<story><title>Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/journal-raises-1-5-million-to-bring-google-like-search-to-your-personal-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>raesene9</author><text>The challenge, for me, with a service like this is security. To effectively search all of my personal information, this service will need creds to see all of my personal data.&lt;p&gt;That makes this service a tempting target for attackers.&lt;p&gt;From an initial read through the ToS and Privacy Policy I don&amp;#x27;t get the impression that they&amp;#x27;re going for a zero-knowledge model where data is processed on a client, so that means that their server-side apps will need to access&amp;#x2F;process my personal data as part of provision of the service.&lt;p&gt;Now I have no reason to doubt their committment to security, however I also don&amp;#x27;t have a great deal of information that would allow me to say &amp;quot;yep this looks like somewhere I want to trust with all my personal details&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;One recommendation I would make to the team, is provide a bit more information about the steps you&amp;#x27;re taking to secure data processed on this service and also talk about the third party assurance that you&amp;#x27;re getting over those controls.&lt;p&gt;Also (personal peeve perhaps) but that bit on the front page about &amp;quot;industry standard encryption&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t really useful. TLS won&amp;#x27;t save me if the web app. has SQL Injection :)</text></comment>
<story><title>Journal raises $1.5M to bring Google-like search to your personal life</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/16/journal-raises-1-5-million-to-bring-google-like-search-to-your-personal-life/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>samiur1204</author><text>Hi guys,&lt;p&gt;Samiur from Journal here (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usejournal.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;usejournal.com&lt;/a&gt;). We started Journal with the goal of reducing information overload, and to see what would be possible if our knowledge  -  about people, projects, and ideas -  was connected and easily accessible.&lt;p&gt;We think of what we&amp;#x27;re building as a new kind of journal. You write notes in it, save interesting links, and drop in important documents and messages for later. When you need something, ask Journal, and it helps you find it.&lt;p&gt;Eventually, we see it becoming a connected home to gather and share knowledge. You use the best services for issues, documents, messaging and more — and Journal ties them all together. We currently support integrations to Google (Gmail, Calendar, Drive) Slack, Dropbox (Files and Paper), Evernote, Pocket, and Atlassian (Jira and Confluence).&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#x27;re coming out of community beta today, and would love to hear your feedback!&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;d like an early access code, please reply to this comment.</text></comment>