Day One Reviews

1. Elizabeth Howard

   · Writer at Elizabeth Howard Digital Marketing · about 4 years ago
   I live in Day One

   I have been using Day One since it was in beta. I am a writer and digital content specialist so I do a lot of writing. Day One has grown in capability and beauty since its inception -- I use it more and more everyday.

   To be frank, I tried to use EverNote but found to cumbersome and a bit much. For my mind, Day One provided the perfect palelette for me to sit down and write anything -- the tag it, or easily move it to another journal. It allows up to 10 journals, one of which I have synced to my Instagram, as I like to keep a record of what I post there.

   If you are writing daily, doing Morning Pages, if you blog and need a place to work on drafts, Day One's set up is so easy. It syncs over the cloud to your phone (I'm on Apple products, recognizes voice to text smoothly and allows images to be easily drag and dropped.

   The interface with tagging could be slightly more intuitive but the team is constantly doing updates and I am sure that will be worked out soon.

   I love it and recommend it to anyone writing.

   🏁 Competitors: Evernote, Scrivener, Microsoft Word, Google Docs

   👍 Pros:    Intuitive|Beautiful search experience|Instagram|Easy user interface|Inexpensive|Great for writers|Great value for the money

   👎 Cons:    Tagging needs to be made easier

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Day One mentions (32)

• Show HN: Text Lambda, a versatile notebook for your personal data

  Well done! it’s cross platform. I can see this be used as a geek-friendly Day One [1]. [1] https://dayoneapp.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Looking for a windows app

  Have you tried dayoneapp.com - its been a long time since I used it, it's more of an iOS app than Windows but I think it works on the web. Source: over 2 years ago

• desperate for help

  I journal on and off but I find it difficult to get myself to make it stick as a habit. Physical journaling is tough sometimes because I'm not home etc etc... But I'm thinking of trying out the Day One journal. Source: about 3 years ago

• Apple’s new journaling app turns your iPhone into a digital diary

  There’s been journaling apps since iPhone came out, like the excellent Day One. Source: about 3 years ago

• What laptop and apps do you use to write?

  For general diary writing, I use Day One. It's clean, easy to use, and has no frills. You just...write. When I got it, it was one price but now it's a subscription for $2.99 a month. Source: about 3 years ago

Linear mentions (162)

• The Tradeoff That Slows Production Teams Down: Flexibility vs Actually Shipping

  Speed matters. Not speed in sprint or linear dashboards. Not speed in story points. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Freshworks Just Shipped an MCP Gateway Inside Its ITSM Platform. Here's What That Actually Changes.

  Model Context Protocol, for context, is the emerging standard for letting AI agents pull live data from external systems without custom integration code. Freshworks has implemented it as a native layer in Freddy AI, which means agents can now reach into Notion, ClickUp, Linear, Workday, Rippling, and the rest of the enterprise stack — not through brittle webhooks or bespoke connectors, but through a standardized... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• How to Document and Track Technical Debt

  Issue trackers: GitHub Issues, Linear, or Jira work well because technical debt records live in the same tool as feature work. This makes them easier to pull into sprint planning and keeps the debt backlog visible alongside the feature backlog. The main risk is that debt issues get buried under feature issues without careful labeling and triage discipline. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• How to Write a Technical Debt Remediation Plan for Non-Technical Stakeholders

  Linear and similar tools can track velocity metrics per area of the codebase over time, making the before/after comparison straightforward to document. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Master the in demand of salary negotiation and system design: What Fails

  Most engineers fail salary negotiations because they use vague statements like "I work hard" or "I’m a good teammate" instead of quantified, verifiable impact. After 15 years of negotiating offers, I’ve found that engineers who tie their ask to concrete business outcomes land 30% higher offers than those who don’t. For example, instead of saying "I improved the API", say "I reduced API p99 latency by 400ms, which... - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago