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 2.0.9 – Maintain a daily journal. Day One is the easiest and best-looking way to use a journal / diary / text-logging application for the Mac. Day One is well designed and extremely focused to encourage you to write more through quick Menu Bar entry, a Reminder system, and inspirational messages. Support for Dropbox. With multiple bookmarks, a ready-to-go Index, and clearly marked sections, it has never been easier to find the right page. 12 One Line Per Day journal pages. The One Line Per Day section makes it easy to build a daily journaling habit. Never feel you're too busy to journal ever again.
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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.
As I was growing up, I was always interested in keeping a journal to document my life. I tried several times to get into journaling. I still have those journals where I wrote somewhere between five and fifteen entries before either forgetting or losing interest. Never had I been able to journal consistently despite how much I wanted to or how many pretty new notebooks I got.
Then, in 2013, I discovered Day One, and that changed my journaling game.
Day One is an iOS and Mac journaling application. It syncs beautifully across all your devices and lets you add multiple journals, photos and tags to your entries, and create reminders for you to write. You can log your location, the current weather data, your step count, and even the music you're listening to.
I'm all for the look and feel of a physical journal, but the convenience of being able to journal on-the-go with my phone and instantly add photos to document my day is unbeatable.
Let's get into the meat of this post: how I use Day One.
First off I have five different journals within Day One. As you can guess, Daily Musings is where I write my daily journal entries. I have missed a few days here and there, but for the most part, I have been writing daily since the fall of 2013. Writing in Day One has become part of my routine and my day feels incomplete without doing it.
Some of these daily entries are only a couple of short sentences, but sometimes, but when I have more to say, I'll write a few paragraphs.
I'll write about what I've been up to that day, and about what's on my mind. If any major event happens, I'll include that. During the spring of senior year, I would write an entry as each of my college decisions came out and tagged so I could see them all together. I also had tags for entries with my track times, SAT scores (I'm such a nerd, I know), and snow days and delays from school. I even had a phase where I tagged what I wore to school on my daily entry so I could check that I wasn't wearing the same top twice within a couple of weeks (I'm a little embarrassed about this, but I have to admit Day One served the purpose).
My next journal is Reflections. This is mostly made up of monthly reflections that I write at the end of each month. These personal reflections are pretty casual. I normally write about 300 words about the highs and lows about the last month and what I wish I would have done better. Some months I'm more insightful than others, but in some I end up just highlighting the things that have happened.
I also have a few school year reflections from high school and am writing semester reflections for college. In these, I'll reflect on the goals I set before the school year or semester began, what I did best, and what I've learned for next time.
Writing reflections helps put my life into perspective and make me seriously think about what kind of direction I'm going in, so I'm really glad I started doing them.
I've only just started the last three journals recently. Reviews is for my thoughts in books, movies, and anything else I feel I want to write about. In Goals, I really just have some new years' resolutions. In Notes, I currently just have blog post ideas, but I started the journal with the intent that it would be the place where I would could just jot things down there rather than opening up a Word Document or using stickies.
Day One 2 0 3 – Maintain A Daily Journal Impact Factor
Day One 2 0 3 – Maintain A Daily Journal Articles
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.
As I was growing up, I was always interested in keeping a journal to document my life. I tried several times to get into journaling. I still have those journals where I wrote somewhere between five and fifteen entries before either forgetting or losing interest. Never had I been able to journal consistently despite how much I wanted to or how many pretty new notebooks I got.
Then, in 2013, I discovered Day One, and that changed my journaling game.
Day One is an iOS and Mac journaling application. It syncs beautifully across all your devices and lets you add multiple journals, photos and tags to your entries, and create reminders for you to write. You can log your location, the current weather data, your step count, and even the music you're listening to.
I'm all for the look and feel of a physical journal, but the convenience of being able to journal on-the-go with my phone and instantly add photos to document my day is unbeatable.
Let's get into the meat of this post: how I use Day One.
First off I have five different journals within Day One. As you can guess, Daily Musings is where I write my daily journal entries. I have missed a few days here and there, but for the most part, I have been writing daily since the fall of 2013. Writing in Day One has become part of my routine and my day feels incomplete without doing it.
Some of these daily entries are only a couple of short sentences, but sometimes, but when I have more to say, I'll write a few paragraphs.
I'll write about what I've been up to that day, and about what's on my mind. If any major event happens, I'll include that. During the spring of senior year, I would write an entry as each of my college decisions came out and tagged so I could see them all together. I also had tags for entries with my track times, SAT scores (I'm such a nerd, I know), and snow days and delays from school. I even had a phase where I tagged what I wore to school on my daily entry so I could check that I wasn't wearing the same top twice within a couple of weeks (I'm a little embarrassed about this, but I have to admit Day One served the purpose).
My next journal is Reflections. This is mostly made up of monthly reflections that I write at the end of each month. These personal reflections are pretty casual. I normally write about 300 words about the highs and lows about the last month and what I wish I would have done better. Some months I'm more insightful than others, but in some I end up just highlighting the things that have happened.
I also have a few school year reflections from high school and am writing semester reflections for college. In these, I'll reflect on the goals I set before the school year or semester began, what I did best, and what I've learned for next time.
Writing reflections helps put my life into perspective and make me seriously think about what kind of direction I'm going in, so I'm really glad I started doing them.
I've only just started the last three journals recently. Reviews is for my thoughts in books, movies, and anything else I feel I want to write about. In Goals, I really just have some new years' resolutions. In Notes, I currently just have blog post ideas, but I started the journal with the intent that it would be the place where I would could just jot things down there rather than opening up a Word Document or using stickies.
Day One 2 0 3 – Maintain A Daily Journal Impact Factor
Most of the time I journal on my MacBook, but I also often journal on my iPad. I usually only journal on my iPhone when I'm traveling or super busy. I prefer to write my reflections on my MacBook since they're longer and the physical keyboard makes it easier to type.
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One of my absolute favorite things about Day One is looking back on old entries. Diskkeeper pro 1 4 15. Using its 'On this Day' feature, I can quickly find all my entries that I've written on that day throughout the years. It is so cool to see what I was up to one, two, and three years ago.
Day One makes journaling more accessible and fun to use. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to start journaling, but has a tough time doing it consistently. I would also recommend it to someone who already keeps a physical journal, but would appreciate the extra features of Day One like adding photos and your location. Additionally, you would never have the fear of losing your journal with Day One syncing your entries to your account!
Do you like to journal? Do you already use or would like to use an app like Day One? Let me know in the comments below! Wallpaper wizard 2 1 52.
Best,
Angie
