Day One and microblogging manton.org
@manton It's interesting to read your preference. I journal in Day One but wouldn't want my entries published on the web. I do use IFTTT to import my Micro.blog posts into a Day One journal so I can review both public and private thoughts in one place. It feels like a kludge because Day One breaks my set up once to twice a year but it mostly works.
I have a periodic task that reminds me to export my Day One journals to my own storage. It seems to work well. Though I still feel anger over them dropping support for storing journal entries in iCloud.
@manton I’ve been thinking the same things about Day One: wonderful app, but I’d really like my journaling in a simple, open, persistent format (like plaintext with some metadata). I’m definitely watching this space. 🤓
@manton Would a private page be possible with hosted blogs? Maybe password protected? Then it could be used for journaling and no one could see it if you didn’t want them too
@manton I've yet to succeed in fulfilling my analogue journaling ambition but I'm determined to keep it away from digital at this point.
The feature sounds good, though I could see people running into difficulties with some of the unresolved issues in the post editor; markdown inconsistencies, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
@ronguest To be clear, I'm not sure I want my private journal entries on the web yet either. But one day, I do. Just dunno if that is after 10 or 20 years or longer.
@Zak Cool, thanks. I only vaguely remember how the Day One web publishing used to work. I just tested the Mac app's Export → HTML and it's pretty nice.
@brucegodin In theory, yes. I've been hesitant to add that to Micro.blog because calling something "private" is another level of responsibility. I'd want it to be as secure as possible in the case of our hackers getting hacked, etc.
@brucegodin Whoops... Obviously meant servers getting hacked. We do not employ any hackers. 🙂
@manton I use Day One and really like it because of the ease of integrating images and other media (plus the weather and other metadata).
I have a Keyboard Maestro macro that exports the entire Day One archive to JSON (which includes attachments) that I run weekly.
@manton I pretty much use DayOne as my second backup for Micro.blog. Micro.blog is my journal, and ifttt so anything I post here goes into DO.
@manton I actually moved off of Day One a few years ago and migrated all of the content to my site via micropub, with private entries. I now journal in Drafts, and publish to my site via micropub. I'd love to see a micropub client purpose built for journaling, or support added to Day One! Would be awesome if it were built on standards so I could use it for my journaling again :)
@frombrandon Hiya. In IFTTT connect to the Day One service. Then create an IFTTT applet using an RSS feed with your site as the FeedURL (e.g. frombrandon.net or whatever you use)as the Trigger and an Action of "create entry in Day One". This works well but Day One seems to insist on inserting a non-found PNG file as an image for posts that don't include at least one image. I haven't spent time to sort that part out.