Day One wants you to chat with AI
Aleem Shaun (via) has been a longtime Day One journaler.
I’ve used Day One for more than a decade. It was an excellent journalling app. Private, minimal, easy to use, with excellent features such as geolocation, weather, ‘On this Day’, and book printing. Features that got out of the way and either worked quietly in the background or appeared only when you summoned them. That’s changed.
He’s been getting frustrated with Day One forcing the AI chat feature down his throat without a way to remove it. As he looks for alternatives:
The features I will most miss are On This Day and book printing. I can replicate On This Day with shortcuts and widgets. I’ve also been using Flohgro’s excellent On This Day Rewind App. Book printing, which I use to curate personal memories for my kids, will be a bigger pain point and harder to replace. My research hasn’t turned up much. I’ve looked at Blurb, Momento and others. None fully replicate what Day One does natively.
