I want to use this but I hope they add a macOS and iPad os app. Would also be nice to have a watch os app to do quick little dictation or voice memo entries.
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Hands-On With the New Journal App in the iOS 17.2 Beta
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It is an interesting comment which turns up every now and then in the Day One forum. It seems that some people who journal enter their innermost thoughts and feelings. The thing they like about data entry rather than paper journals is that the journal can die with them. Others want it to be a family thing, with partners having joint ownership, which isn’t currently a thing in DayOne, though that may change.
Day One has as many journals as you want, so different rules could then apply. Family / personal / medical /etc.
No import facility or Mac/iPad support though makes it a dead duck.
I see. No iPad and Mac support is kinda a big deal.
This just isn’t something that should be part of iOS.
And agree with others, without fully baked support for web and also iPad, Mac support this is DOA. And this seems to be happening more at Apple, see Apple Music Classical, and is just very sloppy. We keep hearing from Apple how easy it is to scale an app from iOS to its other platform and yet they don’t even do it?
Any new (or existing) service Apple offer needs to meet a minimum threshold, that being:
And agree with others, without fully baked support for web and also iPad, Mac support this is DOA. And this seems to be happening more at Apple, see Apple Music Classical, and is just very sloppy. We keep hearing from Apple how easy it is to scale an app from iOS to its other platform and yet they don’t even do it?
Any new (or existing) service Apple offer needs to meet a minimum threshold, that being:
- iOS/iPad app
- Mac app (via Mac Catalyst)
- Web app
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Apps that try to understand your life any your mood are a little creepy. It feels like somebody is always looking over your shoulder. Imagine a murderer uses the journal app and the app asks him "Do you need any suggestions where to hide the dead body?".
I thought it would ask you how you doing based on what you have been doing (maybe even learning from your calendar or routines) and you'd just answer by pressing one of the choices (great, good, ok, depressed) etc and based on that it would calculate your "Mental health" occasionally but you have to actually bother to write things down? No thanks. Who has time for that. Just the thought of it actually MAKES me depressed. Deleted
You'd think at some point they would have it accessible via Mac or iPad. If nothing else so one can actually use a real keyboard to input entries to it.
And of course have it sync with all those devices. Otherwise like so many others have said, most people probably won't bother with it.
And of course have it sync with all those devices. Otherwise like so many others have said, most people probably won't bother with it.
This is iOS 17.2 Beta, which came out this morning. Have we been told it isn’t porting to iPad/Mac?
I thought the app would go through all my text messages, photos, recent events, memories since Apple has access to all my information unlike third-party apps and compile a narrative description of my life.
Example I have kept every single text from day one from my GF, which includes photos, audio messages, text and emoji's, it would be nice to have the ability to create a journal just for one particular person and break it down by events and memories and activities and locations.
Would be nice to create a physical print journal book that I could print out after refining and cleaning up of my life with one particular person and what significant waypoints we've experienced and present that as a gift or even share between two people.
I don't like the idea of storing a journal completely electronically long-term because we know these devices can fail but a physical journal book will last for many years and would just print out new journal entry pages and insert them in the back of the book as it grows.
Example I have kept every single text from day one from my GF, which includes photos, audio messages, text and emoji's, it would be nice to have the ability to create a journal just for one particular person and break it down by events and memories and activities and locations.
Would be nice to create a physical print journal book that I could print out after refining and cleaning up of my life with one particular person and what significant waypoints we've experienced and present that as a gift or even share between two people.
I don't like the idea of storing a journal completely electronically long-term because we know these devices can fail but a physical journal book will last for many years and would just print out new journal entry pages and insert them in the back of the book as it grows.
Yeah hopefully they don't come out with a version requires macOS Sonoma and newer or M3 hardware are newer but allows older hardware to use the journaling app as well that's still sync with our current iPhone.
I think is app is the thing I've been most excited about in a long time with my iPhone. I'm not a journaling person, but I understand and see the importance and value it can be, and an app like this for a creative like myself... I would do it probably everyday.
I was rather looking forward to replacing my makeshift “journal” in the Calendar app, but I do almost everything on my iPad. Now I don’t see any reason to even open the journal app when I install 17.2
I don't think Day One has anything to be worried about yet. This initial release is very primitive to say the least. It appears to currently be limited to iPhone IOS (assuming it will eventually make it to iPad OS and maybe eventually Mac OS).
The data entry seems to be stored locally (at least the iCloud syncing function isn't functioning yet) since Ive tried it on 2 iPhones and there is not iCloud syncing of content that I can find. However, under "Apps using iCloud" there is a toggle setting for Journal which is turned on but I guess it is not yet active. Logging into iCloud shows not indication of the Journal App entries being synced but it might be in process because when you turn it off you get a warning about "What would you like to do with the previously synced iCloud Journal on your iPhone ?". The info must be there somewhere in iCloud. I wonder if @Dan Barbera noticed this at all?
I can see this as being useful for recording some trip/vacation stuff on the go and also for those who only want to do some light/occasional journaling at a high level. Those who are serious about journaling should (at least for now) stay with whatever process you currently use.
IMHO, to be of any real use on a regular basis the app needs to be accessible by and sync data across all Apple devices including Mac OS.
Except Apples current journal app is a basic b* version of that Day One offers.
However, in a few years it might have half the features of Day One and One Day put it out of business for iPhone users.
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