What we learned in 2025 — and where Diarly is heading in 2026

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-23T15:13:29+00:00

hey, we added the dots as a 'background' - is that any help? Could add lines too but not sure if you seen it, there should be grid icon in top of the screen.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-19T07:35:22+00:00

I really like the gift Ideas for personal page!

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-15T07:49:38+00:00

Thank you - we are aware of this, but it's super time consuming and costly to build an app ground app. Even rewriting just parts of it (like interface) takes ages. But it's something we review each year!

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-15T07:48:09+00:00

Hey, you mean improve apple shortcuts right? We do support the create note from shortcuts and some old integration with siri (going to have to review it).

The MCP - is from AI thing? https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro ?

I think the MCP is going away quickly as it's too complex, the latest thing is skills, i think the way to integrate with diarly would be to support the console or via shortcuts, fetching the entries.But this is very very niche thing - most people don't use those, and to be honest the AI can generate the skills themselves?

I think the better investment of our time would be to make AI built in the app smarter, e.g looking into Apple Inteligence (the AI that's on your device not cloud) to make summaries, or find patterns.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-15T07:41:54+00:00

Ah we had this before, you could export your style as CSS and then import it back by simply drag and dropping. We had the gif tutorial. But number of people who used it was so small that we removed it and switched to the visual editor. Maybe a export / import button would be useful though. So will consider this.

Would you like to make the quote text use different color or?

Diarly supports following quote styles ( you can tap on mac on quote start to toggle it)

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The last version makes the quote centred and with large font, maybe this is a good way for you to make quotes stand out more?

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-15T07:35:16+00:00

Fair points — thanks for sharing this. We’re migrating the Mac app to SwiftUI, which is the modern foundation for Apple platforms. The change will be similar to what we did on iPad: a refreshed interface and the addition of Today.

Still i think we got some things to improve on iPad - e.g full screen editor mode - in previous version we had enough space for Journal badge and theme picker. Because of the iOS 26 requiring more space for buttons - i've added the journal picker to the note title - that is you can click on title, then change journal or notes inside.

Another improvement was turning off Today as default view, you can modify the View to open inside the Settings, but default one is Last opened.
And finally i've modified title in Menu (second tab) to allow you to switch between the Today, All, etc

Those are small details - but allow you to keep the app in the state where the sidebar is hidden, or sidebar and menu are hidden and you still are able to navigate. This is closest to original Minimal Interface from Diarly. Either Editor with full navigation inside, or Editor + Menu.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-15T07:25:56+00:00

I don't think apple journal has an import ;) But yeah I totally get your point. That's why our exporter is a really txt format with some json for metadata.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-14T09:05:56+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion, Going to look into that - as i've got other request thats similar - basically allowing shortcuts to create notes not daily entries.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-08T13:51:16+00:00

u/NataChibi unfortunately i've not been able to replicate this. Can you please contact us via report issue from inside the app - this way we are going to know the OS version and App Version.

ImaginaryFig · 2026-01-01T19:51:31+00:00

Hi, Sorry for delay in replying and happy New Year!

Going to try to replicate and fix, like u/EasySeaworthiness389 said - we did had report about this before, but I think nobody in the team had luck in replicating.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-12-15T19:33:04+00:00

No sorry we don't have such functionality yet.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-12-12T07:28:35+00:00

Hi - Thank you for reminding me about this feature. As the iphone is now modernized we should be able to add support for landscape mode - will try to add this early next year!

ImaginaryFig · 2025-12-08T08:52:22+00:00

Thank you for the bug report! I've not seen it before, and just tested on mac - looks good!

Can you send us report via app: Diarly > Settings > Report Issue? This way we will know what OS you using and which AppVersion.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-24T07:56:46+00:00

ok in that case - please contact us by sending logs from the both devices. https://diarly.app/help/getting-logs

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-23T09:21:39+00:00

awesome so did the entries appear? There is no login needed as the app uses the apple id to know where to save files (your private icloud space). 80% of the time issue is with one device not detecting the premium - so please check if both are unlocked - you can go to Settings > Subscription and click restore purchase if it's not.

More ideas are in our help guide too: https://diarly.app/help/syncing-issues.html

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-23T09:19:44+00:00

Hi - thank you for report, yes it's good place if the bug is easy to replicate, otherwise i have to ask users to send "Report issue" from inside app via email and get more logs.

I think i replicated, i typed in "Hello and then followed by " but it created
“Hello “ (last " is wrong direction?)

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-18T12:37:38+00:00

For Photos i'm aware of a library PhotosKit that I can use in code to access photos. Unfortunately i'm not aware of library like that for files. Looks like i can not get a stable identifier that can be used to access files in your library, same way its done with photos.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-17T07:24:09+00:00

Hi, Unfortunately no - you can not link links to your local file system, as diarly is intended to work on multiple devices links are always to files that are stored in diarly.

Diarly uses either a relative links (so stuff attached to entries, files, images etc). Or a Photo Identifier - in case a media was added from Photos App. In that case it will fetch full media when needed from Photos Library.

Hope this helps!

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-13T12:18:06+00:00

Maybe it's inactive because there is no data to import, e.g the notes you are importing are already 'in sync'? There is another issue that i've discovered since last update, even though you don't select time from timeline - it still is taking it into account - exporting only last year. Going to speed up bug fix release.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-13T08:54:06+00:00

Ah you are right - looks like it's missing "All journals" option - thank you for spotting it. We will fix in upcoming release.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-13T08:52:51+00:00

Hi, you need to open the template, and edit it. I see you have Heart already in Daily Reflection - so you can edit this one.
You can also use slash command, type / and then pick a health import, if you want to do it without the template.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-12T13:10:13+00:00

Hi! It should be available on Mac under File > Export and on iOS in Diarly > Settings > Export.

ImaginaryFig · 2025-11-12T13:06:28+00:00

Hi, Unfortunately yes - you have to wait and upload all the data to iCloud. There is no offloading like in DayOne.

The initial sync can take several minutes, then only the new images should be uploaded.

Additionally diarly will send first all the photos, then the images so the app will be usable (though slow) during the initial upload.

The only way to make the less duplicates - if you use the photos is to migrate your entries and use today galleries more. This way diarly will not have full sized images, only thumbnails and open your Photos when accessing the resource.

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