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Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
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Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you a lot, I got the illustrations on https://craftwork.design
I have never heard of that service (looks pretty interesting actually), but at the bottom it says trust by Uber, Pinterest, Google, etc. Does this mean these companies are outsourcing their graphics, mock ups, etc.?
It's common for companies to outsource work that's more of a one-off "project" with a discrete deliverable than a continuously developed "product", whether that work is coding, graphics, or anything else.
For example, even though Salesforce obviously has a lot of talented programmers on the payroll, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Dreamforce conference website is built by a separate firm.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#73I just email myself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ e: Also, I used to use https://750words.com which is quite similar.
>>> I just email myself Sometimes I don't even press "Send". Just keep pages of daily notes in the "Draft" folder ;)
This is how I use Sublime Text 3. I use it as my infinite clipboard / pastebin. After months of not using them I clear them out.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#74The service that Paul Graham mentioned is probably this one: http://ohlife.com Shutdown announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8345881 I used it and loved it. It was cool while it lasted. Unfortunately it's just one more example for why I don't trust startups. Also you probably don't need a service, personally I can just send email to yourself, PGP encrypted. The only bit that's missing is a periodic remi…
Funnily enough, I also used and loved it, and it was the inspiration to build Diary Email. > But I can probably set that up as a cron job Almost every app could be replaced with email, a cron job or a spreadsheet ;-)
I'm glad to see someone retry building something similar, but the problem is that OhLife is a service launched 10 years ago [1].
Many of us were not aware of privacy issues then, plus we were naive enough to think that the services we adopted would survive if cool enough.
I loved OhLife, but now 10 years later I wouldn't subscribe to a clone. Fool me once etc.
I wish you succeed though. It's a cool project and your landing page looks good.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#75The 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 company, no subject to the viability of some business.
- Being so simple, the contents can be exported to some other format very easily.
- Works offline (only background sync requires connection).
- And search is near instant since everything is stored locally.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#76Yesterday Paul Graham asked for an email diary service ( https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1216714155731890176 ): > Is there an easy way to build, or a startup that offers, something that will email you once a day asking "What's happening?" and then accumulate the replies? I did just that! Let me know what you think.
He also wrote > Unfortunately, though, in this one case I can't promise that if you build it, I'll use it. Unless I know you, I can't trust that you won't read my emails. (I trusted the previous startup that did it because we'd funded them.) How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ? I've seen the statement in your website: > Your data stored and transferred securely. No one will ever read or process your…
> How do you solve the "won't read my emails" problem ?
Encrypt it before sending.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#77This 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.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#78A hard limit of 30 friends is a bit annoying.
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#79The 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…
Agreed that this works well for some workflows. That said, part of pg's "design brief" was the workflow: receive an email and reply to it, his reason for replying being "to get it out of my inbox".
Re: Show HN: Write a private diary using good old email
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have never heard of that service (looks pretty interesting actually), but at the bottom it says trust by Uber, Pinterest, Google, etc. Does this mean these companies are outsourcing their graphics, mock ups, etc.?
Likely not. All these companies have dedicated design teams. I believe it means that they use the asset library within their projects.
that is what i thought also.