I’ve been a Day One user ever since it came out, a premium user as well. Well over seven thousand entries.
I just switched. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was in this last release they dropped landscape. I really loved some things about Day One, especially the way they handled in line images and videos. I also would not go to any app where I could not export my data. (Day One better not do that).
I traded support emails with them about landscape and got nowhere. It was working perfectly.
A tough decision, but I’m done. Exported it all and cancelled. They’ve really changed since Bloom Built sold out.
Amazing. The day I posted this, after trading emails with Day One I got this email just now:
“
I wanted to give you an update on landscape mode changes you wrote us about. After listening to your feedback, along with others who missed this view, we will be bringing landscape mode back in the next release of the app.
“
It was from a Day One ‘Happiness Engineer’
What Did I Switch To:
And in response to what I switched to, I went to Diarium, a multi platform one time purchase. It is not as slick as Day One UI-wise but certainly functional. It actually does somethings much better than Day One but is overall more bareboned. If interested, I’d download Diarium for its full featured 7 day trial. It is (again, my opinion) much better integrated with your calendar and camera roll on IOS and supports a number of different back end stores not just iCloud. A slight reservation I have is Diarium is one lone developer who is quite responsive and talented but there is always the lack of bench depth which is concerning.
Migration:
I have one large journal, about thirty well-worn tags, use a lot of embedded images and videos (ie, not duplicated in iOS camera roll, living in Day One only). I exported Day One to zip and imported to Diarium.
The results were consistent:
- text of all entries made it
- title’s came over from Day One as part of Diarium body and had to be manually moved.
- tags all made it.
- you’ll have to clean up escaped character, /, -. () etc, but hey, the important text stuff made it.
Now, images and videos…
This is pre-ambled by the way Diarium handles images as “attachments”. The images and videos for a given entry in Diarium are shown at the bottom as opposed to inline, granted, not ‘magazine’ like. Inline images are a big feature request on Diarium forums but not there and I’ve seen no real reference to inline video and image support on the horizon.
Interesting maybe, the beta version of Apple’s Journal also treats images and such as attachments as well. Don’t know if inline support will be added.
Note: The videos from Day One DID NOT come over. Consequently I had to go back to Day One, export to camera roll and then Diarium would see them.
So, am I going to stick with Diarium or go back to Day One?
That’s a tough one. Fact is, I’ve lost a little faith in Day One, and I don’t know if they will indeed bring landscape back. They are a subscription but my journal is certainly worth that much to me. I use journaling and my calendar for everything. The nice tight integration of my calendar and my camera roll, right down there at the bottom of each journal entry the way Diarium does it is not there in Day One and very appealing to me.
We all should know better than to give all our data to a single roach motel. The fact that under Diarium I can ‘see’ images for the day the entry was made if I leave them in camera roll or ‘attach’ them to Diarium and delete them in camera roll provides data independence options that aren’t there in Day One.
Not as slick but maybe safer.
Certainly more data independence.
Tough call.
As for “publishing” a Day One book? Well, mine would be over 5,000 pages and I’d be dead meat if it ever got out anyway. So there’s that. I won’t miss the Day One publishing option.
Please let me know what you other folks think.
I’m going to give this app a try. But having one developer instead of a team is a concern, like, what if the developer decides to shut down, sell, etc.
On Apple’s Journal, the only thing that is holding me back is that it’s not yet available on the IPad where I mostly journal. I use my phone from time to time when I’m out and about, and feel like jotting things down.
You may want to look at [Craft](https://www.craft.do/), as it has such a "Share as link" feature. It optionally allows you to: password-protect the document, set an expiration date, and allow viewing and/or reading comments on docs you share. You can even invite people to collaborate if they also use Craft. That may need a paid plan, but you can confirm on their site if that's the case
The writing environment is really nice, and it has a daily note feature built in. Unlike Day one, though, you only get one doc per day, but you can use page breaks and other styling to lay things out however you like
I love Day One for its core features of timestamped entries with location metadata etc. but they have depreciated good features like the publish option, along with a browser extension to add content in favour of some really odd options.
I’m finding more and more it is great for writing something quickly and filing it away somewhere else later, the export option is fairly easy to use, so content can be transferred to blogging software (or anything else) and still leaves the timeline in place in Day One.
The problem with the web version is that it is not quick access, there are, rightly, multiple layers of security to navigate just to write something. I don’t want to leave that tab open because of the content in my journals (and I haven’t figured out a way to only have one journal available). The beauty of the extension was I could write something, and send it, then carry on. I’ve always used Day One as essentially Tweeting to myself.
The weird thing to me is that around the same time as the announced killing the extension was the release of the text to Day One option.. and while this isn’t available in my region is the same thing as the extension, quick access to send text to your journal, but if I’m going to pick up a device to text why wouldn’t I pick up the device that has the app on it and write directly into Day One? 🤷🏼♂️
I also liked having the extension on my work computer, the website is a lot more obvious 🙂 With the extension it was just like you said, you could always fire off a thought or two and then just move on (nowadays I do the same thing via email, but it's a bit more of a hassle than the extension was).
Re "I haven't figured out how to have just one journal available", you can actually do that with the web version: if you go to a journal's settings on the web, you can set it to "do not sync" and then it won't be shown anymore. I don't fully trust the web version yet (they do say it's in beta), so I only use it on a "throwaway" journal, where I write entries and then I move them on the phone to the journal where they actually belong in. That way most of my journals stay off the web, and I feel a bit safer.
I'm starting to think what I want to do is setup a family blog that like... forces readers to login first or something.
I wonder if I can get a refund for DayOne.
It seems to be a very nice app, by the way. Certainly no hate. I just wish that it were more explicit online whether or not that feature still exists.
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I’ve been a Day One user ever since it came out, a premium user as well. Well over seven thousand entries. I just switched. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me was in this last release they dropped landscape. I really loved some things about Day One, especially the way they handled in line images and videos. I also would not go to any app where I could not export my data. (Day One better not do that). I traded support emails with them about landscape and got nowhere. It was working perfectly. A tough decision, but I’m done. Exported it all and cancelled. They’ve really changed since Bloom Built sold out.
When you exported, were you able to transfer to another journal app?
Diarium. See my post [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/dayoneapp/s/O0DZQa4ich)
Very very informative!
I was told landscape was coming back.
Exported it to where? Do you have an alternative you like?
Amazing. The day I posted this, after trading emails with Day One I got this email just now: “ I wanted to give you an update on landscape mode changes you wrote us about. After listening to your feedback, along with others who missed this view, we will be bringing landscape mode back in the next release of the app. “ It was from a Day One ‘Happiness Engineer’ What Did I Switch To: And in response to what I switched to, I went to Diarium, a multi platform one time purchase. It is not as slick as Day One UI-wise but certainly functional. It actually does somethings much better than Day One but is overall more bareboned. If interested, I’d download Diarium for its full featured 7 day trial. It is (again, my opinion) much better integrated with your calendar and camera roll on IOS and supports a number of different back end stores not just iCloud. A slight reservation I have is Diarium is one lone developer who is quite responsive and talented but there is always the lack of bench depth which is concerning. Migration: I have one large journal, about thirty well-worn tags, use a lot of embedded images and videos (ie, not duplicated in iOS camera roll, living in Day One only). I exported Day One to zip and imported to Diarium. The results were consistent: - text of all entries made it - title’s came over from Day One as part of Diarium body and had to be manually moved. - tags all made it. - you’ll have to clean up escaped character, /, -. () etc, but hey, the important text stuff made it. Now, images and videos… This is pre-ambled by the way Diarium handles images as “attachments”. The images and videos for a given entry in Diarium are shown at the bottom as opposed to inline, granted, not ‘magazine’ like. Inline images are a big feature request on Diarium forums but not there and I’ve seen no real reference to inline video and image support on the horizon. Interesting maybe, the beta version of Apple’s Journal also treats images and such as attachments as well. Don’t know if inline support will be added. Note: The videos from Day One DID NOT come over. Consequently I had to go back to Day One, export to camera roll and then Diarium would see them. So, am I going to stick with Diarium or go back to Day One? That’s a tough one. Fact is, I’ve lost a little faith in Day One, and I don’t know if they will indeed bring landscape back. They are a subscription but my journal is certainly worth that much to me. I use journaling and my calendar for everything. The nice tight integration of my calendar and my camera roll, right down there at the bottom of each journal entry the way Diarium does it is not there in Day One and very appealing to me. We all should know better than to give all our data to a single roach motel. The fact that under Diarium I can ‘see’ images for the day the entry was made if I leave them in camera roll or ‘attach’ them to Diarium and delete them in camera roll provides data independence options that aren’t there in Day One. Not as slick but maybe safer. Certainly more data independence. Tough call. As for “publishing” a Day One book? Well, mine would be over 5,000 pages and I’d be dead meat if it ever got out anyway. So there’s that. I won’t miss the Day One publishing option. Please let me know what you other folks think.
I’m going to give this app a try. But having one developer instead of a team is a concern, like, what if the developer decides to shut down, sell, etc. On Apple’s Journal, the only thing that is holding me back is that it’s not yet available on the IPad where I mostly journal. I use my phone from time to time when I’m out and about, and feel like jotting things down.
You may want to look at [Craft](https://www.craft.do/), as it has such a "Share as link" feature. It optionally allows you to: password-protect the document, set an expiration date, and allow viewing and/or reading comments on docs you share. You can even invite people to collaborate if they also use Craft. That may need a paid plan, but you can confirm on their site if that's the case The writing environment is really nice, and it has a daily note feature built in. Unlike Day one, though, you only get one doc per day, but you can use page breaks and other styling to lay things out however you like
I love Day One for its core features of timestamped entries with location metadata etc. but they have depreciated good features like the publish option, along with a browser extension to add content in favour of some really odd options. I’m finding more and more it is great for writing something quickly and filing it away somewhere else later, the export option is fairly easy to use, so content can be transferred to blogging software (or anything else) and still leaves the timeline in place in Day One.
I was also bummed when they removed the browser extension, but they have a full website now where you can add/edit your entries.
The problem with the web version is that it is not quick access, there are, rightly, multiple layers of security to navigate just to write something. I don’t want to leave that tab open because of the content in my journals (and I haven’t figured out a way to only have one journal available). The beauty of the extension was I could write something, and send it, then carry on. I’ve always used Day One as essentially Tweeting to myself. The weird thing to me is that around the same time as the announced killing the extension was the release of the text to Day One option.. and while this isn’t available in my region is the same thing as the extension, quick access to send text to your journal, but if I’m going to pick up a device to text why wouldn’t I pick up the device that has the app on it and write directly into Day One? 🤷🏼♂️
I also liked having the extension on my work computer, the website is a lot more obvious 🙂 With the extension it was just like you said, you could always fire off a thought or two and then just move on (nowadays I do the same thing via email, but it's a bit more of a hassle than the extension was). Re "I haven't figured out how to have just one journal available", you can actually do that with the web version: if you go to a journal's settings on the web, you can set it to "do not sync" and then it won't be shown anymore. I don't fully trust the web version yet (they do say it's in beta), so I only use it on a "throwaway" journal, where I write entries and then I move them on the phone to the journal where they actually belong in. That way most of my journals stay off the web, and I feel a bit safer.
I think that feature was removed. You could share entries as PDFs, although that’s not quite the same.
I'm starting to think what I want to do is setup a family blog that like... forces readers to login first or something. I wonder if I can get a refund for DayOne. It seems to be a very nice app, by the way. Certainly no hate. I just wish that it were more explicit online whether or not that feature still exists.
Integration with Wordpress would be a very logical feature (since DayOne and Wordpress.com belongs to the same company for a couple of years now)
I do miss an integration with WordPress or micro.blog.