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Slightly OT: I built myself a journaling app that sends one email every day to remind me to write about that day; I respond to that email and the response gets stored in a db as an entry for that day.

The system doesn't try to be clever in any way, it just sends and receives emails; it's proven quite effective. It's been running for about two years now and there are only a couple of days missing, if that. It's very interesting to be able to go back to any day in the past and know what happened, or what I was thinking about, that exact day.

The system can also be set up to handle different journals at different intervals; it helped me write a novel last year.

I'm the only user and it lacks many features to be called an actual product; but sometimes I wonder if others would find it useful.

parent bambax 5 years ago

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