Anyone else using DayOne and Micro.blog? Do you keep them separate? Combine them somehow? What’s your workflow?

@AlexKucera I often open something like iA Writer to write a long post and get to the end and decide… this one shouldn’t be published, it’s just for me and drop it in Day One. Or sometimes, especially when traveling, I’ll write in Day One and decide to grab a subset and post it on my blog.

My favorite use of Day One is restaurant tracking when traveling. Take a picture of your food, then you can put that photo in Day One whenever, the post will be set to when the picture was taken and where. I have city maps of restaurants with photos of what I ate which really is great for recommending places to others or returning to favorites.

@AlexKucera I use both, and keep them separate.

DayOne is my life log/private digital journal. I don't do a lot of writing in there because I use a notebook for daily journaling. But I drop photos from each day in, document little things that happen, and sometimes add typed entries or voice notes. I love the location tracking with the addition of my photos and notes. It creates a pretty comprehensive view of what each day has been. But that's for my own use/memory-keeping, not for public sharing, though like @jsonbecker I will at times pull stuff from a Day One entry and post it.

@jsonbecker nice. Thanks for sharing. I might do something similar.

@Annie I am terrible at journaling. I always want to, but usually don’t make it more than a week.

@spgreenhalgh @Annie @jsonbecker thanks for your suggestions guys. I guess I need to figure out what I want really. I do like the idea of writing a journal and I do like the idea of me writing. But the reality of the past 44 years speaks otherwise. But I do fall into the „I want to write more“ mode every couple of years.

@AlexKucera one thing that helped me was turning on some stuff like the DayOne widget etc-- it has a nice on this day photo feature etc and some of those things + pulling in my Instagram archive at some point years ago basically pushed me to open the app more often. Once it's open, writing at least occasionally becomes much easier. Of course, I happen to right now be using DayOne less than I have in years... but I've learned not to be annoyed by such things. It comes in waves.