New Diarium Users

redeyeshev

tomcubb I agree about ease and organisation. I feel my journal is much more organised since using Diarium. I used to enjoy journaling with TheJournal and Rednotebook, but I always found my posts quite disorganised. With multiple entries and how well Diarium handles photos, journaling is a lot of fun now and so much more rewarding.

I've got a Thoreau collection audiobook, but it's still in my 'to listen to' queue. I look forward to getting some inspiration.

tomcubb

redeyeshev This is my favorite Thoreau collection of journal entries:
https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Thoreau-1837-1861-Review-Classics/dp/159017321X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3RA5L05KXMDMK&keywords=thoreau+journal&qid=1674149908&sprefix=thoreau+journal%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-3

3liLuc

Made the switch from DayOne today. I've been using that app for almost a decade, but the last few years it's become so bloated with new features, and unfixed bugs to go along with them, it's become almost unusable.
But the importing from DayOne to Diarium was painless and worked very well. Had more then 600 entries that dated back to the 1980s (I'd been using DayOne to archive old written journals, old letters to and from family and friends, even old school work from elementary school I still had).

Diarium has all the features to keep my personal archiving going and in a beautifully polished interface. It is certainly leaving the competition behind.

redeyeshev

3liLuc Glad your import was a smooth process. Yes, Diarium is a very lean app. Timo seems keen not to add anything unnecessary and I think that's really important. I used TheJournal years ago and there was so much going on there that it felt cluttered and overwhelming.

3liLuc written journals, old letters to and from family and friends, even old school work from elementary school I still had

I do the same. I was clearing out an old Gmail account recently and popped a load of family emails from years ago into Diarium.

redeyeshev

tomcubb This is my favorite Thoreau collection of journal entries:
https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Thoreau-1837-1861-Review-Classics/dp/159017321X/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3RA5L05KXMDMK&keywords=thoreau+journal&qid=1674149908&sprefix=thoreau+journal%2Caps%2C161&sr=8-3

Thanks Tom. I downloaded the sample and within a few pages I could tell I was going to get a lot out of it so bought the full Kindle book. Very inspiring!

BillRigby

redeyeshev How did you import your Gmail emails, and will this work from outlook?

SamanthaLauer

Hello I'm Samantha a 7th grader.

redeyeshev

SamanthaLauer Hi Samantha. Welcome to the forum. Hope you're getting a lot out of using Diarium. I wish I had kept a diary more regularly when I was at school. I kept one for a year in 9th grade, but the entries were very short because I used a small week-to-page diary.

Sentu

Hi, my name is ben and I am not new to journalling, but I am not doing it regularly. Maybe diarium can change that, but that's actually not my main goal.

What I am looking for, is a cojournalling app. Diarium just happens to be beautiful, to have many appealing integrations and automations, and seems like a well thought-through product of the 21st century. Co-journalling: Diarium, like every other journal app, just lacks the ability to easily write into the same journal entry with neither of the writers to be more privileged than the other. In fact, no developer in the world seems to be interested in that feature. 😅

Writing this feature request is why I signed up to this forum, so I'll go right at it, now.

hoovy

Hi, my name is Joel. I've been journaling almost daily for 15 years now ( I did skip a year or two)
I started out using pen and paper and used varios services & apps until I setteled on Dirium.
I purchased Diarium in 2017 and have been using it daily since.
Over the years, I've had some small issues here and there and Timo Partl was extremely quick at responding and helping me out!
my database is 619 MB I have 3,355 entries and 3,00 photos.
I don't plan on stopping anytime soon!

redeyeshev

hoovy Hey Joel. Wow 15 years is a good run! I'm a bit like you - starting on paper, then going through various apps until I discovered Diarium - I only wish I'd discovered it in 2017!

Lucas

hoovy Wow that is insane! Do you have any tips for new users? I have been using notebooks for a long time and I finally went digital.

Toshoe

Sconi1 I went ahead and took the plunge from Evernote to Diarium, best decision ever. Evernote just became way to bloated as you've stated.

Toshoe

Hi from the desert region of South Africa, the Northern Cape. Made my 1st Diarium entry on 2022-08-27, after I started looking for an alternative to Evernote.

Very happy so far. Synching flawlessly between 2 computers & a cellphone, had a bit of a hassle finding a Paid/Pro App for Huawei, but stumbled upon GumRoad and found it there.

Just looking for a reminder feature for future appointments, but its not a deal breaker.

Cheers

redeyeshev

Toshoe Hi Toshoe! So you were using Evernote as a journal? Hope you're enjoying Diarium.

AttilaTheHun

Hi,
New Diarium user, joined today 27th January 2023. First time owning a Pro diary, previously used my Calendar in Android phone and synced to Windows. Once I learn how to use this app (a user guide would be helpful), I expect to use it daily. This is out of necessity as I recently developed an "active" Crohn's disease, not pleasant. I now need to record daily diets, activities, medications and stress.

I will be a regular watcher of this Forum to learn to get the most out of this app.

redeyeshev

AttilaTheHun Welcome! I can imagine Diarium would work really well for recording daily stats. Have you looked at using the tracker tags function? It might be useful for you.

I find Diarium really intuitive, but a lot of people have said they would like a user guide. If you've got any usage questions, just post them on the forum.

EAPTCB

I've been keeping a journal on and off since 2012.
A few years ago I decided not to leave any 'empty' days in my journal and I try to wrtie something every day, even if its really boring stuff like, everyday chores - just something so as not to leave a blank day. I have kept this up so far and it's become a habit now so I can't end my day without a journal entry.

Looking back on my past entries, I hate seeing those days where I didn't write anything, I was thinking of ways to "fill in the blanks" and since I can not remember what happened on those missing days, I decided to go to a website where you can see "what happened on this day" and I choose something of interest or relevent to me and use that information!

I have tried the "photo a day" thing too but most of the time I had missed (or forgot) the opportunity of taking meaningful photos and ended up just taking selfies in the evening! This didn't really capture the days events and looking back on those photos the only memories I get to relive from those is knowing if it was a good day or a bad day by how big my frown was 😂

Does anyone else have any suggestions on how to fill in past empty entries?

redeyeshev

EAPTCB I too hate seeing empty entries. I'm pretty good at taking photos each day, though it's a habit developed over several years. I agree, it's very hard to remember to take a photo of something. I often take a photo whenever I'm waiting somewhere, just to capture where I was. Surprisingly, it does help me remember the day's events and if I don't have anything better for that day, it works.

Maybe you can look back over sent or received emails, texts, or Whatsapp messages? I was going through my Gmail account clearing out old messages, and found a bunch of emails from a decade ago when my journaling was more sporadic. They helped me flesh out those years.

EAPTCB

redeyeshev Maybe you can look back over sent or received emails, texts, or Whatsapp messages? I was going through my Gmail account clearing out old messages, and found a bunch of emails from a decade ago when my journaling was more sporadic. They helped me flesh out those years.

what a great idea, thanks 🙂

AndrewSleight

Well, I am new to journalling an also new to retirement!

I investigated what tool my wife and I could use to document where we go an what we do in a shared platform, from both our phones and PC's and of course Diarium was perfect.

Just setting up and learing how to use it, first official day of retirement in February 6th, 🙂

cheers

Andrew

redeyeshev

AndrewSleight Welcome Andrew, and congratulations on retirement.

Diarium should be perfect for your needs. It's great to look back over when you've got a lot of entries - especially with the attachments view if you have a lot of photos.

I'm assuming you'll add photos from your phone. Diarium will take the GPS location info from your photo and add it to the entry. Then you can look back over entries in the map view as well.

Happy journaling and if you have any usage questions, don't hesitate to post them on the forum.

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