Lunatask is an all-in-one encrypted to-do list, reminder list, habit tracker, journaling, life-tracking and notes & knowledge management app.
Why I think this tool should be added
If used well and as intended with all features and functionality provided, this tool can manage your life better than you think it can - no more fragmented notes, to-do’s, and info in calendars in several places. The app keeps you organized really well and keeps your life from being overwhelmed. They explain it well on their own website here Tasks | Lunatask.
It is an equally good if not a better tool for what a notebook has the potential to be for all your knowledge management needs. Lunatask works as you want it to and for what you need it. It has a unique way to ensure you set up the app with your info that is practical in the format of a workflow so you’re not distracted by everything that needs to be done - whether it be for your tasks, writing, or notes management.
It is also private and secure in nature by design as it has E2EE. It is best explained on its website:
Lunatask uses Curve25519, XSalsa20, and Poly1305, together with argon2id as a key derivation function. To ensure there are no implementation mistakes, encryption is delegated to an open-source NaCl networking and cryptography library – specifically this independently audited implementation (GitHub - dchest/tweetnacl-js: Port of TweetNaCl cryptographic library to JavaScript). Where client-side encryption is not possible (i.e. when using server-side integrations), server-side encryption is done using Ruby bindings for libsodium (https://doc.libsodium.org/).
This more than enough should meet privacy and security conscious people’s needs for how well such a tool should be made especially with all that it can do.
Lunatask has garnered a very good reputation for all that it offers and how. And these are my reasons why I think it should be added to Privacy Guides as an official recommendation.
I’m in touch with their team. I’ll get back with what they say. Let’s find out together. They’ve already responded once. But I’ve asked a follow up question so waiting on that.
1Password was listed a long time ago, and it’s not clear it would be added to the site if it were nominated today (given its closed-source nature and diminishing lead UI and feature-wise).
I don’t appreciate how Lunatask labels themselves an open platform when what they mean is that they have an extensible platform. These are not the same thing and should not be conflated with each other.
I also think it’s worth considering the fact that Obsidian isn’t recommended (AFAIK) solely because of its closed-source nature, despite the fact that it works with fully open markdown files. Lunatask, in contrast, is not only closed-source but also uses proprietary formats. Admittedly, they have some sort of export function, but even assuming that works perfectly, it’s still a disadvantage compared to open formats like markdown, etc.
Thanks. Question specifically was about how to integrate a synced git repo (via Syncthing) into mobile workflow.
At least Joplin doesn’t seem to be able to directly access/sync from git repo. Is that possible with one of the other tools?
