For example, when you add a photo to a journal entry, Day One asks if you want to change the time and location of the entry to the time and location of the photo. Aside from its presence on multiple platforms, Day One stands out as a meticulously crafted application. Day One creates an environment where no matter where you are, it only takes a second to record something. Day One for me has created journal nirvana, in the same way that Things created multi-platform to do syncing and iA Writer perfected multi-platform text editing. This is in large part due to the fact that most of these apps lack desktop counterparts I can use while I'm at work all day.Īfter spending a month and a half with Day One, I think I've finally found my solution - a way to record anything and have access to it all from any device I'm using. I was skeptical of Mayne's app because none of the other apps I've tried (even "smart journals" like Path) have successfully kept me reeled in. The stray thoughts and snippets I wrote about earlier are frequently not about you, but about the things in your life. Journaling feels self-serving and egocentric, since your entries are about you. I'd of course tried several similar apps before like Momento for iPhone, and even good ol' TextEdit on Mac, but always felt like I was trying too hard to find things to write down. What matters most is the act of saving and not letting the tiny private things in life evaporate.īloom founder Paul Mayne asked if I'd want to try a new version of his journaling app called Day One (which launched yesterday). I hadn't been "journaling" in the conventional sense (recording thoughts at the end of each day), but recording memories I would otherwise forget: a gold mine of inside jokes, transitory moments, and ideas to build on. No longer was I writing in an old Belle & Sebastian notebook, filling it with stray thoughts, ticket stubs, funny jokes somebody told, and quotes I liked. And of course, writing takes longer than typing and your hands ends up sore. The biggest difference here is that people use these services to share things with others, and that you can access them from just about anywhere. These services have made logging your life on a small scale super simple, and journaling apps haven't kept up. Increasingly people are taking their thoughts to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. While Moleskines will likely never fade in popularity, I've learned that the act of journaling is shifting. "You should journal." The word journal has taken on a new meaning - as a verb, and as a bragging right for those sitting outside coffee shops brave enough to stay off their iPhones.
A hundred times I've attempted to "start journaling," but I always gave it up after a few weeks.
The hardest part about journaling is remembering to journal.
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