Day One
Journaling app for Apple platforms, Android and the web with encrypted sync
Day One keeps dated entries with photos, audio, location and weather attached, syncs them end to end encrypted, and can lock the journal behind Face ID. It prompts when you have nothing to say, tracks streaks and prints bound books from a date range. Some people write straight into it; others use it as the archive for handwriting, voice memos and screenshots captured somewhere else.
People on record
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- David SparksDoes it
Apple productivity writer · MacSparky
Two wildfire evacuations taught him to scan his handwritten notebook pages into Day One. The writing itself happens longhand in a Rhodia Webnotebook, a few of them a year, and the app holds the scans.
Source: MacSparky: Studio
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Journaling
Writing to unload the mind, usually first thing or last thing
On record from 14 of 62 tracked people: 13 do it, 1 recommends it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Daily Stoic
366 short Stoic passages with modern commentary, one per day
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it, 1 has discussed it - ProtocolFREE, no cost
Workday shutdown ritual
A fixed end-of-day routine that closes open loops so work stops
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 has discussed it - HabitFREE, no cost
Deliberate discomfort
Choosing the thing you do not want to do, daily, as its own training
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it, 2 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Collected thinking on wealth, specific knowledge and happiness
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 recommend it - Book$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday on the ways self-importance wrecks aspiring, succeeding and failing
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 recommend it
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