🌿 VaultBook for Life

A private home for
your journal. your memories. your whole life.

Journal. Track your health. Capture travel. Manage money. Pursue every hobby. Build the second brain you've always needed — private, offline, and entirely yours.

Journaling
Health & habits
Travel memories
Personal finance
Hobbies & projects
Learning & courses
Family & memories
Ideas & inspiration
0 B
sent to any server. Ever.
content layers searched
AES-256
per-entry encryption
60d
version history per note
How it fits

A day in your life with VaultBook

VaultBook doesn't demand a workflow. It fits around the moments when you naturally want to capture, remember, or find something.

6:30
AM
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Morning journal
Six sentences before coffee.
Three things you're grateful for. One thing you're dreading. One thing that would make today great. Encrypted entry. No algorithm will ever read it.
GratitudeMorning routineEncrypted 🔒
7:15
AM
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Health tracking
Log the run. Note the ankle.
5.2km, 31 minutes. Left ankle slightly tight — same spot as last Tuesday. Marked the entry. Now if it becomes a pattern, QA search will find it in seconds.
ExerciseHealth logStreak: 6 🔥
12:30
PM
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Ideas & learning
Article about decision fatigue — saved immediately.
You paste the text and VaultBook files it under Cognitive Biases. Related Entries surfaces three notes you wrote 8 months ago on the same theme. The ideas connect without any effort.
PsychologyCognitive biasesRelated entry found
6:45
PM
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Hobby archive
You try the biryani recipe again. Third attempt.
This time you photograph Ma's handwritten card and paste it in. OCR reads the ingredients from her handwriting. The whole card is searchable now — forever.
CookingFamily recipeOCR'd ✓Encrypted 🔒
9:00
PM
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Reading notes
Twenty minutes with the Gita. Three lines underlined.
You write the passage, your interpretation, and a half-formed question. The attached commentary PDF is indexed. One day you'll search "equanimity" and this will surface — with everything you were thinking tonight.
PhilosophyVedantaPDF indexed
10:30
PM
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Evening reflection
One honest paragraph before bed.
What happened. What you felt. What you'd do differently. Mood: 7/10. Tagged "tired" and "grateful". It took four minutes. In five years, you'll be glad you wrote it.
ReflectionMood: 7/10Encrypted 🔒
Eight areas, one workspace

Your whole life. Not just part of it.

Most apps are built for one thing and do it imperfectly. VaultBook holds everything — because real life doesn't stay inside categories.

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Journaling & Reflection
Daily entries, mood tracking, gratitude logs, and yearly reviews. Fully encrypted, searchable across years.
Rich text · Mood labels · Encryption
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Health & Habits
Track workouts, sleep, medications, symptoms, and streaks. Your medical history stays on your device.
Habit dots · Medical PDFs · Patterns
✈️
Travel & Memories
Trip logs with OCR'd photos, itineraries, packing lists, and restaurant names. Searchable forever.
Page per trip · OCR photos · Attachments
💰
Personal Finance
Budget notes, investment records, net worth tracking, and financial goals — encrypted and indexed.
XLSX indexed · Due dates · Encrypted
🎨
Hobbies & Projects
Recipes, garden logs, music practice, photography notes — with scanned cards OCR'd and manuals indexed.
OCR cards · PDF manuals · Hierarchy
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Learning & Courses
Book notes, language learning, online courses, and a personal knowledge base that compounds over time.
Related entries · Vote learning · PDF notes
❤️
Family & Relationships
Letters never sent, family history, scanned photos, anniversaries, and things meant to be passed on.
Encrypted · OCR photos · Due dates
💡
Ideas & Inspiration
Shower thoughts, clippings, article saves, sparks of creativity. Vote-based search learns what matters most.
Quick capture · Vote learning · Related
Inside each use case

How VaultBook fits into your life

Six of the most personal ways people use VaultBook — each one deeper than any single-purpose app.

Recent entries
Thursday · March 5, 2026
"Walked to the park at sunrise. Reminded me that the best mornings are the ones I don't plan. Grateful for the cold air and the silence and the fact that nobody needed anything from me for twenty minutes."
Calm · 8/10
GratitudeMorningReflection
Wednesday · March 4, 2026
"Long call with Ma. She mentioned the mango tree in the backyard is blooming early this year. I should visit before April. There's something about that tree I keep meaning to write down properly."
Nostalgic · 7/10
FamilyMemory
Yearly review · December 31, 2025
"Three things I kept: morning walks, reading before bed, saying no to things that drain me. Three things to build this year: patience, presence, Portuguese. One thing to let go: the version of myself that needs to explain everything."
Intentional
Yearly reviewGoals
Mood · February 2026
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Journaling & Reflection

A journal that's actually private

Your most honest thoughts deserve the most private home. VaultBook's journal is encrypted, offline, and completely unseen by any company, algorithm, or advertiser. It runs from a single file on your machine — nothing ever leaves it.

1
Write freely — rich text or plain prose
Headings, callouts, blockquotes, bold, and checklists — or just free-flowing paragraphs. VaultBook gets out of the way.
2
Tag mood, themes, and recurring feelings
Labels like "Grief", "Gratitude", "Milestone" let you trace emotional patterns across months and years automatically.
3
Search your past self in natural language
"What was I feeling in October 2023?" returns exact entries ranked by relevance. Revisit any season of your life in seconds.
4
Encrypt the entries that need it most
Therapy notes, grief entries, and anything truly vulnerable get AES-256-GCM with an independent password only you know.
Habit tracker — week of Mar 3
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Morning run
5.2 km avg · 6:12/km pace
🔥 6 streak
💊
Vitamin D + Magnesium
3,000 IU + 300mg prescribed
✓ 7/7
😴
Sleep 7h+
Avg 7.3h this week
5/7
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Meditation
10 min · Vipassana technique
🔥 6 streak
💧
2L water
Tracked with timestamps
6/7
🤕
Symptom log — left ankle
Tightness noted Mar 4, 6 — monitoring
Health & Habits

Your health data belongs to you

Fitness apps sell your data. Health apps sync to clouds you don't control. VaultBook keeps your symptoms, medications, cycle tracking, sleep data, and mental health notes on your device only — encrypted if you want, searchable always.

1
Log habits with labels and weekly views
Create daily habit entries with labels like "Exercise", "Medication", "Sleep". The Timetable view shows every habit in a weekly grid automatically.
2
Attach your medical documents
Blood test PDFs, doctor's notes, prescription scans — deep indexed and searchable. "What was my ferritin in March 2024?" returns the result.
3
Find patterns QA search reveals
"When do my migraines cluster?" surfaces the symptom log entries. Spot what your memory doesn't track but your notes do.
4
Encrypt everything truly sensitive
Mental health notes, cycle logs, and therapy summaries each have an independent AES-256 password. No shared key, no shared risk.
Travel library
🇯🇵 Kyoto & Osaka — Nov 2025
12 days · 47 entries · 214 photos OCR'dSolo
Pages: Temples · Food log · Day-by-day · Things I'd do differently. Attached: rail pass PDF, hostel confirmations, restaurant map photo with OCR'd names.
🇮🇳 Kolkata family trip — Dec 2024
10 days · 31 entriesFamilyAnnual
Ma's recipes captured. Old photo scans OCR'd for names and dates. Childhood memories reconstructed from conversations. Encrypted entries for private moments.
🇵🇹 Lisbon — April 2026 (planning)
7 days · 9 planning entries so farIn progress
Restaurant shortlist, neighbourhood guide, Portuguese vocabulary pages, packing list. Budget tracker attached as XLSX — indexed and searchable.
Travel & Memories

Travel logs that outlast every cloud

Cloud photo apps change their terms, raise prices, or shut down. Your travel memories deserve storage you fully control. VaultBook lets you build rich trip archives — notes, scanned documents, photo captions, and itineraries — all searchable and offline.

1
One page per trip, sub-pages for each thread
Day-by-day, food log, things learned, packing retrospec­tive — each as its own page nested under the trip.
2
OCR every photo, menu, and sign
Paste photos inline and VaultBook extracts any text — restaurant signs, handwritten notes, menu pages. All becomes searchable.
3
Search across all trips instantly
"Which ryokan had the outdoor bath?" — QA search finds it across every trip, regardless of how long ago you were there.
4
Plan future trips in the same place
Planning notes, budget spreadsheets, and vocabulary pages live alongside the archive — Related Entries connects past experiences to present plans.
Finance notes — Feb 2026 🔒 Encrypted
📈
Index fund rebalance
Shifted 8% bonds → equity. Reasoning documented.
↑ +8%
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Emergency fund
6 months target · ₹4.2L / ₹4.8L
87%
💳
Monthly budget — March
Food ₹8k · Transport ₹3k · Subscriptions ₹1.8k
−₹12.8k
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FD maturity — HDFC
Due April 15, 2026 · ₹2L
⏰ 40d
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Annual net worth snapshot
XLSX attached · 5 sheets · all cells indexed
Indexed
🔐
Salary & offer history
AES-256 · independent password
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Personal Finance

Your finances deserve real privacy

Salary details, investment allocations, and net worth are among the most sensitive things you own. A finance tracker that syncs to any server is a liability. VaultBook keeps every number, note, and spreadsheet on your machine — encrypted, searchable, and yours.

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Encrypt every sensitive entry
Salary notes, investment decisions, and net worth each get their own AES-256 password — fully independent and isolated.
2
Attach and index your spreadsheets
Drop in your XLSX budget models or investment trackers. Every cell is searchable — find any figure without opening the file.
3
Set due dates on financial obligations
FD maturities, insurance renewals, loan repayments — due dates surface them in the "Due" sidebar tab before they expire.
4
Build a decision log for money choices
Record why you made each major financial decision. "Why did I choose this fund?" is answerable years later with your own reasoning attached.
Hobby library
🍛 Ma's mutton biryani — reconstructed
CookingFamily recipeEncrypted 🔒
3 attempts documented. Notes on spice ratios, soaking times, clay pot technique. Original handwritten card photographed and OCR'd — every word searchable.
🌱 Balcony garden — spring 2026
GardeningSeasonal
Planting log: spinach (Mar 2), mint (Mar 5), cherry tomatoes (Mar 10). Soil mix notes, watering schedule. Seed packet PDFs indexed via JSZip.
🎸 Guitar — chord progressions
MusicPractice log
Capo 3 — Am–F–C–G for most things. Bm barre chord finally clicked Feb 14. Two tab PDFs attached and indexed. Scanned practice notes OCR'd.
📸 Street photography — 2026 project
PhotographyOngoing
12 shots per month target. Notes on light, composition decisions, location details. OCR'd location signs make everything searchable by place.
Hobbies & Projects

Every hobby deserves a real home

The problem with hobby notes isn't writing them — it's finding them again. The recipe you perfected two years ago. The guitar tab that took weeks. The garden log from last spring. VaultBook makes every passion project searchable across years.

1
Create one page per hobby with sub-pages
Cooking / Regional / Bengali, Guitar / Songs learned, Garden / By season. Your hierarchy, your logic — unlimited nesting.
2
OCR handwritten notes and scanned cards
Old recipe cards, annotated music sheets, sketches — paste as inline images and VaultBook reads the text for search.
3
Index instruction manuals and guides
Attach the PDF manual for your camera, sewing machine, or fermentation kit. Deep indexing makes every step searchable.
4
Encrypt the ones that matter most
Family recipes, personal creative work — per-entry AES-256 keeps them off every server and every algorithm forever.
Learning library
📘
The Bhagavad Gita — reading notes
Chapter-by-chapter annotations. Shankaracharya commentary attached (PDF, 312p, indexed).
72% complete
🇵🇹
Portuguese — vocabulary & phrases
Daily vocab notes + sentence examples with Lisbon trip context for every phrase learned.
34% of A2 goals
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Cognitive biases — personal database
84 biases with real examples from my own decisions. Attached: Thinking Fast and Slow highlights PDF.
58 / 100 entries
🎬
Cinema — directors I'm studying
Satyajit Ray · Bergman · Tarkovsky. Notes per film + PPTX visual language deck (indexed).
18 / 40 films
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Vedanta — study notes
Advaita, key texts, Vivekananda lectures. Swami Ranganathananda PDF attached (400p, indexed).
Long-term project
Learning & Knowledge

A second brain that gets smarter over time

VaultBook's vote-based AI learning means your knowledge base gets smarter the more you use it. Upvote useful search results and they rise. Downvote irrelevant ones and they sink. Over time, search reflects your intellectual priorities — not a generic algorithm's.

1
Capture ideas from anywhere
Paste article text, attach books and course PDFs, record lecture summaries. All indexed and searchable immediately.
2
Build your own knowledge hierarchy
Philosophy / Vedanta / Advaita, or Languages / Portuguese / Vocabulary. Entries flow down the right path with unlimited nesting.
3
Related Entries connects the dots
Notes from books you read years apart surface together automatically. Serendipitous connections emerge without any tagging effort.
4
Search like a scholar across all sources
"What did Tagore say about solitude?" retrieves the entry even if the answer lives inside an attached PDF — deep indexing reaches every word.
AI-powered search

Ask your life. Get answers.

VaultBook searches across 7 content layers simultaneously — titles, body, labels, sections, OCR text, attachment contents, and version history — and returns ranked answers in natural language.

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When did my back pain first start and what helped it?
↵ Enter
All results
Health
Journal
Attachments
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Lower back — first episode log
Health · Symptoms · September 14, 2024
"Started after the long drive to Pune. Sharp pain left side, L4 region. Rest and heat pack helped most by day 3."
98%
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Journal entry — Sep 20, 2024
Journaling · Health label
"Back finally loosening. The physiotherapist exercises are working. Note to self: these specific stretches are the ones to remember."
91%
📄
Physiotherapy exercises — attached PDF
Attachment inside "Lower back — first episode" · page 2
McKenzie extension protocol · 3 sets · morning and evening
87%
💊
Ibuprofen course — dosage notes
Health · Medications · September 2024 · Encrypted 🔒
Decryption required to view full entry. Preview: "Doctor advised 3-day course of 400mg..."
82%
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October 2024 monthly review
Journaling · Monthly review
"Back fully recovered by the end of the month. Lesson: don't sit 8 hours in a single stretch without breaks."
74%
5 results · searched 3,847 entries · 0.18s
Titles
Body text
Labels
PDF content
Sections
OCR
Versions
Everything searchable

Your attachments are knowledge now, not dead weight

Every file you attach becomes part of your searchable library. VaultBook reads inside eight file types and makes every word findable.

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PDF
via pdf.js + OCR
Text layer extracted. Scanned pages run through OCR. Doctor's notes, contracts, and book pages become searchable word by word.
Plus
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XLSX / XLSM
via SheetJS
Every cell in every sheet indexed. Budget models, investment trackers, and habit spreadsheets searchable at the cell level.
Pro
📋
PPTX
via JSZip
All slide text and speaker notes extracted. Travel mood boards, learning presentations, and visual plans fully searchable.
Pro
🗜️
ZIP archives
via JSZip
Contents extracted and indexed. Export archives from other apps land as searchable knowledge automatically.
Pro
📧
MSG (Outlook)
via MSG parser
Email subjects, body text, and nested attachments indexed. Archive important correspondence alongside your notes.
Pro
🖼️
Images (inline)
via Tesseract OCR
Paste photos inline — handwritten recipe cards, whiteboard notes, scanned family photos with captions — all text extracted.
Plus
📝
Markdown / TXT
plain text
Export from Obsidian, Day One, or any app that supports Markdown. Imported entries become searchable entries instantly.
Free
📂
Any text file
UTF-8 extraction
CSV exports, log files, course transcripts, subtitle files — if it has text, VaultBook indexes it and makes it findable.
Free
Privacy by architecture

Your personal life deserves personal privacy

The most intimate things you'll ever write deserve the strictest guarantee. VaultBook provides it through architecture, not policy.

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Zero network requests. Ever.
VaultBook makes no outgoing connections — not for sync, not for analytics, not for "improving the product". Your journal entries, health logs, and financial notes are never transmitted anywhere. Disconnect from the internet and nothing changes.
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Per-entry encryption, per-entry password.
Each encrypted entry uses AES-256-GCM with its own unique 16-byte salt, 12-byte IV, and key derived from 100,000 PBKDF2 SHA-256 iterations. Therapy notes, financial records, and grief entries each have an independent password. One compromised key never exposes another.
📁
Plain files. Your folder. Your rules.
VaultBook stores everything as JSON files in a folder you choose. Back it up with Time Machine, copy it to a USB drive, or keep multiple copies across machines. You don't need permission, an export button, or an internet connection to access your own life's data.
What this means in practice

Nobody has ever seen your vault. Including us.

We don't have a server that stores your entries. We don't have an API that receives your searches. We don't have telemetry that logs your usage. VaultBook is a file that runs in your browser — between you and your machine, and nowhere else.

If VaultBook shuts down tomorrow
Your data stays in your folder, unchanged. The HTML file keeps working in any Chromium browser indefinitely.
If there's a data breach somewhere
Nothing leaks — there's nothing on any server to breach. Your data has never left your machine.
If the app's terms of service change
Irrelevant. You own the file. No terms of service can retroactively govern data that was never transmitted.
Security architecture
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Outbound network requests
Total connections made per session
0
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Encryption algorithm
AES-256-GCM · PBKDF2 · 100k iterations
☁️
Cloud sync
No account, no server, no sync
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Analytics or telemetry
Zero data collection of any kind
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Decrypted data on disk
Plaintext exists in-memory only
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Data portability
Plain JSON files · copy folder to migrate
Works without internet
100% offline — all features available
How it stacks up

VaultBook vs. the alternatives for personal use

Every competitor makes the same tradeoff: convenience in exchange for your data. VaultBook refuses it.

Capability
VaultBook
Day One
Notion
Obsidian
Truly offline — zero network requests
Per-entry AES-256 encryption
Vault-level only
Plugin
Natural-language QA search
Plugin
Deep indexing of PDF, XLSX, PPTX attachments
Inline OCR for images and handwriting
Vote-based search personalisation
60-day version history per entry
Paid
Paid
Plugin
Mood tracking with visual calendar
Manual
Plugin
No subscription, no account required
Data survives app shutdown
It compounds over time

What a personal library looks like after five years

The value of VaultBook isn't what you capture today. It's the searchable record of everything you've ever cared about.

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Month 1
You start journalling. A few entries a week.
Daily notes, some habit tracking, a recipe to remember. The archive is small — but the habit of capture is forming. Search already works, even on 20 entries.
~20 entriesLabels taking shapeFirst encryption
✈️
Month 6
A trip gets captured properly for the first time.
Day-by-day notes, restaurant names OCR'd from photos, a budget spreadsheet attached and indexed. You realise this beats any travel blog you'd never actually write.
~180 entriesFirst deep-indexed PDFsPage tree forming
🧠
Year 1
QA search starts earning its keep.
"What was that café in Lisbon?" or "When did the ankle pain start?" return exact entries you'd completely forgotten writing. The library starts paying dividends.
~600 entriesVote learning activeHealth + finance encrypted
💡
Year 2
Related Entries becomes a daily surprise.
You open a note and VaultBook surfaces something you wrote 14 months ago on the same theme. Ideas begin connecting across time. The library thinks alongside you.
~1,400 entriesRelated Entries in daily useSearch fully personalised
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Years 3–5
It becomes a record of who you are.
Yearly reviews show growth. Old journal entries feel unrecognisable and invaluable. The knowledge base holds more of your mind than memory can. No cloud company has ever seen any of it.
3,000+ entriesYears of habit dataIrreplaceable · entirely yours
❤️
Anytime
You share it, or you don't. That's the point.
Everything lives in a plain folder you own. Copy it to a new machine by copying a folder. Encrypt the whole thing at the OS level if you want. Nobody has a copy — not even us.
Zero cloud0 bytes ever transmittedYour call, always
Who uses it

People who take their inner life seriously

VaultBook attracts people who care about depth, privacy, and building knowledge that genuinely lasts.

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The reflective journaller
Daily writing, yearly reviews, mood tracking
"I've journalled for six years. VaultBook is the first tool where I've never once worried that someone might read it."
Daily entries with mood, theme, and gratitude labels
Yearly review pages with a section for each life area
Encrypted entries for therapy notes and vulnerability writing
QA search to trace how a feeling has evolved over years
✈️
The obsessive traveller
Trip archives, itineraries, memory capture
"Every trip since 2022 is in VaultBook. I can find the name of a restaurant from three years ago without scrolling through Instagram."
Hierarchical page per trip with day-by-day sub-pages
Photos with OCR'd text — signs, menus, handwritten notes
Attached boarding passes, itinerary PDFs, visa documents
Planning notes linked to the same trip page
💰
The private finance tracker
Budgets, investments, financial decisions
"I track everything from net worth to grocery budgets. The idea of that data on someone else's server never sat right with me."
AES-256 encrypted entries for salary, investment, and tax data
XLSX budget models attached and searchable at cell level
Due dates on FD maturities, renewals, and loan payments
Decision log for major financial choices with full context
📚
The lifelong learner
Books, courses, philosophy, language learning
"I've read hundreds of books. VaultBook is where the ideas actually land — connected to everything else I've ever read."
Book summaries with attached PDF highlights and annotations
Language learning pages with vocabulary and example sentences
Related Entries surfaces unexpected cross-reading connections
QA search finds ideas regardless of which source they came from
🌱
The hobby archivist
Cooking, gardening, music, photography, crafts
"My grandmother's recipes, my garden log, my guitar notes — one searchable place. OCR even read the handwriting on her old recipe cards."
Recipes with scanned original handwritten cards OCR'd
Seasonal garden planting logs with seed packet PDFs indexed
Music practice journal with attached tabs and chord sheets
Encrypted entries for personal creative work and family heirlooms
❤️
The memory keeper
Family history, milestones, old photographs
"I'm building a family archive for my children. Stories from my parents, letters they'll find someday. It deserves to be private and permanent."
Scanned family photos with OCR'd captions and dates
Recorded family stories transcribed and indexed
Birthday and anniversary notes with recurring due dates
Encrypted letters and entries meant for specific people
Real people

What they say about VaultBook in their lives

"
I've tried every journalling app. The problem was always the same — at some point you read the privacy policy and realise your most honest writing is sitting on a server being scanned for "product improvement". VaultBook fixed that. It runs from a single file, makes zero network requests, and the encrypted entries are genuinely sealed. I've written things in VaultBook that I would never write in any cloud tool. That freedom changes what journalling actually is.
🧘
Daily journaller
5-year VaultBook user · personal & therapy notes
Five-year archive snapshot
January 1, 2021 · Entry #1
"Starting this as an experiment. Let's see if it sticks."
December 31, 2023 · Year 3 review
"Read back three years of entries tonight. Didn't recognise the person from 2021. That's either terrifying or the whole point."
March 5, 2026 · Entry #2,847
"Searched 'when did I stop being afraid of X?' — found the exact entry from Feb 2022. None of these 2,847 entries have ever left this machine."
"
My health journey over three years — symptoms, medications, what worked and what didn't — is all searchable. My doctor is always impressed that I can pull exact dates and dosages. The fact that none of it has ever touched a health company's server is the only reason I'm honest enough to write it all down.
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Chronic condition manager
VaultBook for health & symptom tracking
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I'm building a family archive for my children. Old photos, stories from my parents, letters I want them to find someday. The encrypted entries mean I can write things that are meant to be read at a specific time — by specific people — without worrying about a data breach in the meantime.
❤️
Parent & family historian
VaultBook as a family archive
Questions

FAQ for personal use

Can I access VaultBook on my phone?
VaultBook runs in any Chromium-based browser. Chrome on Android is fully supported. On iOS, Chrome and Edge work best. Because it's a single HTML file, you can open it directly from your Files app on mobile. For the richest experience — especially inline OCR and attachment indexing — Chrome desktop remains the primary environment, but all reading and writing works well on mobile.
How do I back up my journal if my laptop dies?
VaultBook stores everything in a plain folder you choose. Back it up with any tool you already use — Time Machine, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, an external SSD, or rsync. The data is plain JSON files. Encrypted entries stay encrypted in the backup and can only be decrypted with the correct password. You don't need VaultBook running to back up — just copy the folder.
Is my encrypted data truly private — even from VaultBook?
Yes. VaultBook makes zero network requests — there is no server, no account, no way for us to receive your data. Encrypted entries use AES-256-GCM with PBKDF2 at 100,000 SHA-256 iterations, a unique 16-byte salt, and a unique 12-byte IV per entry. We don't have your password and couldn't decrypt your entries even if we wanted to. See the Security page for the full technical specification.
Can I use VaultBook as a shared family journal or couple's diary?
Yes. Point multiple devices at the same vault folder (via a shared drive, NAS, or sync folder) and anyone with the app can read and write to it. Use per-entry encryption to keep some entries private within the shared folder — each person's private entries have their own independent password that others don't know. No per-seat pricing and no accounts to manage.
How is this different from Day One or Notion for personal use?
Day One syncs your journal to their servers and processes it on their infrastructure. Notion is similarly cloud-first. Both require accounts and ongoing subscriptions. VaultBook makes zero network requests, stores everything locally, and supports per-entry AES-256 encryption we can't break. Beyond privacy, VaultBook also indexes attached PDFs, XLSX, and images via OCR — so your recipe scans, medical documents, and travel photos all become searchable knowledge, not just stored files.
What happens to my data if VaultBook shuts down?
Nothing changes. Your data is in a folder on your device — not on our servers. If VaultBook stopped existing tomorrow, you'd still have every entry you ever wrote, every attachment, and every version snapshot. The HTML file itself continues to work indefinitely in any Chromium browser. You don't need our servers, our permission, or an internet connection to access your own data.
How do I import from Obsidian, Day One, or Evernote?
VaultBook includes a built-in Obsidian importer — drag your .md files in and they're converted to searchable VaultBook entries immediately, preserving all frontmatter as labels. For Notion exports (Markdown + CSV) and Evernote exports (.enex), the same Markdown import handles the content. Attachments can be copied directly into your attachments folder and reindexed with the ♻️ button.
Does VaultBook work on planes and in places without internet?
Completely. VaultBook is a single HTML file — once it's open in your browser, it makes zero network requests for anything at all. AI search, OCR, encryption, Kanban, version history, and all built-in tools run entirely inside your browser's JavaScript runtime. Disconnect from the internet and nothing changes. This makes it ideal for long-haul travel, secure facilities, and anywhere you value both productivity and privacy.
Your inner life deserves a place that's truly yours.

Download VaultBook — open it, write something, and keep it entirely to yourself. No cloud, no account, no one watching.