Commentary: I don't use Journal every night, but even opening the app and looking back helps put time into perspective.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Been using Day One since February 2013. In the beginning there was a single Journal where you could put a single Picture and start writing in Markdown. They changed their economic strategy to subscription, added multiple journal, multiple pictures... videos, audio etc. removed markdown features I was using a lot (like footnotes) and the ability to see the markup for easy editing. They're basically EverNote now. They completely lost their original idea and what made Day One such a great journalling app. I wish I could easily switch to another one. I did it once with a more agnostic markdown note-taking app (iA Writer) but ultimately came back to Day One. I even developed one of my own as a PWA...

Day One is a totally different thing now. We don't need another full-featured note-taking app. We need something different and simpler.

SN: I'm also a GTD enthusiast who spent tons of money in apps like OmniFocus or Things or Agenda. I ditched everything to rely only on Reminders and Notes and have never been more efficient.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Hm. I haven’t used Journal app myself yet so not sure how good it is though, I remember DayOne being so amazing except for its subscription based business model, as you mentioned. Actually, I’ve been using Obsidian as my journaling tool instead since I lost all my data on DayOne, but I kinda feel bad for DayOne developers because Apple bought DarkSky for their weather app, why don’t they do the same to DayOne?

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