Bouquin

A local-first notebook & planner with encrypted storage

Bouquin ("Book-ahn") is a notebook and planner application written in Python/Qt, backed by SQLCipher so the notebook database is encrypted at rest.

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Design goals

  • Encrypted-at-rest
  • Every note is a calendar date
  • All changes are version controlled, with a 'diff' viewer
  • Revert to any previous version without losing newer versions
  • Live markdown rendering as you type
  • No syncing: deliberately offline-first
  • Tagging and search
  • One-off or recurring reminders with webhook support
  • Time tracking, invoicing and document storage features
  • Multi-lingual (English, French and Italian translations)
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