How do you deal with Privacy?

Posted by Simon
Aug 30, 2021 at 10:17 AM

Some good suggestions. Thank you! I hadn’t realised Obsidian sync is encrypted so Dynalist can’t access the data (https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+%26+add-on+services/Obsidian+Sync#What+is+end-to-end+encryption).

Day One is also an option, although for my purposes more limited.

Tiddlywiki is also an option as you can encrypt your doc.

The challenge for me and I suspect others is not really wanting to separate data. Having to remove personal or sensitive info and store elsewhere leaves an incomplete knowledge base.

As much as I love apps like workflowy and Roam, ultimately privacy is going to force my hand because of its legal implications. Sadly governments are not necessarily good players and rogue employees, or hackers will always leave a risk concern in the back of my mind. If I know only I hold the keys then that alleviates that issue and gives peace of mind.

I’m hoping more apps will bake encryption in right from the start. Having said that I know in the UK the government is working hard to ban encrypted connections, which would be an unmitigated disaster and change the way I would have to work.