I’ve plenty of goals for the Diary app. 

I use it for free journaling, something I do as a kind of meditation. It helps me being more aware, calm and grateful.

Often I also use it as a memories diary. I take rich notes on my activities and what was special and add a few pics. It’s nice to see the memories after a few weeks sitting there, beautiful. Makes me always feel happy.

I’ve used it also for taking general notes and tracking my mood. What’s nice about such a general tool is that it fits almost every need for day to day notes taking and tracking. That’s also the first step when we’re dealing with consistent personal growth!

There are still thinks I want to add and many users requested. Here’s a list of the features I’ll work next, the period in which I’ll work on them and a full backlog of requests.

Feel free to comment or post a new topic for discussion, I’ll listen :)

Oh, if you don’t have my diary app, make sure to  download it from the App Store or at least check it out!

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The app has reached a good level of maturity. There are still interesting features that have been proposed in the past few months and I’d like to explore. I’ll focus mainly on 2 of them:

* Refactoring the daily questions system. I’d like to make it much more engaging and propose a rich set of questions to start with. Users may be able to select which questions to answer or even get a random one from a category. 

* Make save button in edit page clearer to use

* Add some simple stats to your journal pages: time writing and words count

* Add limits to time or number of words. You can set those limits as you like. This is useful when you want to sandbox your free journaling habit.

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Here’s the full list of features you’ve proposed. I cannot guarantee I’ll add everything, but if enough people ask for a specific feature I’ll do my best to implement it!

* Introducing rich tracking and statistics. It would be nice to be able to track any kind of number, like calories intake, daily steps, hours of work. Then we can show them nicely in each diary page and in an aggregated statistics tab. 

* Sharing your diary, either a subset of days or the whole thing

* Exporting your diary in a readable and printable format

* Exploring services to get a gorgeous print of your diary

* Introducing GPS location and a map for exploring your daily records

* Adding voice notes. Potentially with text transcription

* Adding video memories

* Adding a visual memories explorer: a page where the app shows only the pics you’ve added and you can explore from there

* Add starring to specific days

* Add an advanced search function, to retrieve specific days based on some criteria

* Add a stock photos service, when you want to add a graphic asset to a page but you don’t have some local pic available

* Add quotes and motivation phrases. Also make the startup quote dynamic

* Add articles about mindfulness, self growth, compassion. In general anything that may improve our lifestyle

* Allow to write your diary on the web or a Mac / PC app

* Localize the app in your local language

* Sync the diary across devices

* Add support for hand-writing pages (including Apple Pencil)

I think that’s it. There’s plenty of stuff to work on, I love it! Please let me know if I forgot something and make sure to keep suggesting stuff.

Also, if you feel like writing a review on the App Store, that’s something I really appreciate