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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 14, 2011 at 04:21 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Well, somebody would eventually make a product for this, no?
>
>http://idonethis.com/
>
Has anyone here tried this? There is very little info on the website itself, which makes me a bit uneasy about handing over all my personal info to three guys with a website.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM
Actually, sounds like you might enjoy Red Notebook (which has progressed vastly since I last took a look at it, about 18 months ago). You’ll find it on http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/
‘S not available on Android, as far as I know, but it is cross-platform!
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 15, 2011 at 07:08 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>>http://idonethis.com/
>>
>Has anyone here tried this? There is very
>little info on the website itself, which makes me a bit uneasy about handing over all my
>personal info to three guys with a website.
This is an issue with many ‘original’ cloud services. Personally, I now mostly go for (a) big guys like Google, (b) services that have been around for some time, (c) services that allow me to copy my data locally. A prerequisite is that they allow me to do something I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.
I wouldn’t say that Idonethis.com qualifies for that last prerequisite. The service can be broken down to (a) the daily reminder and (b) messages to yourself accessible via the date. I’m sure that these can be provided otherwise.
I just pointed out Idonethis.com because it looked as if they had been watching this forum :-) Then again, ideas are ‘in the air’.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Nov 15, 2011 at 02:42 PM
I suspect the messages to oneself can be easily set up without using an outside program, and with saving to Google or Dropbox. I also am leary of all the various cloud services because I know, given past experience, at least some of the players are going to be cutting corners, and that one day someone will disappear, and their cloud will go with them. Not that I’m cynical…but….
Daly
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>>http://idonethis.com/
>>>
>>Has anyone here tried this? There
>is very
>>little info on the website itself, which makes me a bit uneasy about handing
>over all my
>>personal info to three guys with a website.
>
>This is an issue with many
>‘original’ cloud services. Personally, I now mostly go for (a) big guys like Google,
>(b) services that have been around for some time, (c) services that allow me to copy my
>data locally. A prerequisite is that they allow me to do something I wouldn’t be able to
>do otherwise.
>
>I wouldn’t say that Idonethis.com qualifies for that last
>prerequisite. The service can be broken down to (a) the daily reminder and (b)
>messages to yourself accessible via the date. I’m sure that these can be provided
>otherwise.
>
>I just pointed out Idonethis.com because it looked as if they had been
>watching this forum :-) Then again, ideas are ‘in the air’.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 3, 2012 at 01:45 AM
Dr Andus wrote:
>Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>>Well, somebody would eventually make a product for
>this, no?
>>
>>http://idonethis.com/
>>
>Has anyone here tried this? There is very
>little info on the website itself, which makes me a bit uneasy about handing over all my
>personal info to three guys with a website.
Although I was skeptical about this service initially, I gave it a try because I couldn’t be bothered to set up something similar by myself. I have to say it works like a charm. Every night a receive an email to a dedicated email address I had specially set up for IDoneThis, and then while in bed, I record the main things that I got done or had happened during the day, using my iPad. I’ve been using it for many months now without skipping a single day. I have never been this disciplined with my journal writing in my whole life.
My concern about confidentiality hasn’t gone away, but I managed to suppress it in exchange for the convenience and the disciplining effect.
They allow you to download all your data in a single text file, and a copy of each day’s record also gets saved in the Sent email folder, so as long as there is electricity and the internet, the data should be safe (from losing it at least).