Chiriku
If you really want a completely secure journal, why not just use Microsoft Word and save it to a memory stick? Then you could tuck the stick in a little box or somewhere between uses. Or if you have your own personal laptop, save somewhere that is password protected directly on the computer.
Well, the thing is that I do like the all the visual layout options and perks provided by online blogs and so forth. I always have multiple images in an entry--both scans or photos of the cards and readings, and various other images I find online.
The other thing I greatly value and don't want to do without is a tagging system. Right now, I have a tag for each of the 78 cards as well as a tag for each deck I use, plus thematic tags about my life ("career," "religion," etc).
If there were some sort of system that does all of this without being online/hackable, I'd switch to that. Anyone know of anything? Is Evernote online or is its own software?
Then there's always the valid point that storage on hardware, whether flash drive, external hard drive, or computer, is always subject to physical damage, loss, theft.
On the other hand, I feel ambivalent about exclusively online things like blogs or cloud drives because I'm not in control of that and who knows what could happen in the future? I picture all sorts of apocalyptic scenarios such as major Google/Penzu/Cloud Drive hacks or loss of data due to technical bugs. Another problem is that I'll never have a printable record for myself (printing blog pages with all their pictures and backgrounds and links is just impracticable), and I have found that I greatly enjoy and learn from flipping through my old journals.
I don't know yet what I'll do. As of this past week, my tarot blogging is halted due to my security paranoia and this year I have gotten so much in the habit of writing up each self-reading I do that this has put a hold on my self-readings as well. I don't feel right doing a reading and not recording it somewhere.
I feel the same way as you about writing with pen and paper, now. It's almost physically uncomfortable to write for more than a few minutes. Very great shame, in my view. I lamented it in one of my first threads here, in fact.