Journey Cloud Storage: Is Google Drive Going Away?

Ultreya

I understand you guys are releasing Journey proprietary sync., but does that mean that the Google Drive sync option will eventually go away, or will you continue to support Google Drive sync?

John

Hi Ultreya , thank you for asking this question. Google Drive option will still be available. We will continue to support Google Drive sync. However, we are not able to add some of the features in Google Drive (hence, the reason for releasing Journey cloud sync). This includes shared journals, sorting by chronological order in web, fast & on-demand sync, elastic search in web, media, atlas & calendar in web, video streaming and more. We also plan to release an open-source version of Journey Cloud sync so that users can choose to self-host the journal entries on their servers/computers.

Here is how it will look like:

Journey cloud sync will be opened for public testing on July 2023. We will announce more information in our blog.

aditya

John That means, Journey Cloud Sync will be both Open Source & End-to-end Encrypted??! 🤯🥳

I think my search for an Open-source, End-to-end Encrypted Journaling App is going to End.

Thank you for this decision. Open-Source & E2EE must be in DNA of every Journal App.

John

aditya Yes, our goal is to make Journey Cloud Sync open source with end-to-end encryption capability. We absolutely agree with you that this should be found in every journal app and we hope Journey is the first one to make this move. 🙂

aditya

John 😍

Ultreya

This is awesome!

From my understanding, it won't be possible for Journey sync to grab all Google Drive data automatically (upon user request), correct? I will have to download bulk entry and upload to Journey proprietary sync? Will there be auto cloud-to-cloud sync feature, do you think? I have way too many entries to have to download just to upload manually again.

John

Ultreya Hi Ultreya, we plan to implement this feature after beta testing. As of now, you can choose to export recent selected entries and import it into Journey Cloud Sync if you wish to give it a try. Thanks!