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Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Post by maebert »

colinbartlett wrote: post #25
blader wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do sync the data to our servers, which you can switch off. We've engineered it so that if you just want to keep the data on your phone, the app will still work fine, and you can rely on your iTunes/iCloud backups.

Any plans for a kind of "export"? I like this idea a lot, as someone with a terrible memory but that doesn't use social media like Foursquare. I would only worry about a way to have my data permanently. Outside of the app which could be pulled from the AppStore at any time.

Engineer @heyday here. We've already got an export-to-json prototype, but it's not quite ready for the public yet. And of course we want to export into a beautiful format for the average user as well.

Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Post by dmazin »

methehack wrote: post #53
dmazin wrote: post #47

I am floored by you weaving feature explanations with permission grants. That is art.

Totally agree. Super-elegant. Often the permission grant seems like you're doing the app a favor. In this case it seemed like the app was doing you a favor.

Sort of... though just to nit-pick a bit, an application should never feel like it's doing you a favor (Heyday doesn't). It should feel like it completely defers to you. But we agree.

Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Post by maebert »

mugenx86 wrote: post #19
blader wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you disable syncing it's as secure as your device is ... which is to say probably not that secure. =(

Security against NSA/espionage really shouldn't be a concern considering nobody that paranoid would even use this app, let alone pay for it.

Nobody that paranoid should use an iPhone. Or any phone, actually...

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Post by kmf »

nlh wrote: post #20

Congrats! I'm on a plane now so haven't been able to download but it looks like it addresses the major complaint I have about journaling apps (i.e. Day One, which I use and, for the most part, love) -- which is that if you forget/are too busy/get behind, the queue just gets bigger and bigger and more overwhelming. I go through phases with Day One where I write every day, but sometimes I'm just too busy and instead ta…

+1 here. I forget to log with Day One pretty often (even with their Mac notifications, which give you a text field to begin writing on), but I'm also not convinced that I was as much information as something like Slogger[1] gives me. Especially with things like the new M7 sensor in the 5S, there's huge potential for passive journaling where a great deal of information can be gathered locally without ever typing a word.

[1]: https://github.com/ttscoff/slogger

Re: Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.

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Post by tunesmith »

colinbartlett wrote: post #25
blader wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do sync the data to our servers, which you can switch off. We've engineered it so that if you just want to keep the data on your phone, the app will still work fine, and you can rely on your iTunes/iCloud backups.

Any plans for a kind of "export"? I like this idea a lot, as someone with a terrible memory but that doesn't use social media like Foursquare. I would only worry about a way to have my data permanently. Outside of the app which could be pulled from the AppStore at any time.

I basically can't use any journal app either unless I can export and own the data - as in, remix it into a different format if I choose. I've used two journal apps so far and have lost journaling data both times (both apps still exist). If there's a journaling app that lets me export to text/metadata every week to store in some repo, but where I still prefer to use that app for input and display purposes... that's a great journaling app.
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