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Day One 2 available on Thursday
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 4, 2016 at 08:53 PM
I got mine right away this morning. Perhaps there’s a surge of orders coming through.
MadaboutDana wrote:
>However, I still haven’t received my e-mail explaining how to join their
>Day One sync service, although I registered for it several hours ago.
>That will amuse many of you, no doubt!
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 5, 2016 at 10:25 AM
Yup, tried again yesterday afternoon, all went very smoothly. Just one of those little glitches.
Posted by Hugh
Feb 5, 2016 at 01:55 PM
A helpful review on Steve Z.‘s site: https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com. Thanks, Steve.
Posted by Dave M
Feb 6, 2016 at 11:38 AM
I kvetched a little when this was announced.
I love day one. It’s a great little cubby hole to log what I’m doing. But what I was underwhelmed with was where the updates had happened. Devs Gotta eat, and $25 every few years to keep the app active and managed is a pretty low ticket price.
Most of my use of day one is as s database - I barely pull the application up. I send data in using Launchbar to keep a log of activities when I’m working at my Mac, which is stupidly convenient and frictionless. I have slogger feeding in my task, bookmarking, foursquare, Twitter and online activities. I use Elizabeth to feed in my movements and maps from the Moves application. Every now and again, I need to launch Day One to look something up, so mostly I’m using search and filters in it.
Aesthetically, it’s much nicer. But there seems to be an emphasis on images and photographs now - maybe this is what looks good in the App Store, but now I’m several thousand entries in, my nimble text diary is now touching hundreds of megs, and I fear the weight of it will push me back into pure text and org mode, and needing to re-establish all the lovely functionality I’d slowly accrued.
My biggest problems were two-fold. The first was more of a hiccup than a deal-breaker - having to update all the 3rd party systems I used to feed day one. Brett Terpstra posted a fix for slogger to make it work with D12, which was a trivial configuration change. However - Launchbar has integrated day one usage, which fails, so it’s now a matter of when Objective Development issue an update. Elizabeth, the Moves importer, hasn’t been updated for a year, so it’s some node.js engineering work or dirty patching and symbolic linking. Overall, though - hiccups, nothing that fundamentally breaks things, just a bit of unexpected work. (For less technically minded users, this may be a pain, but they’re also unlikely to be running node.js and Ruby scripts).
My real concern - and others have hinted at this - is having *another* sync service. I already have iCloud and Dropbox. Now there’s *another* service in forced to use, and only for Day One. And on one level - so what? It’s free, and it’s just another username and password to remember.
But at another level, there are legal and jurisdictional issues. Suddenly, if I want to synchronise my diary, I have no idea what legal jurisdictions it’s exposed to. Is it going through servers in the US, and exposing my data to US law? This isn’t mentioned anywhere. Will the pricing change in future? We’ve just seen the Numerous app shit down from lack of revenue - is this the fate of Day One if there isn’t sufficient enough a user base? Why can’t I use *my own* servers and infrastructure to manage this sync?
I guess these are weird edge-case questions you start asking as you become older and curmudgeonly. I just find it very odd that the thing that’s come about from upgrading my diary software is why, suddenly, my diary is subject to US law - in all likelihood. But I don’t know, for sure - such is the nature of the cloud - but at least under iCloud and Dropbox sync, these were issues that had much more primacy and visibility.
And like the response to my tweet at the announcement - “you don’t have to upgrade”. And if Apple never update their software or OS again, they’re absolutely right.
I feel like this has taken a slightly ranty turn. I love day one, but it’s operating in an increasingly complex landscape, partly driven by user expectation - something I am guilty of, and I don’t have answers for.