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["John R. Marks, IV" <jrm4@xxxxxxxx>]

I know I saw interest in the idea of encrypted notebooks (as well as 
perhaps nested notebooks) so I figure I'd share a thing I'm trying that 
appears to work really well.

Let's say what you'd like is a *partly* encrypted notebook. This can 
work, if you're willing to have the UNencrypted part be a subfolder. You 
can probably see where I'm going with it, but here goes (I think this is 
Linux only, symlinks involved).

Let's say you have an unencrypted notebook in some main area. What you 
can do is mount an encrypted volume, create a new zim instance in there, 
and then add your old unencrypted zim folder as a symlinked subfolder. 
New encrypted zim makes its own index, but there should probably be no 
problems if only one is open at once, no? The neat part is you can let 
the multiple indexes deal with, e.g. some encrypted and unencrypted 
tasks/tags etc. Some won't show up in the "only unencrypted" zim -- but 
that's exactly the point.

(Use case might be something like, you have  stuff in a laptop "Work" 
zim notebook that you want to be able to pass around in the office 
during the day.  At home, however, you instead open up your private zim 
notebook (which has work as a sub) and then you can have access to, 
say...uh.. maybe things that are considered to be unsafe in a work 
environment. Like bank passwords. Sure, thats it.)

Make sense? See any problems? I'm both sharing in the hopes that others 
find the idea handy, but also perhaps to see if I've missed why this 
might not work? So far so good, though.

John