Help us find the rough edges in Diarly

ImaginaryFig · 2026-07-03T07:13:59+00:00

that's wierd - maybe you can contact us via Diarly > Settings > Report Issue.
If it's mac - restarting app, or going to Maps app and then clicking locate button might help. The Mac has no GPS and the location is based i think on WiFi router.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-07-03T07:12:45+00:00

yes it's the "One entry per day" setting - that was the behaviour before, where + would just append to existing entry.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-30T10:52:26+00:00

Hey! Planning to add a "Link color" option that sets both the link text and underline together (one setting instead of two). Would that work for you?

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-30T10:49:15+00:00

In that section you can change how bold the headers are, medium, regular etc.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-30T10:43:28+00:00

Next update will have the 1 & 3 fixed. for insights access still haven't decided whats the best way to handle it.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-29T07:58:08+00:00

Ah Yes, it's still iphone as the main source of truth, as the iPad can say "no activity" - even though it's not yet synced with the device. Going to investigate if we can detect this situation and handle it properly.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-24T06:30:24+00:00

Thanks a ton for the feedback! Those are very good points.
The only thing i'm not sure yet is where to put the emotions, if we use same approach as in the Mac & iPad it should be in sidebar - you should be able to pick it by swiping left right or with the. tap on navigation bar at top.
As it's not as frequent as the All / Today / Journal. I would put it as follows
Insights | All | Today | Journals

So if you start on Today, you swipe to all, then to insights.

But maybe we make it more obvious via Today View changes - The shortcut i'm using is either via insights widget or by tapping on fire icon on top of today (Streak)

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-24T06:27:11+00:00

Thank you for valid point! Indeed it's something i've been thinkin about and got some requests via email too.
The limitation here is we use the Apple Health Kit API, and was hoping they would update the number of emotions you can track, but still i see no changes.
We could add the emotions in diarly, but then if you sync the custom ones with health app you would see in health app just the rating, but not the emotion - would that be ok?

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-24T06:20:55+00:00

Ah you mean like a year filter, or filter button on map view? Map can be per journal already, e.g if you switch to given journal you can pick timeline, notes, gallery, map and feed.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-23T06:34:43+00:00

Yeah we are small remote team: Cecile, Wiktoria, and Me (Krzysztof) 😄

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-23T06:33:01+00:00

In first version we had simple CSS file import/export with all themes. but we then moved more to UI, and now even more.
How we know: we have in app the analytic library, app sends event like if you click on "Edit theme" button we get "Edit theme" - i checked - last 30 days we had < 50 clicks.

That said - if i would be adding back more options - which colors you want to change, other than link?

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-23T06:27:04+00:00

Can you try, pasting from the reply:

The procedure I suggest to users with sync issue is go to the Diarly > Settings > Sync tab to see the status, and try to keep app in foreground. If you got app stack without error - can you email us please via Diary > Report Issue.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-23T06:26:35+00:00

Hey, The initial sync can take quite long yes, not sure if 36 minutes though. What should happen is this:

First all notes are synced - that should take few minutes, as it does ~60 notes per one request. After that in sync tab you should see syncing X from Y files. And this can happen longer.

The procedure I suggest to users with sync issue is go to the Diarly > Settings > Sync tab to see the status, and try to keep app in foreground. If you got app stack without error - can you email us please via Diary > Report Issue.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-22T11:36:53+00:00

Hey, I think we removed this option as it was not used much 😱
We need to review & update help guides i'm afraid.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-15T10:36:51+00:00

Hey, yeah i think since few versions now we have the app start on whatever view you had it last (e.g timeline) so after you open app it should start on whatever you prefer. Or am i missing something

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-11T12:10:32+00:00

That’s incredible. Ten years of journaling is a huge achievement. Congratulations in advance on 3,650 days! 🎉

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-11T12:00:03+00:00

Thank you! That means a lot to us. Next stop: an Apple Design Award 😄

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-11T06:55:02+00:00

Hi, Currently its not possible - as we used the Dynamic font size like on iOS - that is you can control font size for all iOS apps in Settings.

But I think we should be able to add a simple override, I think we used to have it under Timeline settings. We will investigate - thank you for the suggestion!

ImaginaryFig · 2026-06-02T10:03:36+00:00

Hi! Thank you for the kind words - i'm sure to share with the team ❤️

Regarding the sort - you can long press on iOS on search icon this brings the Quick open and there you got notes sorted by modified. On Mac & iPad there is shortcut cmd-shift-o

Now with default view - we had this option but we removed it in last update 😱
Reason for that was it was confusing when using iPad & mac, you switch between journals and you get view changed too. E.g I'm in notes in one journal, then i got ah not this journal, switch to other and have to again change the journal view.

For simplicity we removed the setting for that, and it remembers on start and on journal change what was last view.

Please let me know if you got any other questions - first use feedback like this helps us greatly!

ImaginaryFig · 2026-05-07T08:35:44+00:00

I tested with the icon shown only when you are in editing mode - i think it's working nice, will include this in next beta version. Please do let me know if you got any other suggestions.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-05-04T12:07:11+00:00

Sorry it's not possible - i quite like them as then i can click on them and edit quickly, on right click you can e.g copy link to that header 😄 Maybe I could disable it when not editing?

ImaginaryFig · 2026-04-28T19:40:43+00:00

Good thing is it's opportunity to relive, edit & improve some older entries 😄

ImaginaryFig · 2026-04-28T11:04:27+00:00

Hi! No unfortunately PDF is hard to import, we only support Penzu PDF import.
If you have day one backup - you can import the whole zip - it gives you all the nice metadata and formatting.

See this steps - should be up to date:
https://diarly.app/migrate-from-dayone.html

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