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Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by lancer »

Pyrodogg wrote: post #101
latortuga wrote: post #77

This used to exist, it was called OhLife. They would email you every day and say "What's happening in your life" and "Hey do you remember this?" with one random email from your history included. I always liked this service and was sad when they shut down. Pretty sure I started using it due to a post right here on HN.

I also used to use Oh Life and loved it. When it shut down I started using DailyDiary [0] which launched an Oh Life importer on Oct 8th, 2014. That's _before_ Oh Life even shut down on Oct 15th, 2014. I've been continuing to use DailyDiary since. I have an apps script that automatically adds a draft response to these prompts, which still starts with an "Oh Life, ...." salutation. The script also adds the day's weathe…

I have a feature in the fast track queue that sounds like the "draft response" you're inserting with script. Ping me - I'd love to get your input on that. lance at dailydiary.com.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by Stratoscope »

graeme wrote: post #112
graeme wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought when reading this was “how do you automate it?” as that was part of the spec. But you can actually do that with Shortcuts, which is build into the system. 1. Make a note with a title like “journal” or “daily log” 2. Open shortcuts, go to automations. Make a new one with a time of day trigger. (Or an alternate if you prefer) 3. Actions: “find all notes where” —> filter for notes name. “ask for input”…

How do I make this list be a list without double spacing or making it a code block....there must be a way?

Double spacing is your only option. Don't make it a code block, as that is unreadable on mobile.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by gglitch »

athenot wrote: post #75

The very humble Notes app on macOS/iOS fulfills this for me. I just start typing, the minimalistic interface gets out of the way. Timestamping is on last modification instead of creation date but I add one manually. That's about my only drawback. Some features I find compelling: - I can start a train of thought on the mac, continue it on the phone and complete it on my mac. - It's not mined by some advertising compan…

Can you say more about "Being so simple, the contents can be exported to some other format very easily"? That has been a sticking point for me, only having the export of individual notes to PDF as a built-in option.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by wtetzner »

marta_morena wrote: post #89

Cool, so people post their diary to an email service? Interesting. Why not just post on Facebook? It's about as public as it gets.

I don't think it's supposed to be public. The idea is that you get an email each day asking about what's going on, you reply, and the service tracks your replies in a way that you can retrieve them.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

graeme wrote: post #112
graeme wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought when reading this was “how do you automate it?” as that was part of the spec. But you can actually do that with Shortcuts, which is build into the system. 1. Make a note with a title like “journal” or “daily log” 2. Open shortcuts, go to automations. Make a new one with a time of day trigger. (Or an alternate if you prefer) 3. Actions: “find all notes where” —> filter for notes name. “ask for input”…

How do I make this list be a list without double spacing or making it a code block....there must be a way?

Hacker News markup does not include lists. To my knowledge, there is not. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

ekianjo wrote: post #96
kingnothing wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? Encrypt it before sending.

How do your friends read it then?

Encrypt it with a symmetric key, and then encrypt the symmetric key separately with each of your friends' public keys.

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by davnicwil »

On seeing this tweet I wondered who would be the first to do it, and how long it would take.

Congratulations, from a fellow hacker - what's it been, 2 days? That's really impressive speed, especially considering it's nice looking.

A lot of people would confidently assume they could knock this out in a couple of days no problem, but it'd actually take them a few weeks at minimum. I had a post on the front page a few weeks ago on the topic [0], perhaps you saw it - I could learn a lot from you :-)

[0] https://boxci.dev/blog/why-it-took-12-weeks-to-ship-an-mvp-I...

Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email

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Post by rahuldottech »

graeme wrote: post #112
graeme wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought when reading this was “how do you automate it?” as that was part of the spec. But you can actually do that with Shortcuts, which is build into the system. 1. Make a note with a title like “journal” or “daily log” 2. Open shortcuts, go to automations. Make a new one with a time of day trigger. (Or an alternate if you prefer) 3. Actions: “find all notes where” —> filter for notes name. “ask for input”…

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