GitJournal - Notes with Git

GitJournal

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About this app

Git Journal is a note taking / journaling app built with privacy and data portability in mind. It stores all its notes in a standardised Markdown + YAML header format or plaintext. The notes are stored in a hosted Git Repo of your choice - GitHub / GitLab / Gitea / Gogs / Any Custom-provider.

Features -

- Offline First - All yours notes are available offline
- No Account Required
- Categorize your Notes with Folders
- Open source / Free Software / FOSS
- Can easily be extended and integrated with other Git tools
- Can also be used to manage Hugo / Jekyll / Gatsby websites
- No Ads
- Built with Flutter


Never need to import / export your notes, as you always have control of the data. Apps may come and go, but your notes will always be with you.

The app comes with a clean, easy to use interface designed to focus on just writing your journal entries without any distractions.

We have chosen Git as a backend as self-hosting a Git server is much simpler than almost any other software, additionally there are already many commercial providers of Git. So you can choose who you want to trust with your notes. We currently don't support encrypting the notes, but it's something we're actively working on.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great app. I've only had one issue where I lost a bit of data. Not sure if it was just some weird merge issue or what but I temporarily lost data after not opening the app for a couple weeks (but made changes from my pc to the git repo). Update: seems like if you edit the git repo outside of the app, it will just undo your changes next time you sync.

I want to love this. There are just so many little paper cuts that I can't ever rely on it. I had to go thru huge heroics and mess to change the default branch from 'main'. And it regularly just says 'failed to save note' and you have to force close. Dev has also removed subscription part, so guessing it's abandoned or will be soon.

As developer, I always wanted to sync my markdown with cloud so that I can continuously work on it while I am only with the phone. After battaling with a lot of cloud tools and combinations, I landed in heaven with Typora(laptop/desktop)+GitJournal(phone)+GitHub. Just want to thank you for such a wonderful concept and creation! Personally, I prefer set sync frequency to manual under git remote settings so that I have less commits and sync only when I am ready. Then eveything is perfect!

What’s new

* Add support for YYYY-MM-DD in the YAML frontmatter
* Add a button to export the repo as a zip
* Small bug fixes