Day One VS Medium

Day One Reviews

1. Elizabeth Howard    

   Writer at Elizabeth Howard Digital Marketing | almost 2 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

Medium Reviews

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 / 3 months 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: 5 months 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: 11 months 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: 11 months 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: 11 months ago

Medium mentions (2210)

• Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

  Admittedly, that doesn't look great. I do try to apply Hank Green filters to this sort of thing before I accept it whole cloth, however. So it's not great that the first link I clicked on by the author was this: https://medium.com/@MoonMetropolis/first-public-statement-from-joshua-goldberg-8bb061aa56a0 While I did meet Steve a few times - he left my carcass on the floor after a predictable poker game at a music... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

  Anyone here celebrating Steve Albini's life should be aware that this guy was an unrepentant pedophile: https://medium.com/@MoonMetropolis/now-that-steve-albini-is-dead-lets-reflect-on-his-admitted-love-and-promotion-of-child-fadf5072288e An actual quote from him: > The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler’s puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. >... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61

  Anyone celebrating his life should be aware that this guy was an unrepentant pedophile: https://medium.com/@MoonMetropolis/now-that-steve-albini-is-dead-lets-reflect-on-his-admitted-love-and-promotion-of-child-fadf5072288e. - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Surprised to see that the standard CO2 level on the space station is 4000 ppm

  Related reading "I’m living in a carbon bubble. Literally."[0] which has a lot of great basic charts and graphs on everyday data related to CO2. Information in this reading that is relevant to 4000 PPM on the Space Station * Typical CO2 concentrations can reach 4000 ppm in a car * "On the International Space Station, the odds of a crew member reporting a headache double for every 1300 ppm increase in CO2... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• The search for easier safe systems programming

  > "Systems programming" is hard, and should be hard, for reasons unrelated to the programming language used. The question is: is it harder than it needs to be due to accidental complexity[1] in programming language design. TFA argues that there is still some accidental complexity in the design of Rust that leaves room for an "easier" language that still allows the level of control needed for a systems language.... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago