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Day One gives you all the tools to create multimedia journals
JOURNALING IS A great way to clear your head, organize your thoughts, and can really benefit your mental health. If you don’t want to dust off your old paper diary, the Day One app for Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch can help you build a multimedia journal, or even multiple journals. You can include photos and text, and the app can tag your location too, mapping where you journal.
For a more authentic journaling experience on iPad, Day One will accept input from either an Apple Pencil or from a third–party device such as a Logitech Crayon. A free version is enough to get you started, but the Premium tier ($34.99/year via in–app purchase) offers cross–device syncing, support for unlimited photos/video and input via audio recording, among other additional features.
Day One is very intuitive to start using, but also offers plenty of features to explore and use as time goes on, and could be a great alternative to Apple’s Journal app, which will arrive later this year.
HOW TO Journal with Day One
You need to create an account. You can do that manually or simply sign in using your existing Apple ID. Various other options are presented the first time you use the app — for example, whether you wish to receive notifications.
Tap on the “+” sign at the bottom of the screen and that will open a new journal entry where you can start putting your thoughts down. Day One automatically records the date and time on which you create an entry.
It is not just text you can add. Tap on the photo option to add pictures from your Camera Roll that mean something to you. Day One uses metadata from your snap to record when and where it was taken in your journal.
You can import your entire Instagram account. Tap the gear icon to open Settings, scroll to Instagram, then tap Connect Instagram Account. Importing photos can take a while, but new ones are then automatically added.
There are different ways to see your journal entries. They are all accessible from the toolbar at the bottom. Calendar view is nice as you can see exactly what you added on which day, just like a traditional journal
