# Dragonfly Journal

A personal journaling application. Provides the user with secure encrypted journal data combined with a simple user interface so you can can quickly focus on writing journal entries in whatever time you have!

Ok so your probably already asking, why a desktop app in these days of everything internet? Fine question! There are plenty of good reasons:

- Privacy - Journals are often filled with personal thoughts, feelings and information that you may not want to share with more then 1 or two people if any at all. Why would you put that information on a compinies server it's private!
- Security - Servers get hacked, traffic on the internet is monitored all the time from corporate proxies to packet sniffers, if its private why should this sort of data leave your possession.
- portability - You can put it on a thumb drive and take it with you everywhere and remember its encrypted!
- preservation - You own your data, you can back it up, copy it save it for future generations. If History is the study of the past through written documents then in our world of rapidly discarded documentation, history is about to become history. But I digress...
- Internet access - Well this one is pretty obvious huh? If you can't connect then your out of luck.

Only you can answer the question of why keep your info local but the above are a few reasons why I do.

### License:

Dragonfly Journal is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later.

Dragonfly Journal
Copyright 2009 Lee Clarke
This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
This file is part of Dragonfly Journal.
Dragonfly Journal is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
Dragonfly Journal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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### Getting Started

Installing Dragonfly Journal:
Simply unzip the downloaded zip file to a location where you can easily find it, I would suggest creating a DragonflyJournal Folder in you Documents folder and unzipping it there. The reason is that in this current version your data is stored with the application and you'll want it where you can easily find the files for backups etc.

Running the Dragonfly:
Please Note: Dragonfly Journal requires Java 1.6 or greater! If the app doesn't run for you, check your version at a cmd prompt by typing `java -version`. To upgrade your java to 6, go to java.com

- Windows:

- Run the Dragonfly exe included in the windows only distro. (Coming soon)
- Multi-platform distro - From a file browser dbl-click on `start_dragonflyjournal.bat`
- From a command Promt: you can run the above mentioned script or simply type `java -jar DragonflyJournal.jar`

- Linux / Mac

- Multi-platform distro - From a file browser dbl-click on `dragonflyjournal.sh`
- From a command Promt: you can run the above mentioned script or simply type `java -jar DragonflyJournal.jar`

Using Dragonfly Journal:
When you first open the application you will be prompted to select a Journal and provide a password. If this it the first time there will be no Journals so first click on the New button. Enter a Journal Name and Password and click OK.

After that you in business! You can start creating Journal Entries.
More help coming soon!