You are absolutely correct. If for whatever reason I give my device to someone else it will have a guest account, or in iphone case you can lock the app with touch/face ID. My password manager will always require authentication.
So if I have a note I want to let someone read on my phone, I have to give them access to the entire database? By the way FaceID lock is a relatively recent thing.
It’s obvious that we have very different understanding of that whole individual note security thing.
Is there any app that you can link to notes and keep the structure that use a standard format to export to other apps?
Not sure I understand the question. Are you talking about Apple Notes or Joplin ?
I am interested in this.
1) So you have a Cryptomator folder locally and you just use it as you wish and it just does its own thing in the background?
2) Are the files stored locally then encrypted and sent to the cloud as backup or are the files actually in the cloud and you have to wait for Cryptomator to encrypt and decrypt each time you need access?
3) Are there any sync problem issues? maybe I re-edit a file before it got to be encrypted and sent to the cloud causing some sort of error?
4) Does it stress the CPU in any way?
Cryptomator is essentially an encrypted vault - you mount it to access files.
The big difference between Cryptomator and some other similar software (e.g. VeraCrypt) is that it was designed from the ground up to be used with mobile devices. E.g. instead of keeping everything in one huge file, it breaks up the data into small encrypted chunks. This way it will only sync what changed, not relying on the cloud provider to have incremental synchronization feature.
On the desktop, you mount it as a localhost and it’s accessible as long as you keep it mounted.
On iOS, it’s accessible as a location in Files. You need to unlock it when you access it.
All files are encrypted locally and synced to the cloud. Encryption happens automatically the moment you save the file. It’s transparent and you can re-edit and re-save the file all you want.
All the cloud provider sees is the encrypted files. I keep my Cryptomator vault in OneDrive but it will work with other cloud services.
Because it’s basically a bunch of files in a OneDrive folder, you always have them both locally and in the cloud on your laptop. On mobile, you can also have them always kept locally if you want (obviously at the expense of available space). It’s controlled via your cloud provider’s Offline files settings.
I have never had any sync or data loss issues. No excessive CPU or memory usage. As a matter of fact Cryptomator has been one of the most stable and reliable apps I’ve used on all platforms. And I’ve been using it for over a decade, since it was in beta. On Android, iOS, Windows, Linux and MacOS. Often on all these platforms at the same time, syncing between multiple devices.
