Vault 3 stores your notes and photographs as an outline. Vault 3 organizes your information into categories and sub-categories that you specify. Vault 3's outline is easily and rapidly searchable. Vault 3 uses strong encryption to ensure the privacy of your personal data. Vault 3 can even run slideshows of your photographs. Vault 3 runs on 64-bit Windows (Intel/AMD & ARM) and 64-bit Linux (Intel/AMD & ARM).
Vault 3 © Copyright 2026, Eric Bergman-Terrell
A version of Vault 3 for Android is also available. All versions of Vault 3 (Android, Windows, and Linux) use
the same file format. Any .vl3 file can be read and updated by any version.
Vault 3 relies on many of the same libraries used by the Eclipse project.
- Make sure you have a Java Development Kit (JDK) with a version of 17 or later. I am using version 24 at the moment. You can download a JDK
here. You can download a JDK for Windows on ARMhere. - Clone the
Vault3.CommonCoderepo. - Install Vault3.CommonCode into your local Maven repository (mvn install)
- Clone this repo.
- Run. Use a command like:
mvn clean compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=mainPackage.MainApplicationWindow.
If you intend to distribute Vault 3 to other users, use the scripts in the "Vault/ant build scripts" folder. These scripts will create the folders that you can distribute.
Password-protected Vault 3 documents are encrypted with the AES (Rijndael) algorithm in CBC mode, using 256-bit keys.
Please submit your feedback to Vault3@EricBT.com.