Day One 2 5 6 – Maintain A Daily Journal

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Day One for iOS and Mac (affiliate links) is one of my favorite apps, even though I may not use it every single day. With 2.0’s introduction of support for multiple journals, though, I’ve found a number of new uses for it beyond personal journaling and reflection.

Note: If you need help with the core questions of why and how to journal for yourself, Day One has a pretty good series on its blog.

Day One 5.4 - Maintain a daily journal. Download the latest versions of the best Mac apps at safe and trusted MacUpdate. 2) Convert your journal to a book. Day One Apps book printing is a perennial favorite among writers and publishers. This feature allows you to convert your journal into a book in a matter of seconds. Here is an example of how the book will look like. Day One 2 adds the ability to keep up to ten separate, color-coded journals at once; for example one to serve as your personal diary, another for business notes, and a third to jot down ideas for. Day One 2.1.6 – Maintain a daily journal. February 14, 2017. 2) Convert your journal to a book. Day One Apps book printing is a perennial favorite among writers and publishers. This feature allows you to convert your journal into a book in a matter of seconds. Here is an example of how the book will look like.

As for what to do with the new multiple journal support, I’ll share a couple of my own cases and a few ideas below that you can use as inspiration. While other apps may cover some or all of these tasks for you, mixing these with Day One’s other features—attaching locations to entries, automation with IF, multiple photos per entry, plotting entry dates on a scrolling calendar, and more—make it a compelling option for saving and looking back on all sorts of things:

  • Social journal – Create a new journal specifically for saving certain kinds of activity on across all your social media accounts (mine is simply called “Social”). With Day One’s new, dedicated channel on IF, you can automatically save things like favorited tweets, Facebook photos you’re tagged in, liked videos on YouTube, Instagram photos, you like, and much more. You can also use Day One’s powerful app extension to cover that last mile of stuff you don’t want to automate. This is one of my favorite uses of Day One’s journals, especially after my previous tool for this, Favs, seems to be abandoned.
  • Work journal – Some people don’t like to mix work and personal lives, so this is a good way to separate your journaling and reflection for work purposes.
  • #Winning journal – If you’re like me, and sometimes you have a hard time remembering how far you’ve come in terms of personal or professional growth, a journal for cataloging milestones and other wins could go a long way. This could be instead of, or in addition to, a Work journal, but the idea is to set rules or goals for what to catalog here. Things like finishing a big project, receiving a compliment, getting a new client, and overcoming a personal fear or challenge are all good ideas.
  • Photo a day – Maybe you want to build and explore your photography habit, or maybe you just need a place to keep your self portrait progression shots somewhere besides your Photos app. A dedicated Day One journal could be great for this, especially if you travel and want to record the location of your shots.
  • Quote journal – I like saving quotes, and for a couple years now I’ve used the excellent Quotebook from Lickability. But recently I realized I sometimes post quotes to services like Tumblr, and I wanted an easy way to collect those too. I created a new Day One journal, hooked up a couple recipes in IF (such as “if I post a quote to Tumblr, add it to X journal in Day One”). I like that I can pull in these quotes from other places, in addition to manually adding them, and they’ll sync to all my devices, including my Mac.

Additions:

  • Booze journal – Another place where attaching places and locations, as well as tags, can be real handy for cataloging the beer, wine, and spirits you try and enjoy. Thanks Jay Ray.

That’s all I have for now. If you have some Day One journal that might be good fits here, let me know on Facebook and Twitter.

“This superb journaling app remainspleasant to behold, easy to use, and a tough act for any rival to follow.”

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-Macworld

Day One is an award-winning journaling and note-taking app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This app allows you to easily add date-wise entries along with attachments like images or any other file format. Just like a physical journal, you can write about what you plan to do later in the day, things that bother you, or jot down some notes related to your work.

Theuser interface is simple and hassle-free. In fact, it is one of the tidiestjournaling apps I have ever used. One of the reasons to download this app todayis, they have a free version which provides almost 70 percent of the featuresof the premium version. So, feel free to install it on your iPhone, iPad orMac. You have nothing to lose.

Introduce producer

Paul Mayne is the designer and founder of an organization called Bloom. The Day One app was developed by the hard-working and talented team of this company. In an interview with LifeHacker, Paul described how and why he decided to work on this idea.

Paulhimself had struggled to keep a personal journal and wished there was asoftware that would make his life several times easier. So, he began working ona basic version of this app for Mac computers. And since, he and his team ofsoftware developers have made plenty of enhancements to make it one of the bestin the category.

“Day One makes keeping a journaldelightfully easy.”

-Wired

Here I have listed 3 features ofDay One that make it extraordinary.

1) Reminders and Notifications

Remindershelp you be consistent with your journaling habit. Reminders are for you if youconstantly find yourself forgetting or making excuses to write. On setting up areminder, its date and time, the Day One app will send you a notification toyour iOS/ macOS device.

Here is how you can set areminder in iOS. You can customize it however you want.

Youcan add a message that will display when the reminder appears on your screen.It also allows you to set the time and frequency at which you want thenotifications. When you receive the notification, all you have to do is tap onit and add the entry for that particular time of the day.

To create Reminders, go to Day One > Settings > Notifications & Reminders > Add Reminder.

Here is how you can set a reminder in macOS. To set remindersin macOS, the same procedure applies as that of iOS.

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Click Day One > Preferences (in the file menu) > Reminders. Click to enable reminders and then click the + icon to create a new reminder.

2) Convert your journal to a book

DayOne Apps book printing is a perennial favorite among writers and publishers.This feature allows you to convert your journal into a book in a matter ofseconds.

Here is an example of how the bookwill look like.

Youcan preview the entire book to see if the content, book cover and page layoutis to your liking. Once everything is perfect, you will have to add it to thecart and checkout.

Thisfeature is available in iOS and macOS devices. But, as of now, it is notavailable for Day One Android. They are working hard on bringing it to Androiddevices as well.

3) Powerful rich text formattingwith Markdown

Day One App supports Rich Text Format. For content writer not well versed with HTML and other languages, writing code can be a very difficult and time-consuming process. To solve this problem, John Gruber of Daring Fireball has created a free tool called Markdown.

Markdownis a markup language that converts a plain text to HTML. All you have to do islearn a few tags used in this and you are ready to create web pages without anyknowledge of programming languages.

DayOne App has Markdown already integrated into it. This app allows you to writeplain text which will get processed into the desired format.

This is how the document lookslike when written in Rich Text Format.

After processing, it gets converted to a standard web page.The following is a virtual compiler window to help you design your page better.

What I like

Thereare plenty of things I love about this app. I have installed it on my iPad,iPhone, and my Mac computer. The app has a lock screen, so in my absence, Idon’t have to worry about secrecy or someone peeking into my journals.Moreover, the user interface is amazingly designed. All the entries I have madeuntil now are available to me in a single click.

What I don’t like

Thisapp has some sublime features but there are a couple of key elements missing.It would have been remarkable to have these features in this app.

Onedrawback of the free version is that you can only add one image per entry.However, the paid version allows you to do so.

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Anoption to maximize and minimize the screen is another thing the designers ofthis app have not considered. I can’t hide the sidebar when I want to focussolely on writing. I hope the makers of the Day One App fix these trivial issues.

My recommendation

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“If you’re looking for a fantasticjournaling app or a great app for logging and recording various events andmilestones of your life, then by far and away the best pick is Day One.”

-The Sweet Setup

Idefinitely recommend using Day One for your journaling and note-taking needs.They also have a free version. So, you can try it out for a few days and see ifit suits your requirements.

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For me, features like book printing and markdown seem surplus right now. But, who knows, I might decide to print out the whole thing in a book format to pass the information on to my future generations. It’s a small investment that will deliver tremendous benefits.

Pricing

TheDay One App has both, a free and premium version. If you are really seriousabout journaling, then there is a free 7 day trial for the premium version. Theprice is $2.92 per month. You’re paying for quality. If you choose to go withthe premium version then you will be billed annually.

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