interesting, what do you mean by that? Maybe I would be interested...
Maybe you can improve more security with your own storage without dropbox or similars...

Ko

RobertSpencer I would be interested in that! It can be a self-hosted software to be run on a linux machine or home server raspberry pi. I don't mind if the software is released with a paid licence.

RobertSpencer

Guillermo I'm not entirely sure how to explain it differently than I have already.

I have experience with web servers, and coding for such. Any coding I do would be designed to run in a server environment, not on a desktop (although anyone with Linux or Docker experience would know how to get around that if they want it on their desktop machine).

I would also prefer to not have the expense of hosting other peoples content if I can avoid it, hence the self hosting angle.

Did I do a better job of explaining myself?

RobertSpencer

Ko Thank you for the interest. At this point in time it's still in the development stage and is not planned to be a paid service.

markus

RobertSpencer I have experience with web servers, and coding for such. Any coding I do would be designed to run in a server environment, not on a desktop (although anyone with Linux or Docker experience would know how to get around that if they want it on their desktop machine).

I just stumbled over a former desktop application, which someone has transformed into a docker application, running on its own webserver. I'm using it even on docker desktop on a windows machine because it's so simple, start the container, use it, kill the container. This is a really convenient way for users as well as for developers and I hope more and more applications will be supplied as containers in the future.

Ko

RobertSpencer by the way, are you using .net? If so, you can check out Duplicati for more inspirations. It is a .net program which runs as a server and is primarily made for Windows (because of .net) and then on Linux it runs using mono. Then, the user interface is all web-based with a local server.
You can find the source code here: https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati