Take a few minutes and read through this fantastic series to get an idea of just how dynamic and flexible journaling with Day One can be. Not to mention how great it can be for your mental health.

1. Why To Journal & Why Day One
   • Journaling allows you to understand yourself better
   • Journaling allows other people to understand you better
   • Journaling reminds you of the little details of your life
   • Journaling makes you a better writer
   • Journaling is the best motivation you will ever have
2. What To Journal
   • Your Innermost Thoughts
   • Things That Impacted You: Events, Articles, Quotes, Ideas
   • Goals You Wish to Achieve
   • Your Impressions on Movies, Books, Music
   • Little Moments of Joy
   • Memorable Meals
   • Places You Visited
3. The Keystone Habit Of Journaling
   • How Habits Work
   • The Journaling Habit
   • A Keystone Habit
4. Journal Organization: Tags & Markdown
   • Tags (Reviews, Meals, Thoughts, Trips, Goals, Personal)
   • Markdown
5. Advanced Journaling: Automation & Templates
   • Automation
   • Templates

This is a minor improvement as we’re working hard on a major update for Day One Mac with many fantastic upgrades and features.

The next update will include PDF Exporting, Printing, Location and Weather for Mac.

Enjoy tagging your entries and keep writing!

You can send the PDF directly to cloud services, email or even print directly to AirPrint compatible printers. You can also retrieve the PDF files in iTunes. We love sending our PDF exports to Apple’s iBooks app—the navigation and reading mode is the perfect way to browse the PDF copy of your journal.

With the export filter options you have the ability to only include specific tags. For example, you can export a PDF of all your “European Vacation” tagged entries. There’s also a easy to use date range filter to help you further refine your export.

This feature assures that these treasured entries are backed up and available to you in a format that you can save, share and store forever.

The 1.10 update (Release Notes | Download Here) also includes some great speed and sync improvements as well as 30 days of historical weather data. We’re on a mission to make Day One better and better. Thanks for supporting us.

Give us a rating review on the App Store if you find it useful. Thanks.

As we approach the two year anniversary of launching Day One, I’m excited to report that the success of Day One has allowed us to continue improving these apps for the foreseeable future. I cannot wait to roll out the many great features we’ve been working on that will enhance your memories. All while keeping a focus on the core concept of Day One, which is writing and recording your life in a simple and elegant way.

Big shout out to Ben Dolman, the lead dev for Day One and the core Mac app developer. We are lucky to have him on our team.

Thank you all for your continued support and enthusiasm for Day One. Thanks to Apple for creating these wonderful devices and platforms and the recognition for our efforts. It definitely lights a fire in us to go the extra mile.

Paul

The new features in 1.9 are Search and Tags, two items that have been a long time coming. It wasn’t due to lack of users requesting these items, we’ve got a fair share of those, rather we felt that improving the core functionality of sync, stability and ease of input needed to be better established first.

For detailed information on how these work, see these documentation / tips pages: Search Tips, Tagging Tips.

We worked hard to make entering tags an elegant task with autocompletion using Hashtags or quickly pulling down to type a tag into the top entry area, also accessible via the tags button int he Edit Bar. You can even add tags from the Timeline view by swiping an entry and tapping the Tags icon.

Search is fast and really intuitive. Finally we can tell our friends the last time we had lunch together or exactly when we took that vacation. This update really does tie the core concept of Day One Mobile together.

For the geeks out there like us, we are happy to add Footnotes support for MultiMarkdown. See a full list of features added in this update in the iOS 1.9 Release Notes.

Start tagging away!

Day One Journal has come a very long way. Using it every day now. itun.es/us/ESRiz.i

— Jack Dorsey (@jack) November 7, 2012

People have been creating digital journals for years, but Day One feels different. What’s the most important thing that contributes to its success?

I think the idea of micro-blogging or short status updates based on popular social media sites, Twitter and Facebook, allows users to easily grasp the concept of Day One. It’s capturing personal thoughts and ideas in a way people are already familiar with, without having to share these writings publicly. It’s focused, it’s designed in a way that’s clean and not overwhelming, and it’s easily accessible in a way that makes the idea and motivation of keeping a journal fun.

Read the rest: Day One journal creator Paul Mayne: ‘expressing things without filters is liberating’

This makes it really easy and elegant to place a hosted video inside your Day One entry. We are working on and planning many more media types in the next update, so look forward to that.

We’ve also added the ability to auto link @twitter usernames and support for the new iOS 6 and iPhone 5 with 4-inch vertical screen. See a detailed list of updates in the Release Notes.

Download: Day One 1.8.1 for iOS

There’s a lot more in store as we improve and work on the next major update, so stay tuned and keep on logging your life with Day One!

ps. If you enjoy the app, the best way to show appreciation is by leaving a rating in the app store. Thanks so much.

Download Day One Mac 1.7.1

• Temperature scale setting (defaults to Celsius outside of US)
• Fixed Menu Bar app issues
• Fixed multiple “Lost access” dialogs on 10.7.4
• Fixed issues with custom Dropbox folders
• Fixed issues with non-English Dropbox languages
• Fixed bug with keyboard shortcut

Sorry if you were affected by any of these issues.

I’d like to share some of the excellent reviews and coverage of Day One in the media:

The Verge, Day One: journal app nirvana in the Twitter age by Ellis Hamburger:

Day One is a private log of your thoughts, and the other miscellanea you find worth noting in your daily life. Thanks to a simple and always accessible new kind of micro-journaling in Day One, I’ve again realized the value in smelling the roses and writing down the little things that matter.

Shawn Blanc, Review: Day One:

If being able to add photos is Day One’s killer new feature, the icing on the cake is the automatic adding of location and weather data to your journal entries.

MacStories, Review: The New Day One by Federico Viticci:

Day One stands out because it’s not a tool, it’s a personal experience. I can tell you what Day One does, and I can write about the things I do with it. But I can’t tell you how you should use it.

Federico also shared this tweet:

And guess what? Most used app these days is Day One. That’s some serious life-changing software for me. Keeps me going.

LOKAN, Day One Update with Photos, Locations and Weather:

Belated Praise for Day One by Matt Alexander

In essence, Day One has provided an invaluable semblance of coherence to the disjointed digital wilderness in which my data — and, therefore, my experiences — reside.

Ben Dolman and I were invited to speak on an awesome new 5by5 podcast called Systematic hosted by Brett Terpstra. Listen to us talk about design, programming for Day One and other geeky stuff.

Systematic: Episode 4

Speaking of Terpstra, Brett followed up his nice giveaway of 10 sets of Day One promo codes with a really cool way to import your social feeds into Day One. See Slogger.