Is something like more linux packages in the works?

Anything would be preferable to flatpak (as it stands, the install takes me over 1GB for a journal app), though it'd be ideal if there were repo packages (PPA, AUR) or even installable files (deb, rpm, zst, tgz). Alternatively, snaps and appimages are also more efficient than flatpaks and thus more tolerable for being non-native packages.

The software looks great, but I'm afraid distributing it only via flatpak makes it too heavy for a markdown journal (about as heavy as native packages for libreoffice, firefox, emacs, obsidian and brave combined).

The date files, instead of being in date folders, should be directly in month folders, especially since the software is designed to support just one entry per date. The current organisation of one-file date folders seem like a redundant step in navigation. (Though I'd argue keeping entries together even if it supported multiple entries using exact timestamps as titles.)

Also, suggestively, the month folder can be, for example, 07 instead of 7. That would keep the order consistent on older systems which could only read numbers per digit in sorting.

OS: Ubuntu 21.04 ( 64-bit)

Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway. qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

/app/bin/runner.sh: line 1: 3 Aborted (core dumped) python3 /app/src/main/python/main.py

Describe the bug When uninstalling Pepys, the entry still remains in appwiz.cpl

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run winget install pepys -s winget
2. Wait for the install to finish
3. Open appwiz.cpl
4. Double click on Pepys and confirm the uninstall
5. Wait for the uninstall to finish
6. Refresh appwiz.cpl
7. Note the app still appears

Expected behavior Uninstall removes the Registry Entries for Pepys

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Microsoft Windows 10 build 19041.1586
• Version: Pepys 1.5.0

Additional context This bug causes winget to think the application is installed when it isn't

Feature description: This adds a new feature to generate statistics about the tags of all entry files. This provides a simple tool for habit tracking or track the progress of activities. As tags are interpreted from yaml syntax, it is possible to add a value to each tag: e.g. tags: [sport, running: 4.5] to add a tag sport and a tag running with a value for the distance. For this example tag analysis can give insight, how often you did sports every week or what distance was covered running every month.

Implementation: This PR adds a new tab 'Tag analysis' to the EntryExplorer, where you can enter a tag name and a time interval (day/week/month/year). On button click all the tags of all entry files are inspected and a table of the selected tag within the time intervals is generated. It is possible to show the number of tag occurrences, the tag values or the value sum as the result in the table.

Additional small change: Tags have an individual color in the calendar view to distinguish them easier.

The PR is ready to be merged. Maybe the color appearance of the UI elements in the analysis tab could be improved, but I don't know how the Qt style sheet works.

• The entry explorer serves as a tab container for calendar view and the new search widget.
• In the search widget the user can start a fulltext search (case insensitive), matching diary entries are listed in the table.
• Clicking on the result opens the diary entry.
• Search is performed in a background thread to prevent the GUI from freezing on long searches. The user can break an ongoing search.

Usage

• If encryption is not initialized nothing changes and Pepys can be used as normal.
• Encryption can be initialized via the button in the settings window. When initialized the user must enter the password at every start of the program.
• With initialized encryption the user can select via the lock icon at the entry's toolbar if the entry file is stored as a markdown file (.md) or as an encrypted file (.md.crypt).
• In the calendar view a small lock icon marks encrypted entries.
• In the settings window the user can choose to encrypt new entry files as default. Furthermore, there are two button to convert all entry files in the diary directory to encrypted or plain text.
• Encryption can be deactivated again in the settings window: All entry files are converted to plain text and the password request is removed.

Technical implementation

• Symmectric Fernet encryption from the cryptography library is used for text encryption.
• With the PBKDF2HMAC function the cryptographic key is derived from the password. As encryption should only depend on the password, a fixed salt is used.
• The password is not stored anywhere, but a SHA256 hash of the key is written to the config file to indicate if encryption is enabled and as a check if the password was entered correctly.

Open issues

• The cryptography library was added to the requirements.txt, but I did not update the file python3-requirements.json. Is this necessary?
• Also, I didn't test if the setups build or work correctly with the new dependency on the library cryptography.

Hello,

I did a little refactoring and added some features.The main changes are as following:

1. I moved all file access and file name operations for the diary entries to the class EntryFile to keep them in one single place.
2. Diary entry files are only created if they have real content (and not only the header). This prevents creating "empty" files when clicking in a calendar cell without editing the text.
3. As I found saving the text to a file at every key press too frequently, it is now called whenever the mouse leaves the EditPane (leaveEvent).
4. In the settings the user can choose that the diary entries are stored in a flat file structure: All new files are then created in the year folder of the diary directory and images are placed in the common subdirectory 'images'. If the option is not selected, the file structure is as before. In both cases existing diary entries are not touched and shown correctly in the calendar view.

Feel free to ask in case of any questions.

Best regards!

Hello,

I found your awesome project and maybe want to do some slight enhancements for my personal need. To gain a first insight into the code I did a mini-improvement on the calendar view:

• Mark the current day
• Grey out days without diary entry

Feel to merge my changes into the main branch!

Best regards!

I'm using the flatpak version of Pepys and I moved my journal to a USB drive. I updated the config file to point to the new location of my journal, however Pepys couldn't access it. I noticed the flatpak permissions only include the home directories.
On my system I manually added filesystem permission for Pepys to the /media directory and this solved my problem (sudo flatpak override dev.lukebriggs.pepys --filesystem=/media/). I submitted this in hopes of getting this added to the flatpak version, but I do not know if there are any downsides to adding this directory to the permissions. I'm also using Linux Mint and I'm not familiar with other distros to know if they auto mount drives to the /media directory or to another.

I suggest there should be options for changing the spell checker dictionary or just disable it. It would help if there was a menu to control the text font and size.
If it would be possible to retain these settings between sessions, it would be ideal.