There is a typo in the url at the end of the How did your day go? email. Should be ohlife.com/today, not ohlife.come/today
Thanks for the heads up!
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Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#42It'd be nice to have some export feature. After few months, if I will use this, you are going to have quite a lot of entries from me, and all of them are important to me, I don't want to lose them, so I'd like to be able to easily make backups to my own computer.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#43The design is beautiful, but why would I use this over WriteRoom? For years now, I've been writing at least 500 words in WriteRoom every single weekday, and I'm closing in on a year of doing it (and a bunch of other habits) without missing a single day. It's not that hard, I know I'll probably never lose my entries (time machine + dropbox backups), and my privacy is more assured. I'm just not sure I see the advantage here...
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#44great now I have des'ray in my head.
interesting idea... I'll give it a go for a while until someone realises I email myself everyday. Does it get angry if I don't reply?
mini feedback on home page: The 'see example' link needs to scroll the page down for me, I didn't spot the page grow and was waiting for it to load.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#45Really like the simplicity of the idea and clean look of the site. Already replied to the welcome message - waiting for it to post to the site.
I like the daily emails as I don't visit too many sites daily, apart from HN and Gmail. This will be an easy way to log all that I'm up to. I'm not sure how regularly I'll do this, but time will tell.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#46The design is beautiful, but why would I use this over WriteRoom? For years now, I've been writing at least 500 words in WriteRoom every single weekday, and I'm closing in on a year of doing it (and a bunch of other habits) without missing a single day. It's not that hard, I know I'll probably never lose my entries (time machine + dropbox backups), and my privacy is more assured. I'm just not sure I see the advantage…
Writeroom + timemachine + dropbox. I don't think you're the target market :)
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#47Quick first glance feedback on the page, take it or leave it: a) "the easiest way to" lowercase start and then "Write your life story" uppercase start. Seems weird to me. The other way around or both uppercase. b) Top bar seems empty, maybe an actual logo (that adds some other color/shade) would chance that. c) "See an example" needs no-Javascript fallback. I assumed a video behind it. Pleasant surprise to see someth…
Re: e) (This is purely my personal opinion, but …) Anyone who uses the serial comma [1] must be seriously insane. How can you? Doesn’t your brain explode? (Calm down, calm down … [2] … there, better.)
Friendlier is indeed a word, the comparative of friendly.
Amazing idea, by the way, beautifully executed and immediately captured my imagination.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#48Hey HN - we made this in our spare time, just because it was something we wanted to use. When we told some friends about the idea though they wanted to use it too, so we decided to release it. Many thanks for checking it out.
I love the idea. Love it. Like, really excited. However, I'm not prepared to use a service like this in a hosted environment. Too many risks: you go out of business, security, privacy, etc. Plus the information just feels to personal to be sitting on someone else's server. I would love to see a quick daily prompt like this added to Macjournal or similar software.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#49Hey HN - we made this in our spare time, just because it was something we wanted to use. When we told some friends about the idea though they wanted to use it too, so we decided to release it. Many thanks for checking it out.
I love the idea. Love it. Like, really excited. However, I'm not prepared to use a service like this in a hosted environment. Too many risks: you go out of business, security, privacy, etc. Plus the information just feels to personal to be sitting on someone else's server. I would love to see a quick daily prompt like this added to Macjournal or similar software.
That said, I'm sure there is a target market out there who will be more than willing to use the product in its current format. I'm looking forward to seeing where this idea goes.
Re: Please check out our side project, OhLife (from MeetingMix, YC S08)
#50Hey HN - we made this in our spare time, just because it was something we wanted to use. When we told some friends about the idea though they wanted to use it too, so we decided to release it. Many thanks for checking it out.
Love it! I've used penzu.com intermittently throughout the yr and every so often get lost in reading past entries!
One thing I've always "wondered" about more than concerned is privacy. Being a journal, I write out some of the deepest and most personal things in it. I'd find it assuring if you guys laid out your thoughts on privacy. I know there is only so much you can do but merely knowing your longterm vision will help.
Last thing I want is to do a journal on a site whose longterm vision is to open up the journal for public viewing ala facebook. If that was the longterm vision(to open it up), I may still use it but for a different purpose.