I would like to have the option to encrypt/decrypt individual notes, the required key being asked by a popup dialog. This would make it possible to e.g. maintain personal information that should not be visible unless asked for. Note this is unrelated to Joplin’s E2EE which affects storage and commu…

I have a similar desire as @sciurius Currently I’m making the transition over from Evernote to Joplin. It’s wonderful software so far! My only concern is that in certain notes I keep very sensitive passwords and used to encrypt these notes individually in Evernote so that they could not be read wi…

@jreus Welcome to the forum. When you use something like Veracrypt or Linux Mint’s inbuilt LUKS encryption the data is encrypted on your computer when the volume is not mounted / the system is powered off. It does not encrypt individual notes in Joplin. To protect them on the cloud storage you wou…

Ah, so maybe I misunderstood the functionality of E2EE in Joplin. I thought it was only doing encryption during transmission. So you’re saying that the notes are actually stored encrypted on the remote/sync server as well?

Yes, that’s right. The notes are only unencrypted on your devices with Joplin clients that are linked to the share and have the E2EE password. Basically it enables a “zero-knowledge” setup even if you use commercial cloud storage. So if your on-line storage provider has a rummage through your Joplin…

Thanks for the clarification, however, a related question. I’m writing a blog entry about Joplin for use in K-16 education. While I’m familiar with solutions like Veracrypt, etc., I’m taking an angle that Joplin offers encryption of notes AND pictures attached in a note. Imagine how this would be he…

@mguhlin I am just a user and not a dev so maybe they can give a definitive answer however in light of your post I did a test. I found an image attached to a note and noted down its resource name (something like :/012345678491437b9696718a0f091477). On my desktop computer in the resources folder I…

You're right, @dpoulton , that's exactly what I was doing. The sync had not finished. I'm glad to have that settled!! :slight_smile: Miguel Guhlin

I would also like to have the possibility to encrypt individual notes or notebooks. In that way it would be easier to keep private stuff and other non-private notebooks. Is there a plan to develop this feature?

[image] escafandra: I would also like to have the possibility to encrypt individual notes or notebooks. In that way it would be easier to keep private stuff and other non-private notebooks. Is there a plan to develop this feature? What is the use case you have in mind that you prefer non-priv…

Another vote for local encryption. The images and sqlite db are wide open. Perhaps as a start the sqlite db can be password protected. I keep personal notes on a work machine and I would like to encrypt everything under .config/joplin-desktop.

Encrypting individual notes

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_vg 8 October 2025 03:33 30

A plugins was just released to do that: Secure Notes

Kudos to @cipherswami

Secure Notes

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