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Bash Diary

Encrypted private diary.

You can use your computer to keep a private diary. When saved with a password, the diary can also be kept from prying eyes.

Bash Diary help the user select a date and create a daily entry for the date and save the entry as a file under a new name, that is using a date-time stamp along with a password. The user can read previous entries.

How It Works

Your password locked in .pss.zip with your password. When you enter the true password it will be unlock else you will be trapped in that terminal forever.

And your diaries is locked in the .daybook.zip it will unlock with your .pss content.

Dependencies

First, install dialog:

On Debian Linux:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dialog

On On macOS

You can install dialog with Homebrew:

brew install dialog

On CentOS or Redhat Linux:

yum install dialog

Usage

./dia.sh [optional_name]

18-02-2018

18-02-2018-(optional_name)

If it is your first entry the script, you will create the password.

Note: If you enter the wrong password you will have a 3 option;

1. You will close the terminal.
2. You will keep it pressed ctrl/cmd + C.
3. Or you will be trapped in that terminal forever.

You choose the day and then you will have a text file which name is the date of your choose day, and if you have a default editor it will open with it, if is not file open with nano.

Then save the file and close the editor. And again everything will be locked.