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Journaling Platform 'Day One' Transitions to a Subscription Service
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One Note for everything except having books made. Your welcome.
Knew this was coming from the moment they got rid of the options of independent storage.
I won't be paying a subscription, I mean this is a journal of your life, are you going to pay $50 a year for the rest of your life?! I'd rather they released a new x.0 version with a major new feature each year and charge for that.
Not sure what I'll switch to, I journal on the iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Surface Pro so will prefer to take something that is fully cross platform.
I won't be paying a subscription, I mean this is a journal of your life, are you going to pay $50 a year for the rest of your life?! I'd rather they released a new x.0 version with a major new feature each year and charge for that.
Not sure what I'll switch to, I journal on the iPhone, iPad, OSX, and Surface Pro so will prefer to take something that is fully cross platform.
Thank you. I thought the Apple Notes app allowed images now....no?
or are you saying you can only add photos the first time? then subsequent entries would need a new note for adding more photos
You are kidding right? You buy and install software. It isn't a service. If they want to charge to use their sync, okay, that's a service. But, that's not what they are doing.
My mistake. You can add photos to a note... I always tried dragging a photo on my mac and it never worked, until I realized that you can use Com-C and Com-V.
If you got it before 6/29/17, you don't have to pay a subscription. This is an option for old users (and 1/2 price) and for new people.
I want to get beer for each developer in CulturedCode, the OmniGroup, Pixelmator teams.
I do subscribe to a couple of services that I use everyday though, just not a journaling app and definitely not 50$.
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I do subscribe to YNAB because I didn't find an alternative, out of curiosity, what are you using now?
Just came to say POOH. But luckily I bought DayOne for Mac a few months ago so what I use it for is covered. I'm not someone who wants social media reminding me of life events so I use DayOne to discreetly send me "on this day" alerts. I use this app almost every day and I've invested hours upon hours inputting old entries from elsewhere into this hoping it's the one-stop-shop for me. I hope it doesn't die off! But jeeez.. $50 for journaling ... yikes. Even as a paid and frequent user I can't imagine saying yes to that.
Yeah, this is what bakes my noodle too.
It's a journal for goodness sake. You can do that in a basic text editor or word processor or Scrivener or WordPress blog etc
Anyone like how the same day Apple makes DayOne the free app of the week DayOne goes premium? Their reviews on the App store are being hammered by displeasure. Funny how just 4 days ago support told me publishing including wordpress was still just around the corner first thing this fall (after waiting 18 ***** months) and now the links I use to glance at and that support would make references to are gone.
This is ridiculous so next move after subscription is to charge us per usage.
Subscriptions should be limited to apps that offer content not productivity apps.
Subscriptions should be limited to apps that offer content not productivity apps.
I have a journaling system. It's called Tomo-e River paper and a Pilot Custom 823. These people are insane.
Yeah, I think we all have subscription fatigue at this point. I don't mind paying (or not) for major upgrades of a piece of software to keep it current with new features and compatibility or whatnot, but being bled for $5/month here, $10/month there... enough already.
Also, a "journaling app" can literally be replaced by -- oh, I don't know -- Notes or Pages or just emails to yourself.
Also, a "journaling app" can literally be replaced by -- oh, I don't know -- Notes or Pages or just emails to yourself.
Yup. Years ago, I was whining on the YNAB forums why subscription was bad and I think someone from YNAB team commented that it was after all worth a cup of coffee. I was infuriated at the response but with the number of apps going subscription only, it is getting tough to hold out. We have all been at places where we might have done the equivalent of smoking a 100$ bill....but that does not mean that an app can ask for monthly payments. An app should alone on its worth and not via a relative comparison to a cup of coffee!
So number of coffees I have to sacrifice every month now: 1 for YNAB, 1 for 1Password, 1 for Day One, 2 for Spotify, 3 for Office 365 = Grand total of 8. Not including Adobe cause I had bought the standalone Lightroom 5 sometime ago.
YNAB 4
honestly, found nothing equivalent to YNAB4...not even the new YNAB. I have my eye on Quicken but the mobile app put me off. It sure looks like I will eventually cave in. Almost every other app worth its salt is subscription based. If I have to go subscription, I might as well go YNAB. The subscription cartel is probably going to winI have DayOne "Classic" from three years ago, bought in 2014. It runs fine under Sierra, syncs for free with iCloud. Maybe it will break under some future MacOS, but probably not High Sierra. In any case, I'll have gotten my money's worth by then, for sure.
I don't actually remember how much I paid, maybe $10, $20?... but I'm reasonably sure it wasn't TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS, which is what I'd have spent over the course of 4 years on a $50/year subscription. Get the point?
And shoddy math like yours just enables this subscription garbage to perpetuate. As long as you, and people like you, are willing to spend "a cup of coffee a month" on a journalling app, developers are going to feel empowered to keep pulling this nonsense.
And we're not talking about "a free stuff" here, we're talking about not being willing to get reamed over time because we're not smart enough to do math.
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MS One Note is $70/year. Including the entire rest of MS Office and 1TB of cloud storage. Adobe Photoshop + Lightroom is $120/year.
$50/year for a notes App alone? That's hilarious.
$50/year for a notes App alone? That's hilarious.
You must not be a subscriber to YNAB...
Exactly! Not worth the cash they are asking though from their perspective, they are probably thinking... just a cup of coffee after all.
Not sure why most of the developers to today feel entitled to my cup of coffee. Leave my coffee alone...
My first computer (1994) had Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I used to keep a journal in the Cardfile program. Was great for it. I eventually got them all out into Microsoft Works. Then in a large PDF file of archived entries much later on. That was back when $400 got you 16 MB of RAM and $795 for an Epson scanner that wasn't even true color. The thing was as beast, must have weighed 30 pounds. But I digress.
Damn... I was hoping that wasn't the case. That sucks
You can export from the iOS to your mac, and then import it into the mac version.
There are limitations as it is only one journal at a time for basic users.
I am trying to work out how to get things into Ulysses, seems like the best bet for me.
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I didn't know this happened really quick. I made a comment about it this morning, but when I opened the app it's too late already. I was prompted as a new user too so they're asking for more money. The funny thing about this developer is that they still want you to buy their app at a regular price. So if you're a beginner and want the Mac version of the app. They want you to buy the $50 Mac app then $50 for subscription. I would have thought that all the DayOne is free already and the subscription will take care of the cost.
I personally stopped using this app a while ago because the Mac App was way to expensive. I was using OneNote because of the password protection and it has just about every feature that OneJournal has. But I am now using Word and using the Journal Format just because it is easier and I can password Protect the entire file I put the Docs in. I like Word a lot more than anything else I have found.