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.
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?
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.
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?