The Day One Podcast

The Day One Podcast returns with an insightful conversation with founder Paul Mayne, who shares his vision of Day One as a lifetime companion for preserving life's meaningful moments.

In this episode, Paul reflects on Day One's journey—from its early days as an Apple-only app to a trusted, multi-platform tool for millions. He discusses recent updates and behind-the-scenes improvements to ensure seamless performance and security, along with exciting plans to enhance journaling with guided features and carefully considered AI tools.

Join us as Paul shares what's ahead for Day One, what journaling means to him personally, and his hopes for Day One as a lifetime tool for meaningful reflection.

After a three-year hiatus, the Day One podcast is back with a fresh format and a renewed focus on the power of journaling. In each episode, we'll invite experts and everyday journalers to share their insights into the ways journaling helps us remember and reflect.

Here at Day One, we're on a mission to help people everywhere keep a journal and discover the many benefits of taking time to reflect and capture life's moments. So, whether you're new to journaling or have been at it for years, we hope this podcast will bring you inspiration ideas and some practical tips to enhance your own journaling practice.

We'll also cover the latest updates from the Day One team, including new features, release notes, and a few tips for getting the most from your Day One journal.

Visit dayoneapp.com/podcast for more info.

Hello! Thanks for listening to our episode today! I wanted to recap some of the main highlights for Day One this year and give a small roadmap update.

10 Questions to Capture the Year in Your Journal

Here are the links to help articles for items mentioned in today's episode.

- Entry Merging

- Timeline Sort Order

- All-day Entries

- Pinned Entries

- Concealed Journals

- Slash Commands

- Backup and Sync options

Big news for Day One! Day One is being acquired by Automattic. This is incredibly exciting news. Today, Founder and CEO Paul Mayne discusses this new opportunity and what it means for the future of Day One!

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Greetings! Here's a brand-new ep for the Day One podcast. We are talking about 6.0 and 6.1 updates for iOS and macOS. Roadmap update for Android. And then we spend some time talking with Dylan from Oregon about shortcuts he has built to help his children build journaling habits (shortcut links below). You can find his post on Reddit here. Some require additional 3rd party services.

The first Shortcut just randomly chooses from the 3 Routes I've created so far. This is the one the kids tap to start journaling each night - Kids Journal Launcher

Kids Journal Route 1

Kids Journal Route 2

Kids Journal Route 3

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Happy December! Adam has some updates to talk about for Android, Book Printing, and some new stuff coming to Day One.

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Widgets for iOS 14 and macOS 11 (Big Sur) are here! Adam talks briefly on the new widgets and a couple of roadmap items.

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Talking with Paul Mayne about the new Today view on iOS in version 5.0, coming soon to macOS. Highlighting the new options and how to use this feature. Paul also shares a little insight into what's next for the Day One team.

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Thanks for tuning in! Just a small update today. Cool updates coming to Activity Feed/Day View soon. The team is still working on book printing improvements and more.

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Today, Adam talks about the new writing prompt feature and has a wonderful conversation with Mike Meraz. Mike is in higher education administration and has been journaling for a long time. He is also a podcaster! We talk about some of the things he journals, the features he finds most helpful, and tips to help people get started with their journals.

Writing prompts: https://help.dayoneapp.com/en/articles/3750565-daily-writing-prompts

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