michelepixels
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According to one of my earliest journal entries in my Day One journal app, in December 2015, I heard about it from someone(s) here at TLP. So, now that I'm so in Love with the app 
I wanted to post about it here to say thank you. Even though I don't remember who mentioned it back then. Thank you, whoever you were! 
I have always thought it was a cool app, but I've been slow getting into using it regularly.
The features that attracted me most in the beginning:
Most recently, the exciting developments are that they are producing podcasts and they've created a Facebook Day One Community. The podcasts are interesting and informative, telling us about new developments coming up, what's going on behind the scenes, and how other users use Day One. I've gotten a few ideas for my own journaling! And the Facebook community is off to a great start with people talking about how they use the app, asking questions, and getting help.
Once of my most recent reasons I'm loving Day One is that I realized (while listening to the latest Day One podcast this morning) that I could input all my childhood diaries, thereby backing them up in a third location and making them somewhat searchable (helpful for future scrapbook pages!). I had a head start on doing this because 6 years ago I photographed all those old diaries (I started keeping a diary at the age of 8 in 1980 and accumulated about 40 books, mostly spiral notebooks by adulthood) so I have had them backed up digitally for years on Backblaze and Smugmug. So I spent a lot of today dragging the photos of my very first diary into Day One, changing the date and location, and tagging them. I even transcribed them because I rarely wrote more than a couple of sentences back then. Here's a screenshot of one of them. This is the desktop Day One app.
If you've ever wanted to record anything (ha ha! That's EVERYONE at TLP isn't it?) I highly recommend Day One.
If you are using Day One already, I'd be interested in hearing about how you use it. And about how you chose whether to use multiple journals or just tags or both? Until recently, I wasn't bothering with tags and, though I've made several journals, the only ones I consistently use have been the default journal and one I made for tracking my periods. Just like with photo metadata in Lightroom, I figure the journaling (or writing captions in LR) is sufficient for searching. But lately I've been learning some new ideas for using Day One and considering how I might be better organized about it.
I wanted to post about it here to say thank you. Even though I don't remember who mentioned it back then. Thank you, whoever you were! I have always thought it was a cool app, but I've been slow getting into using it regularly.
The features that attracted me most in the beginning:
- automatic recording of lots of metadata including date, time, location, weather, and number of steps
- ease of adding photos to entries
- search ability
- being able to use it on my phone anywhere
- low cost
- being able to export text/pdf, so I could make printed books (I made one with Blurb for 2016)
Most recently, the exciting developments are that they are producing podcasts and they've created a Facebook Day One Community. The podcasts are interesting and informative, telling us about new developments coming up, what's going on behind the scenes, and how other users use Day One. I've gotten a few ideas for my own journaling! And the Facebook community is off to a great start with people talking about how they use the app, asking questions, and getting help.
Once of my most recent reasons I'm loving Day One is that I realized (while listening to the latest Day One podcast this morning) that I could input all my childhood diaries, thereby backing them up in a third location and making them somewhat searchable (helpful for future scrapbook pages!). I had a head start on doing this because 6 years ago I photographed all those old diaries (I started keeping a diary at the age of 8 in 1980 and accumulated about 40 books, mostly spiral notebooks by adulthood) so I have had them backed up digitally for years on Backblaze and Smugmug. So I spent a lot of today dragging the photos of my very first diary into Day One, changing the date and location, and tagging them. I even transcribed them because I rarely wrote more than a couple of sentences back then. Here's a screenshot of one of them. This is the desktop Day One app.
If you've ever wanted to record anything (ha ha! That's EVERYONE at TLP isn't it?) I highly recommend Day One.
If you are using Day One already, I'd be interested in hearing about how you use it. And about how you chose whether to use multiple journals or just tags or both? Until recently, I wasn't bothering with tags and, though I've made several journals, the only ones I consistently use have been the default journal and one I made for tracking my periods. Just like with photo metadata in Lightroom, I figure the journaling (or writing captions in LR) is sufficient for searching. But lately I've been learning some new ideas for using Day One and considering how I might be better organized about it.
