Day One 2 available on Thursday

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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 2, 2016 at 11:31 PM

This is a notice for Day One fans. According to the developer’s blog, version 2 will be out on Thursday. Here’s what they say about it:

[begin quote]
Day One 2 will be a new app on Mac and iOS with two headlining features: multiple journals and multiple photos per entry. It will remain a paid app and be priced at $9.99 for iOS and $39.99 for Mac. We will provide a 50% discount to both apps during the first week of its debut. Day One Classic (v1) will continue to be maintained as needed and is compatible with Day One 2 when using Day One Sync. [end quote]

Here’s a link to the post for full details: http://dayoneapp.com/2016/01/introducing-day-one-2/

So the two significant things for me are the ability to have multiple journals (good) and the fact that you must use their sync service (maybe good, maybe bad). If the latter works fine, that’s not a big deal, except that there seems to be an ever splintering of my personal information in various cloud locations: Evernote, WebBrain, iCloud, Dropbox, Asana, and soon Day One.

Anyway, since the 50% sale is for a limited time, I wanted to alert any other Day One users to be on the lookout for the new version.

Steve Z.

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Feb 3, 2016 at 12:22 AM

So…if I’m happy with using Dropbox and, in fact, need it to sync with Journaley on Windows, I should *not* give the developer more money. Got it.

Posted by Jan S.
Feb 3, 2016 at 06:06 AM

40$ for a minor patch, I’m not convinced.

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Feb 3, 2016 at 09:35 AM

faustisch wrote:
40$ for a minor patch, I’m not convinced.

In fairness, Apple, for some reason, doesn’t allow upgrade pricing in the app store, so I assume that’s why it’ll be $5 and $20 for the first week. Not sure even those prices are really worth it for what’s being offered, though.

Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 3, 2016 at 11:47 AM

Thanks for the update Steve.

I was wondering why the App Store was calling the existing app “Day One Classic”. The blog entry also has “Classic ... will continue to be maintained as needed”, which probably means “good luck”.

I like Day One, don’t use it all that much, glad to have the little journal I made, would never use the social features. So Day One 2 (an ironic name) is probably an inevitable purchase.

Once more onto the upgrade treadmill. As each upgrade season comes and goes the ratio of marginal utility to marginal cost for the aggregate of all the newish things that I purchase has never been greater than 1.0 and is drifting downward well below 0.5. The marginal cost developers are looking for with their upgrade fees is usually not providing an offsetting amount of marginal joy.

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