Why your online diary is probably not so private!
Moving to an online diary is the obvious choice for most people. Your phone is already in your hand, so why not use it to clear your mind? It's far better than mindless scrolling and forces your brain to process what you're feeling.
But have you ever actually read the privacy policy for the journaling app you're using?
Yeah. They're usually not great.
The dirty little secret of the journaling app world is that in most cases, the company behind the app can read everything you type.
You don't own your words
Think about the kind of things you write in a diary. It's not for an audience. It's messy, unpolished, and unfiltered. It's venting about your boss, doubts about your relationships, and weird thoughts that hit at 2 AM.
With a traditional online diary, those thoughts travel from your phone to a server somewhere else on the internet. Maybe the connection is encrypted so nobody can intercept it on Wi-Fi. But once the company receives your entries, they have the keys.
They can read your entries. A disgruntled employee can read them. If they get hacked, strangers can read them. Some companies even scan entries to serve better ads or train AI systems.
You are effectively paying an admission fee with your most personal information for the privilege of typing in a text box.
Replacing uncertainty with math
We built askt because an online diary should not require blind trust in a web app.
We didn't write a privacy policy full of loopholes. We used math. Specifically, end-to-end encryption.
When you write in askt, your entry is transformed into unreadable ciphertext before it leaves your phone or laptop. Only then is it sent to our servers, where it remains gibberish. We cannot decrypt it. There is no backdoor. We couldn't read it even if we were forced to.
We also don't store your email address in plain text. It's hashed before storage, so even if someone breached our database, they could not extract a clean list of account emails.
Only you can read your diary on your own device.
The blank page problem
Of course, the hardest part of keeping an online diary usually isn't privacy. It's figuring out what to write.
Staring at a blank page is intimidating.
That's why we built daily prompts. You can ignore them and write freely about your day, or use them to get started when your mind feels stuck. One small prompt can get the wheels turning.
The catch: you can't lose your recovery code
Real privacy comes with a serious trade-off, and you should know it before you sign up.
Because we cannot read your data, we also cannot send a magical "forgot password" reset link that restores your encrypted journal. When you create your online diary with askt, you receive a recovery code. If you lose that code and lose access to your session, your entries are gone forever.
We cannot recover them for you.
That is the price of a truly private digital journal.
Honestly, it's worth it.
askt is an online diary with daily prompts and built-in end-to-end encryption. Try it out and start your secure online diary today.
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