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.
Who backs it
Sorted by strength of stance
- 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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