True but what kills it for me isn’t simply Day One goes subscription. What kills it for me is subscription model AND they got rid of icloud syncing.
Now I’m just doing journal on Notes.
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WSJ: Apple to Release iPhone Journaling App for Logging Daily Activities
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Now I’m just doing journal on Notes.
Well hopefully in Apple's hands it won't repeat Day One's fiasco when people's intimate journal entries appeared on other people's devices.
Notes & Freeform could be melded into a journal app. I'd prefer Apple to just have very few really good apps that focus on necessary utilities catering to the basic data types... text, images, and sound. And also make them as open sourced as possible as building blocks for developers. What say you?
Personally, I really like your idea! Fingers crossed that we’ll see some of it at least become a reality!
I think there's great scope for a logging app, integrated with Health and other apps, that could perform some correlations and factor analysis (maybe with some AI thrown in, though Apple seems later to that game) to give people clues as to what things are having effects on their health and well-being. More and more these days clinicians are beginning to understand that there are significant individual differences in health. A sort of extension of 'journaling' into 'logging', with the emphasis on having to make as few manual inputs as possible to avoid it becoming tiresome. I think this kind of thing could be huge.
Maybe they should finish the calculator for the iPad first 🤣
Apple, please do! Day One got crap when it became subscription only. Notability is also incredibly laggy, glitchy when typing on the Mac and seems to freshly download ALL my notes every time I launch it … I emailed the devs, not even an acknowledgement.
Never support indie unless they make it worth your while with consumer friendly models and friendly support. If they can’t do that and hide behind the ‘we need to profit’ crap, leave it to the professionals in big tech.
Never support indie unless they make it worth your while with consumer friendly models and friendly support. If they can’t do that and hide behind the ‘we need to profit’ crap, leave it to the professionals in big tech.
Anytime Apple has created a built in app to do a third party apps job, it’s truly made my life better. Whether it was reminders, medication reminders or the measure app. They nail it.
Frankly if an iPhone came bundled with so many well designed utilities and integrated services that I didn’t need to put third party apps on it, I’d be happy with that and it’d further justify the increasing cost of a modern iPhone.
Well… big doesn’t always mean better… and the “professionals in big tech” have been known to screw things up just as much as the indies. I would agree that in principle, the bigger manufacturers and devs at least have more resources to make things happen.
We would expect “consumer-friendly models” and friendly support, whatever the size of the developer or company offering the software.
Last I checked they were not sold to anyone other than square space. If I assume they’d be sound jammed I would have written that but I don’t think they sit on any core tech that apple would need to have a successful competitor.
Why? Apple privacy practices are among the best. They would keep that data private, on device, and E2EE when possible.
Although the health features are interesting, I’d really like the ability to log my day so I can refer back to time spent on activities and notes I took related to events. I’ve tried a number of apps and haven’t found one I like. First party means it could log things like application or website use.
Has anyone actually seen this new Apple Journal app in action in any capacity yet?
Apple is planning to launch a Day One-style iPhone journaling app to let users compile their daily activities, as part of its efforts in the physical and mental health market, reports The Wall Street Journal.
From the paywalled report:
Based on documents seen by WSJ, a personalization feature will highlight potential topics for users to write about, such as a workout, while the app will also offer "All Day People Discovery" to detect a user's physical proximity to other people.
According to the report, Apple's app will have the ability to gather much more user data than third-party journaling apps, and will have access to text messages and phone calls, but privacy and security will be central to the software's design. The analysis of the user's day will take place on-device, and journaling suggestions will remain in the system for four weeks, after which they will be removed.
It's not known when the app will be released, but it could be announced as soon as WWDC in June, when iOS 17 is set to be previewed, and could be a feature of the new operating system. The documents seen by WSJ offered no indication as to whether Apple plans to charge for the journaling app. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment.
Article Link: WSJ: Apple to Release iPhone Journaling App for Logging Daily Activities
The Health app in iOS/iPadOS 17 now features the ability to log your moods for the moment or for the entire day. It's not really the same as full-fledged journaling, but it's possible that Apple will only "go this far, and no farther" in regard to the so-called journaling feature. There are already hordes of third-party apps that offer journaling functionality—Day One, Journey, Diarly, Moleskine Journey Life Planner, Diarium... the list goes on and on... not to mention the crossover between journaling and just plain "writing"... and we all know of the deluge of writing and text editing apps on the App Store alone for all Apple platforms, macOS in particular.
It doesn't seem that adding journal writing functionality to the Apple "ecosystem" on the part of Apple themselves would add much value, or that Apple would be able to (or wish to) do anything much better than what's already out there. After all, they haven't done anything in terms of calculator apps for iPadOS, and look how long it took them to port the Clock app to macOS.
I could, of course, be proven wrong.
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Ah, then disregard (mostly) what I just said, although you weren't replying to me anyway 😅 I didn't watch the keynote in its entirety, so I missed that, although I vaguely recalled that Apple was going to do something about journal-style notes.
I still don't really know what Apple can bring to the table that hasn't been done a dozen times already by third-party developers in the realm of journaling. Maybe integration with Health data, the latest moods feature and so on.