Love it!
I use this every day for many memories & just general information. Can search for info later and it comes in handy. ☺️
Could be perfect but for two things
Decent diary apps are hard to come by. Many charge large subscritions but not an awful lot, while most of the free ones are too basic or full of ads. This ticks most of the boxes for me: very reasonable subscription, mobile apps and web so you can use it on all your devices, and you control the data - not the app developer or cloud provider, plus a simple clear interface that allows you to add tags, location and photos. Its plain text only - no formatting, bold. italics etc but that is fine for me. There are two big problems for me though: One is search. I keep an electronic diary so I can find things again but this has only sinple word search. So if you want to find entries containing, say Christmas Tree, it will find Christmas tree but also Christmas, Tree, Christ, Chris etc etc. This makes it pretty useless in terms of ability to find things. You can add tags and search by them as well as by date but that only gets you so far. The other issue is that there appears to be no support or development. It rarely if ever goes wrong (once or twice its been briefly unavailable online) but if you have a problem/issue you are unlikely to get any response and the Facebook page is pretty barren. I’d happily pay more for a decent search and to get rid of the feeling that it might just disappear one day. In the meantime, take regular backups!
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Perfect Journal App
I love using Diaro. I find it easy, good looking and secure. I have the premium version and having the chance to open it across devices really helps and the backup is great as well. As improvements I would suggest the possibility to record audio entries as it would help for days when we don’t want to type, printing with different fonts (currently printing to PDF with a standard font), and to be able to choose where to backup it (Dropbox or google drive). As I already pay for google storage I should be able to use it to store all of my stuff.
Great app anyhow. I’m very satisfied
Great app anyhow. I’m very satisfied
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Great backbone but unfriendly user interface
It has great features. You can tag, store in folders, have multiple entries on same day. But There is something very imperfect about its layout - It doesn’t link up tags in a manner that ensures continuity. It destroys flow between days and months.
In summary, diaro checks all the boxes of desired features but the sum of the parts has much room for improvement. If renovated, it’ll likely be the best one around!
In summary, diaro checks all the boxes of desired features but the sum of the parts has much room for improvement. If renovated, it’ll likely be the best one around!
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2000 entries and going
As the title suggests, I’ve been keeping a daily diary for over 5 years and am up to about 2000 entries: Diaro has been perfect for me. Great tagging, ability to add photos, etc… couldn’t ask for more.
