When you turn on encryption, TimePeace scrambles your private entries on your own device, before they ever reach us, using a key only you hold. We keep only the scrambled version. We cannot read it, and we cannot hand it over, for a simple reason: we do not have your key.
You write. TimePeace locks it in a box only your key opens.
The sealed box travels to your account and sits there, locked.
Your key opens it here, and nowhere else can.
Lose both and even we cannot get in. That is the point.
Even we, even faced with a legal request, can only produce the sealed box. Without your passphrase or your recovery key, what is inside stays scrambled. It is the same approach Signal and Proton use: they can hand over only metadata, never your words.
It is opt-in. You choose a passphrase, and we show you a one-time recovery key to keep safe. If you lose both, even we cannot bring those entries back. That is the price of real privacy. Your account itself stays recoverable; only the encrypted content is at stake.
The personal things are: your diary, your mood, your health, and the notes you keep on people. A thin skeleton stays readable, that an entry exists and its date, so your diary can sync and search across your devices. We are honest about that line rather than promising more.
No. You pick a passphrase like any password and TimePeace does the rest: the same strong, standard encryption that protects sensitive data everywhere, with nothing for you to manage.