News & Updates — Day One

Bloom Built has recently announced that they are retiring Day One Classic. This comes at a time where Dropbox has also retired its API v1 - which is what Day One Classic used to sync its data with Dropbox. What this essentially means is that Life Journal can still sync your entries with the Day One Classic folder in Dropbox, but the Day One Classic app on your iOS device will be unable to sync those entries to the device. Similarly any entries you create on your iOS device using the Day One Classic app will no longer sync to...

Enhancements / Other Improvements Significant updates to drive OSX compatibility (Life Journal will be coming to Mac OSX shortly!) Used UTF-8 format when exporting data, saving and loading templates and loading prompts An updated Prompts file (UTF8 format) Minor UI improvements related to layout and presentation of information Performance improvements when loading the Location Viewer Optimizations to rendering entries selected in the Timeline view Multiple, minor enhancements to performance during initial loading of entries Minor, proactive code enhancements to improve robustness and reliability Bug Fixes Identified and fixed a bug that could cause the app to crash when closing the Location Viewer while...

New Features Text To Speech (Read Aloud): You can now have any entry read out loud using the computer's Text To Speech capability (Microsoft Speech API). The Play button appears next to the Distraction Free Writing Interface button. Text To Speech can be paused, resumed or stopped. Learn More... Auto Update Life Journal: Based on feedback, we have incorporated an auto-update capability in Life Journal. Whenever a new update is available, Life Journal will download it and prompt you to install it. It is important that you install this release to get future updates to Life Journal automatically. Learn More... New Templates: In this release, we are...

New Features Introduced buttons on the Settings screen to allow resetting the last sync date/time for Dropbox and Day One (to be used only when there is a mismatch in the synced entries) Enhancements / Other Improvements About form now has hints for everything and Instagram link is now active. Form now also defaults to first tab when opened. Swipe to delete functionality in List view now prompts to use the delete button (instead of deleting the entry) Enhanced the UI to now allow for scrolling of the list using the keyboard Minor improvements to the sync code for Dropbox and...

New Features Significant enhancement to Dropbox sync - we now run fully bi-directional Dropbox Sync in the background to minimize the impact to your writing. Streamlined and improved the Day One Classic sync process to capture a few fringe scenarios in our effort to continue to make the sync process bulletproof. Implemented a better exception logging functionality that will provide detailed information to us regarding any errors you get. This will help us tremendously in more quickly identifying and resolving any issues. Please view the contact us page to see how you can submit a support request if you get any errors. We now...