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Re: Ask HN: Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?

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Post by ajlburke »

raju wrote: post #39

Website looks good (Still waiting on your email - No worries though) A couple of things spring to mind which other HN'ers have addressed, but I will put my thoughts down regardless 1. Having an iPhone app is great - given the fact that you can take pictures, log your location - but for a large part of my day, I have a full blown keyboard and a 25" screen - and not being able to use that to jot down thoughts defeats t…

Shameless plug: you might like Remembary (http://remembary.com/) - it's based more around writing in your diary, but it also pulls in Twitter and Facebook and RSS feeds like Momento. It also automatically finds the pictures you took each day, and puts any geotagged stuff into a no-work-required map. It automatically fetches your calendar entries (well actually it doesn't at this exact moment due to an iOS6 bug but it will in about a week), It doesn't have a desktop client but it was originally built for iPad and now has an iPhone version. It has a manual data export/import option instead of 'syncing' but I decided that privacy is more important than seamlessness. It doesn't really have tags or address book integration, but given your other other requirements I think you might find it interesting.

Re: Ask HN: Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?

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Post by ajlburke »

razor wrote: post #6
ajlburke wrote: post #4

Looks nice. I'm curious though: the site mentions that everything is synced through the Cloud. Did you use iCloud or is it a home-grown solution - or something else? Sync is hard - and I've found iCloud sync in practice is still pretty hard.

Hi and thank you for the complement. It's all home-grown solution. Sync was definitely hard but it was one of my top priorities from the very beginning. Though it definitely still needs a bit of an improvement but it's working beautifully at the moment.

Congratulations! I think sync is much easier when it's done up front rather than bolted on later.

I'm wondering if sync might have stalled the Momento guys - they had big plans for Android and iPad versions but haven't brought anything out besides small fixes in over a year. (Disclosure: I'm in the iOS diary space too).

Re: Ask HN: Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?

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Post by rohern »

razor wrote: post #25
rohern wrote: post #19

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Agreed. razor, you should brainstorm and change your branding. That is not a good name. It's not even particularly pronounceable.

Your voices have been heard. I'll definitely consider it and see if there's something I can come up with. For now it's Blobly. ;)

You should name it Madeleine. Ready-made logo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_%28cake%29#Literary_r...

Re: Ask HN: Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?

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Post by jaredonline »

razor wrote: post #12
jaredonline wrote: post #5

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It looks like this is a private version of Path, and if that's the case, this may be just what I'm looking for! I'd love to ditch "social networks" and have my own way to store my moments and memories in the cloud on a timeline. I just don't want the rest of the world to see.

This is the exact reason why I built this app. It's completely private and it will stay that way. I really want us to be completely honest with ourselves when it comes to writing an entry. Because you are your only audience, I hope this will encourage us to just pour our hearts into it without the fear of others reading it.

Yay! Now I'm just patiently awaiting my invite [-;
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