Guided daily prompts

AdamXweb

I am a new user to Diarium and am enjoying the experience so far.
A suggestion that may fall out of scope, however I do believe most users may find it helpful is to have interactive templates.

Imagine asking a set series of questions that would typically be a template, where the answers could be converted to tags, chained to a second question or fill in the blanks in a template.

e.g. a notification is received to start the daily reminder. Begins with: "How would you rate this day (1-5)" -> "5" -> "Great, what is an achievement from today" "e.g. to be added within template" -> "What is the biggest thing from today" -> "e.g to be added to a tag"

I could see many use/cases where this could help new users build a habit, or to remind to track certain information set up on different schedules.

timo

I think this is a bit too out of scope, but thanks for suggesting!
Have you tried the templates that are already built in to Diarium? They are not quite as interactive, but they kind can be used as what you described

AdamXweb

Would it be possible to add an option to increase the frequency of notifications to more than once per day?
It could be useful to have one template for the morning notification, and another template at night.

timo

AdamXweb Would it be possible to add an option to increase the frequency of notifications to more than once per day?

It's currently not possible.
You want an option to register a time to a template and then the app sends a notification on that time every day? And when the user clicks it, the template is appended to todays entry and the user can fill it out?

AdamXweb

timo
Correct, for example a nightly notification sent could append 'template A' and in the morning 'template b'

timo

That's a really interesting idea. There would be one technical problem I would face: If I wanted to save the time for each template in the database, this would require a database migration, which can be a bit of a problematic step because apps that are not on the same database version cannot sync. All users would have to update to the latest app version before able to sync again. At some point I will have to do this anyways, so I will note this done.
Alternatively, the setting could be store locally, but then the user would have to do this on each device, which is not obvious.

I'd have an additional question: Would you want to write all the stuff in one entry per day or would you want the app to create a separate entry for each template/notification?

AdamXweb

timo
Personally, i'd create two entries if they were based on different topics and different templates.

I could see others may want a single entry per day that they'd continue to edit at the end of the day, but that wouldn't be my own use case.

Blair

I was just talking to a few friends about Diarium and one who has been using it on my recommendation for awhile had mentioned the only thing lacking is journal prompts. Then I found this.

I wonder if JournalMonkey https://journalmonkey.com/ or Journal Prompt Generator http://www.journalpromptgenerator.com/# or something like it might have an API that could be called. Just a thought...

timo

One challenge with daily prompts is that for them to be useful, there shouldn't just be 3 or 4 of them, but maybe 10? (I never used something like this so this is just a guess). Not only am I lacking creativity to make up 10 prompts that make sense, but it would also significantly increase the workload of the voluntary translators of the app.
Diarium already has a "template" feature with 3 predefined templates (which you can edit or create new custom ones) that already have some kind of daily prompts, I know that for some users this is already enough.
It also seems like the services you linked do not have some API that developers could use