Improving Day One

Day One is a journalling app for iOS and OSX and is an great app for keeping track of things during the day - be that photos or text. It’s a great app and I’ve been using it, almost as long as I’ve been using a Mac. I love the fact that I can view and add enteries on all my iOS devices and my Mac and that the data storage format is open (it’s all XML files).

However, whilst it’s a great tool and it’s under active development, I feel that perhaps sometimes it would be nice to auto add some information. This is where Slogger comes in - it adds the ability to add information from Twitter, Blogs, RSS feeds and other apps. It’s a great tool (once you get it working with Ruby).

Slogger

Slogger is a series of Ruby script that downloads and parses data and creates Day One posts. I use a Keyboard Mastro shortcut to auto run the script and create the files which I type at the end of my daily writing (this is for Mac only, so no luck if I’m stuck with only my iPad).

Slogger Keyboard Maestro Macro

This runs Slogger and creates the enteries. I currently have it set up to log my tweets for the day, any enteries I make on my blog and my Last.fm feed.

There are some problems though - I can’t seem to get the Github plugins working for whatever reason (which is a pain as I want to log commits I make on my thesis), the Last.fm logger doesn’t seem to log in regards to the actual time I listened to the songs (it’s all over the place!). However, it’s a nice piece of software and I’ll be keeping my eye on it to see how it develops.