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Post by melonhead on Sept 21, 2014 21:30:21 GMT
I'm pretty sure I learned about OhLife here. It is an online diary of sorts that gave an email reminder each day. Answer the email and you have a diary entry. I was able to include pictures and everything. Yay.
They have a text download option for entries already there, but they are shutting down the site on October 4th. That's 2 weeks!
What are your recommendations for an online diary? I want to be able to look back and see when I did stuff, and also remember that I did stuff. This is a little too personal for a blog, KWIM?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 21:32:43 GMT
I posted this on my blog earlier today. I asked for suggestions for a replacement and will let you know if I get any. I'm old school; I just write things down in my paper dayplanner, LOL.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Sept 21, 2014 21:32:54 GMT
Do a blog, but make it private, so no one can see it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 21:33:02 GMT
Microsoft Word/Works Not online but then you never have to worry about the site closing. You do have to enter your own date.
Do a blog but set it to private so no one can see it and don't share the link.
eta: blogger allows for no publishing to search engines and a restricted followers list that requires you list them in order for them to view it. Just leave the list empty.
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Post by krispin41 on Sept 21, 2014 22:04:36 GMT
Thanks for the heads up...I haven't used it as of late...but would like to keep what I have written.
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Post by scrapbookwriter on Sept 21, 2014 23:03:19 GMT
I love Oh Life. The big advantage to me was the daily reminder. If I happened to be on my computer when the e-mail message came in, I would quickly write up my day. Otherwise I wouldn't have thought of writing a journal entry at all.
I downloaded all my entries last night. Despite the many times I would skip days or weeks in a row, my 40-some entries give a really great snapshot of the last six months of my life. I am so glad for those Oh Life prompts.
Any suggestions on setting up a prompt some other way?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 0:02:20 GMT
If you happen to use a Mac or iPad, try Day One. It's a wonderful journaling app. And since it's not an online service, but software that you control, you don't have to worry about losing your content if the service shuts down. |
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Post by kristi on Sept 22, 2014 0:04:54 GMT
I use the Day 1 app.
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Post by snappinsami on Sept 22, 2014 2:33:57 GMT
I used OhLife for a while, but haven't used it in over a year. I've seen Day One and am definitely intrigued by it, but part of me really loves a paper journal. (Weird, because everything else I do is digital, and I don't have any problems with that. Of course, if I'm actually USING the paper journal, what good is it?) For those of you that use Day One, do you have to buy separate apps for both your phone and Mac, or does one purchase cover both?
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Post by lgr4 on Sept 22, 2014 3:38:25 GMT
I would like to hear if anybody finds anything close! I love the email feature.
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Post by candygurl on Sept 22, 2014 3:40:16 GMT
I love the Day 1 app too. I like to use it on vacation to remember what I did each day. It was easy to use and I liked how you could include photos.
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Post by moosedogtoo on Sept 22, 2014 4:02:58 GMT
I have a reminder set in my google calendar and then I put my journaling in a private wordpress blog.
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Post by anonrefugee on Sept 22, 2014 4:25:19 GMT
What about an App? I use Momento, you can tag and add photos. It allows sorting by tags and a few options for downloading or printing . No reminders, but it's on my phone home page so it's visible all the time.
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Post by disneypal on Sept 22, 2014 8:25:39 GMT
I saw the email about this. I really like Oh Life, so easy just to reply to the reminder email. What a shame it is closing. I think I will just go back to a paper , handwritten journal.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2014 14:17:00 GMT
Another Day One user. I love the app. I love that I can use is across all my Mac devices and everything stays sync'd. I love that at the end of the year I can export all entries (words, photos, URLs, etc.) into a PDF for later reference. I don't see Day One going away anytime soon.
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Post by jenjie on Sept 23, 2014 11:19:41 GMT
Maybe try Evernote. You can use it on your computer or phone. It's a place for you to store your own personal notes. I think you can set up a reminder on the app.
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Post by r00k on Oct 9, 2014 2:04:36 GMT
Hey all! I'm a fellow OhLife refugee. I was crushed to hear that they were shutting down. However, I'm also a programmer. I got together with a programmer/designer friend of mine, and we built an OhLife replacement. It's called Trailmix: www.trailmix.life/pages/ohlife-alternative. It acts exactly like OhLife did. We haven't added any new features except one: we charge a small monthly fee. We're doing this so that we can keep the service running for many years into the future. It's great to have my daily journaling tool back again. I hope you might like it too. I'm happy to answer any questions (and would love your feedback!) -Ben |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 2:15:42 GMT
I have an app called Momento. It reminds me every night to update.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 2:16:45 GMT
What about an App? I use Momento, you can tag and add photos. It allows sorting by tags and a few options for downloading or printing . No reminders, but it's on my phone home page so it's visible all the time. Anonrefugee, you can set it for reminders. Mine prompts me at night. |
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Post by anonrefugee on Oct 9, 2014 2:36:05 GMT
Hmmmm I me do look into this.
Eta epically bad autofill! I need to look into this.
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Post by uksue on Oct 9, 2014 7:33:57 GMT
I am another that uses day one. I would also forget if it didn't remind me to journal!
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Post by lightetc on Oct 9, 2014 8:15:22 GMT
I set up a new email address - e.g. journal@emailprovider.com
Set a normal reminder on my phone and I can send an email with my entry and the date in the subject line. Logging into the email account gives me all the entries. It's not quite as easy but close enough...
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Post by marbemac on Nov 25, 2014 19:55:43 GMT
I built dayjot.com, an alternative to OhLife. The hosted version is paid only ($1/month) with a 1 month free trial to avoid another OhLife-esque shutdown scenario, but you can always run it yourself since it's open source (https://github.com/marbemac/dayjot). |
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