incognito/shadow/private journals - (choose which journals to sync to device and which not to)

[dcharalambous]

For the security cautious/paranoid users: it would be extremely useful to have the option not to sync calendar and contacts data to the stock Android calendar and instead handle them directly within the app (which could be separately locked). Users could, of course, choose to sync data to Android, e.g. contacts for Caller IDs. Ideally, all data-at-rest should be encrypted at the app level (as opposed to the device level), thus providing an extra layer of protection (e.g. compromised devices, MDM/EMM file pull etc).

I suppose that this would involve "embedding" a calendar app/module within the etesync app which requires a lot of work - maybe just provide very basic functionality, e.g. a simple agenda view with reminders?

Thanks for listening and for all the great work put in so far.

[tasn]

This is something I've been dying to have for a long while now. It's actually not that difficult to make on the face of it. The problem is, as you said, duplicating calendar/contact functionality from within the app.

[tasn]

I completely forgot about this, but it should now be fairly easy to do in EteSync 2.0. Please remind me if it doesn't happen within the next few weeks!

[eternaltyro]

To add to why this would be a nice feature to have, here's my case: I have an old Gmail account from which I exported all contacts as a vCard file. I created a new collection on Etesync and imported contacts from the vCard file to it and suddenly, people from my past start texting me on WhatsApp. That's when I realized that WhatsApp had synced the contacts and started showing my status updates to all the people who had my number stored reminding them of me :)

For reasons I can't specify, (and you might find this obvious) this is completely not desirable! XD.

[tasn]

I didn't know WhatsApp did that - that's horrible. I know Signal does it, and it pisses me off. :(

It's definitely not desirable and I want it fixed as soon as possible too. Please remind me in a few weeks if you don't see it!

[eternaltyro]

@tasn Here's your reminder

[tasn]

I'd love to get help with this if anyone how the time. It's essentially a matter of:

1. Adding checkboxes to the main Android page - that toggle whether to sync or not
2. Only sync collections whose checkbox is set
3. Automatically add collections with the checkbox unset.