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We are proud to present monkkee’s latest feature – an export function for your journal entries! While your data will of course remain securely encrypted in your monkkee account, you now have the option to download them to an unencrypted, readable HTML or PDF file or further process them in Markdown, JSON or XML format. With the new export feature we would like to give our users the possibility to save their digital notebooks locally on a backup...

A week ago, monkkee’s future was determined – at least officially. During the past year, we have received many enquiries from users asking us how we plan to ensure monkkee’s existence a few years from now. In other words: What is the business model behind monkkee? monkkee is now just over a year old and while we have taken our time to answer these questions, a few things were always clear to us: With its client-side encryption, monkkee is a...

Typed too fast again? Why not enable the automatic spell-checker of your browser and get rid of those annoying typos that have crept into your monkkee journal? The advantage: Once enabled, the spell-checker will not only let you know when you have made a mistake in your monkkee journal, it’ll also check your spelling in web forms and text fields such as your emails! Get online suggestions for spelling errors All modern browsers have a built-in...

There are hardly any better ways to increase self-awareness than keeping a journal. Writing regularly about personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings opens up new paths and possibilities and contributes to a more conscious way of living. Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Max Frisch, Albert Einstein, Che Guevara, and John Lennon already knew that a journal can provide valuable insights – all of them were passionate journal writers. Preserving...

With the latest update, monkkee now provides even better support for frequent journaling activities. Daily journal entries can quickly add up. Before long, the first 100 entries are written. Those who remain loyal to monkkee for years may even generate up to 1000 entries. To make sure that page loading times are not affected by a great number of entries, monkkee now loads your entries in an optimised way. In your journal overview, you will only...

With the release of the last update, monkkee has improved its support for mobile browsers. This is especially true for newer Android devices running Chrome, but improvements have also been achieved for other mobile operating systems and browsers. monkkee uses a visual editor, also known as a WYSIWYG editor (“What You See Is What You Get”) that offers editing features similar to those of word processing programs. The editor is the widely used...

We are pleased to announce that we have added a new feature to monkkee today – you can now insert images into your journal entries! The new feature is free and available for all monkkee users. As your textual content, your photos will be securely encrypted through monkkee’s comprehensive encryption technology, so that no one except you can see them. How to upload and insert images into your online journal When you are creating or editing an...

We started searching for a name for the online diary monkkee after the basic concept of the application had already been established. “monkkee” did not come to us immediately, of course. At first, we considered simpler names such as “My Secret Diary” or “Online Diary”, but those names were already taken. We definitely wanted a suitable domain name, so our naming process was guided by which addresses were still available. Anyone who has ever...

We are happy to announce that monkkee has officially been launched today. Internet users from all over the world now have the opportunity to create a free online diary on monkkee.com and write down their ideas and thoughts. So do you! Your entries will be encrypted directly on your computer and thus remain strictly confidential and private. With monkkee, we bring a completely new product to the market, since no other journaling or notebook...

A few days ago the official test phase of monkkee started. Together with a selected group of people we are testing monkkee from the ground up to be optimally prepared for the go-live. In addition to manual testing of the user interface, an automated load test is carried out, since we want monkkee to run smoothly even if several users write or read entries at the same time. The first testers have already given us their feedback. The design was...