"We decided to charge upfront for Narrato Journal because we wanted to make it clear that we have a business model that doesn’t involve advertising or selling your data. You own all of your data and you have full control over it."<p>I like this. I wonder if they also include an option to export all data in a static HTML page with photos and videos in a directory sitting beside it. I'd love to have something like this.<p>I stopped sharing and posting on fb a few years ago, but still have a ton of valuable 'content' (photos and the comments on them). I'd use Narrato to purely 'download' and manage my data from fb in such a way that I own and control the data.<p>Overall, looks very promising. Best of luck folks!
<i>According to “Zuckerberg’s Law," the amount of information we share online doubles each year.</i><p>I stopped reading here and had to talk myself down from burning my computer, burying the ashes and salting the earth around it.
I really like the premise of this....building the journal from existing web services I use. However, I'm not sure I'd do the aggregation and additional typing on a mobile device. This is the type of thing I'd do on my laptop/desktop, likely much more efficiently. Capturing the initial ideas through Instagram or Twitter is great for my mobile device, but when it comes down to flushing out that inspiration into some private thoughts....I'd prefer using my laptop with a keyboard.<p>Also, any journaling app that stores my thoughts in the cloud is a non-starter for me.<p>One thing that would be cool, though, is some form of way to generate a PDF for printing (or something). To me it's not really a journal, until I can get it out of the digital medium.<p>BTW, our household has tried many of the different mobile journaling apps, and we've always gone back to a combination of typing in regular text editors, printing photo books from Instagram, and the age-old technique of hard-writing with a pen and notebook.
Obligatory will it come to android question? I've longed for a journal that will keep my interest and attention. Loved Oh Life...for the few months I used it, have tried many things, would be on this in a heartbeat if it hits my preferred platform.
Very nice, but wouldn't fit my use case since my concept of a journal is long-form text.<p>For that, I'd recommend something like 750 Words [1]. Journalling with stat tracking, achievements, reminders, etc.<p>[1] <a href="http://750words.com/" rel="nofollow">http://750words.com/</a>
This feels similar to 2010's Momento: <a href="http://www.momentoapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.momentoapp.com</a><p><i>"Connect Momento with popular web services to fill your diary with your online activity. In minutes Momento can build a record of each day, using the information and media you have shared online. A fast, effective and effortless way to record your life."</i><p>M.G. Siegler called it the perfect diary app: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/28/momento-app/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/28/momento-app/</a><p>Also discussed on HN, Remembary, described by its author here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069209" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069209</a>
I like the identification of the problem, not sure if this is a solution to it (for me). Since it is a journal, I imagine privacy is a concern so: Where are your servers and how do you plan on mitigating the wrong people from trying to read customers journals?
Btw seems like the service costs $5/year. Totally reasonable, but not mentioned until you get the app. Would also love it if I could view local temp in Fahrenheit. Otherwise very cool approach.
I'd like something like this, but I think I'd appreciate it more if all the data lived locally / in a place that I control. I don't think I'd share personal details in a journal on a service not under my control.
I've also been working on another journal app: <a href="https://thyself.io" rel="nofollow">https://thyself.io</a> (though it's not quiet ready for prime-time)<p>Like you said, building the habit is the hardest part, but this type of introspection really has it's benefits once you get going. I've been keeping a diary for years as just a word file in a truecrypt volume. Most of the apps I found in this market were trying to be more of a blogging/sharing platform rather than a private journal.
I've been using Facebook with all posts set to "Only Me" privacy as my journal -- this will probably will kill my karma, but this app seems like essentially a Path clone that you pay for, with a Day One business model to boot.<p>It's nice and pretty, but it's a crowded space that I fear there isn't enough new in this app to make headway.
So, before I give you access to all of my social networks, where's my guarantee you wont aggregate and sell it to someone else? I mean the sentiment is nice, but how will we know it holds if you're acquired?
Awesome, I will try it out. I'm using a private Facebook account + Timeline to achieve the same, but it's a total pain to maintain multiple Facebook accounts.
meh.<p>i prefer using old school moleskin and pencil to journal with. why does everything have to be about content aggregation? seems silly to duplicate the data in yet another application. nothing like making time to sit down and write ones thoughts down and exercise the brain in remembering the sequences of the past.