Chapter 3—Accounts
iTriumph integrates your calendar, contacts, and journal in a single application to provide you with clarity for
your life. iTriumph is capable of accessing and storing information in local accounts (stored on your computer)
and cloud-based accounts like iCloud where your information is stored elsewhere (a server on the internet). The
purpose of this chapter is to show you where your information is stored.
Personal Account
A personal account containing your information (journals, contacts, and calendars) is automatically created the
first time you launch the software. This account is stored locally on your computer and the information stored
in this account is never synchronized with any other applications or cloud-based services. It is thus an ideal
place to store information that you don’t want leaving your computer.
The personal account is stored in a database called “Personal.itriumphdb” at the following location on your
computer where ~ denotes your HOME folder:
~/Library/Application Support/Chronos/iTriumph Accounts/Personal.itriumphdb
There are several benefits to using an integrated account where journals, contacts, and calendars are all stored
in the same database:
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Seamless Linking
. Information can seamlessly be linked to each other without complications.
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Persistent Relationships
. Since all your information is stored in the same database, relationships between
items cannot be broken accidentally or easily. When items are in separate databases, you must be careful to
always keep the separate databases together since their contents are tightly related.
✦
Portability
. Moving a database from one computer to another is easy since journals, contacts, calendars
and their relationships are all stored in a single database file.
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Simple Backups
. Backing up all your important information is easier because you only have one database
to manage.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Under no circumstances should your personal database be moved, renamed, double-
clicked, or otherwise altered. The software includes a convenient backup feature to help you easily maintain
frequent backups of the database.
Local Accounts
You’re not limited to using just your Personal account. In fact, you can create and use as many local accounts as
you’d like. Each local account is stored in a separate database. The journal, contact, and calendar data in an ac-
count is completely independent from data in other accounts which is really nice if you want to further sepa-
rate or categorize your data beyond what’s possible within a single database.
To create a new local account:
1) Choose iTriumph > Preferences > Accounts. The Accounts preference pane shows you all of the accounts
that the software will automatically open when launched.
2) Click Add (+). A new account sheet will appear.
3) Choose Local Database as the Account Type.
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