I used to love this app
The first version of the Day One app was... A revelation. It was the first time I felt any journaling app could be worth my time (and money). Before then, I didnt trust journaling apps, preferring instead to simply making my own solution: Markdown pages saved in Dropbox. I could then post these to Wordpress if I so wished.
Then the original Day One came out and, again, revelation. Suddenly I could post my journals publicly if I wanted; I could save my posts to Dropbox; I could write in a clean environment that was, largely, free of bugs. My only complaints were the one-picture limitation, and the lack of notebooks. The later was a good thing, in some ways, because it taught me the value of effective tagging. The former... Well, that could be added, right?
Then Day One 2 came out. It promised notebooks, with the same clean interface. It was everything I wanted! So without a moments hesitation, I plunked down the cash for both the iPhone app and the desktop app. I wanted to support this developer.
For a while, things were OK. There were some bugs here and there, I could no longer save my stuff to Dropbox, and I could no longer publish my writings. (This was a huge disappointment.) But the overall experience was still OK. The multi-images meant the way that posts were displayed on my phone changed in a way I didnt like, but I was still willing to work with it. And the notebooks meant more information, which meant more tags. Not bad. Thats a "me" thing, not a DayOne thing.
But then stability issues crept in. The app would crash once in a while, more so than before. (The iPad app was rock solid. The desktop app, not so much.) This would interrupt my workflow and, sometimes, lead to data loss. After that, I noticed that when working on longer journal entries, the screen would seem to skip randomly, particularly if I was editing a completed journal, so that it would take a second to know what I was doing.
What was once a fun experience now turned into a chore.
And so, while I *WANT* to give this app a higher rating, while I *WANT* to give this developer all my support... I just cant. Im thinking about moving all my stuff over. Maybe Ill do what I was doing before. Maybe Ill move to Evernote, instead. Maybe... I dont know. But Im not happy with DayOne2. Maybe I should switch back to the original DayOne.
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Day One Journal: Private Diary