MemPad VS Day One

MemPad Reviews

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

MemPad mentions (5)

• How do you record your ideas throughout the day?

  I spend 90% of my time at a Windows keyboard, so use MemPad https://horstmuc.de/wmem.htm as a software version of a spiral-bound notebook. It does literally nothing other than being a stack of notepad pages that you can reorder or search. Source: about 1 year ago

• Dungeons and Dragons Digital Character Sheet and document formatting questions

  If he prefers to maintain plaintext notes somewhere else, the best tool I've found is a version of a sectionable spiral notebook. MemPad does the trick wonderfully. Source: about 2 years ago

• got Linux running on a dell inspiron 8100 antix is the only distro that would show a display and that supported 32bit systems

  All Office programs, and most 'big' editors have outlining modes, but to me the small size is a necessary feature; Unhelpful Linux developers have often suggested that I use emacs in org-mode - but since I need to save 10.000's of files, each together with the creating software, a 600 MB installation is not what I want... I you use windows, take a look at MemPad. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the Best Wiki for a Self Hosted Home Lab?

  My personal help-file is literally over 9000 pages long, if printed. That is slightly unwieldy in a single text file. I want to keep things as simple as possible, make data-export/migration simple, and (Important!) be sure that the files can be read 30 years from now. So I use MemPad, a simple outliner that saves in a format that can be read by Notebook (or any other text editor) Extraction/export of... Source: about 2 years ago

• UPDATE: After reading 600+ of your comments, here is the updated list of open source Linux programs mostly for beginners (thus mostly gui).

  That looks interesting! The app that keeps me on windows is a small, .txt based, outliner - something that for some strange reason don't seem to exist in the 'nix-sphere. I have tried asking Linux forums for suggestions for a comparable program, but always get '[[REDACTED ]]off' answers... I keep literally thousands of outline files on removable media, and (for archival purposes) all needs to be followed by the... Source: over 2 years ago

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 / 2 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