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Re: OhLife is shutting down

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For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

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Re: OhLife is shutting down

#102

This is why I think a service like Sandstorm[1] will eventually be huge for web app development. Like OhLife, there are tons of apps that are useful enough for many people to use, but can't easily be monetized due to hosting costs. If OhLife were available on Sandstorm, someone like me could click-install OhLife on my own personal server, much like the app store for iOS. In addition, I the user also benefit by keepin…

Even better if I were in their position I'd just opensource the entire site, or a part of it to sandstorm so it can be longlived for the customers who liked it, and possibly even get a bump in popularity.

If I'm already just going to scrap the code, might as well spend a week to give my customers an alternative, it isn't like the code is worth anything at this point.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#103
post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Also very interested in an import tool please.

Similar to a few posts here, I've been using OhLife for 4+ years and have ~1500 entries that I'd love to be able to port into Daily Diary.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#104
1032 entries that I'm trying to figure out an alternative for. Nov 2010. Funny timing on alot of folks parts. I used Oh Life as a daily photo / three sentence journal and then Day One across my Apple devices for my private thoughts. Seems like the logical move is to figure out the import tools you kind people have posted and go all in on Day One.

When I was initially looking around I tried Penzu and a few others but it was more than I wanted. I loved the simplicity of Oh Life and having the email sit in my inbox as a "to do" reminder. I suspect Day One uses Apple's built in reminders which wouldn't force me to clean up my inbox the way a dozen Oh Life emails does.

Thanks Oh Life. I'll miss you.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#105
post #49
post #33

This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/

Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!

Time capsule feature sounds cool. I hope you add that. I'm signed up.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#106
A great service that I loved using, a shame to see it go. I do appreciate the text-only export in a simple format, makes it easy to parse for future use.

I hope one of the many alternatives listed in this thread hop on providing import functionality.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#107
I knew this will happen. About 400 notes over past 3 years. I used to write directly online by just typing "oh" in the firefox's addressbar, which was the keyboard shortcut for https://ohlife.com/past, hit write button and start writing. That simple! Now every thing's about to disappear. This little sancuary where I used to hang with my memory. Things don't last but they should. at least till we are here.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#108
post #40

For everyone who enjoys journaling via email, you may find DailyDiary a suitable alternative. A comparable question might be: https://www.dailydiary.com/questions/342540/how-did-your-day... Disclosure: I'm the founder. If there’s interest, I’m happy to add an import for OhLife exports.

Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. An option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

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post #49
post #33

This looks like a viable, albeit less functional, alternative: http://dailydiary.com/

Less functional in the sense that it doesn't support attaching a picture to replies and doesn't include a past entry in the daily reminder, but I'm happy to fast track both of those features if there's demand. Let me know if there's other features you'd like to see!

Thanks for all the comments. An importer is in the works. And an option to include past entries in daily reminders will follow.

Re: OhLife is shutting down

#110
post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My take with Onenote instead of dropbox.. https://ifttt.com/recipes/205212-ohlife-email https://ifttt.com/recipes/205213-record-your-daily-journal-i...

Hey awa, I work on the OneNote team – would you mind us potentially featuring this on our blog?

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