I like the idea of a text editor specifically writing encrypted journal entries. And for that it’s nice that your app starts up ready to write today’s entry! But otherwise I found the user interface very confusing. It’s a console app, which I guess isn’t so bad for being focused on text, but I expected to be able to just double-click it. It took me a bit to figure out that I had to create my own encryption key. It would be nice if it prompted you on the first launch to create one. I also thought it was confusing that the key and entries are both stored next to the executable, and not e.g. the CWD, since I thought the point was to keep them separate.
I also thought it was confusing that the key and entries are both stored next to the executable
I think it has to do with the fact that this tool is meant to be used on a flash drive and not necessarily installed in a computer. I think the choice to have everything in one place is justified in this case.
Maybe it just needs to have params to cover more use cases e.g. ./jern --key=/some/other/dir/for/the/key.k --entries=/some/other/dir/for/the/entries/