Every time I get close to ditching Day One in favor of journaling in text-files, I randomly run across a long-forgotten Day One entry with a photo and a paragraph about a moment or a day, and I’m reminded of how images + text add to each other.
@twelvety This was me a few months ago, I was ready to ditch it and erase my data but then I gont an "on this day" and it was a nice memory. So I have decided to keep it but dont interact much with it. I have set up and IFTTT action to log anything that I post here and only open it when I get an on this day reminder. The on this day feature can be both good or bad (at least for me) sometimes I get reminded of dark times, and I dont like thoise. :)
@Gabz Totally! On This Day is the killer feature for me and also keeps me in the platform. It's how I later run into the most fun things that seemed mundane at the time. It also makes me feel old, regularly. A fun thing to do is email little forgotten vignettes to friends years after they happened. People are always like, "What? I said that? I love that you keep such good notes!"
@twelvety I continue to use Day One along with my (org-mode) journal. Day One is great, as you said, with a combination of photos and text. Also, the "free" location, weather, etc. metadata is nice.