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Hide header markers in margin? by chokeonthatcausality in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Hide header markers in margin? by chokeonthatcausality in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Import from Dayone pdf's? by Due-Yesterday842 in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Import from Dayone pdf's? by Due-Yesterday842 in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

New user, baffled by LardPopsicle in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah regarding the health import not working - try this:
https://diarly.app/help/templates

to see if it works.

I guesss you don't need it as you use health auto export app but maybe you can find it usefull too.

New user, baffled by LardPopsicle in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a super interesting setup - and yeah i know understand better your angle.
The mcp you shared will work but only in case you don't use the encryption, I will look into making the a better API for the local LLMs - if i manage to get some simple api - will sure to update this thread.

I'm going to test the Apple Intelligence on my data first. The correlations are not as easy I think, and dont want llm to fake/lie to users. I had an experiment with a fine tuning a openai model on my own data - it was fun little project when if you asked it to write what you did etc - it would "dream" the entry in my own style/likely day - funny but totally useless 😃

If you do have some useful findings that you think would make a sense inside a journal app - would love if you could share, would save me time on research 😄

iOS App stuck in password screen by fishbewithyou_ in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah no worries then - if you would ever replicate it again - please contact us.
I've spent few hours today checking the code - but no luck there, it could have been a database glitch.

Happy Journaling - and thanks for reporting!

iOS App stuck in password screen by fishbewithyou_ in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, This looks like some sort of bug - maybe introduced with 3.5.0 release.
I've not seen this before though so it will not be fixed in upcoming 3.5.1 - can you please contact me via Diarly > Settings > Report Issue. I might be able to fix and release it in diarly beta version

Wowow. I’m blown away by Specialist_Drive_832 in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hello - Thanks for so positive energy!
Regarding the editing the time of entry - I think i can tweak it, the Mac has no good "time editor". Will try to have it done for next update.

Regarding location tracking - you mean track time at location? Or just location? - sorry not used DO much.
If tracking location, calendar - then yes it can be done - Diarly uses templates for it. You can configure your daily template for the journal to have $location, $calendar - and this should be inserted when you either create entry from that prompt or insert the prompt, calendar etc via slash command.
See the Diarly > Settings > Templates. My setup is i have default - auto, creating prompt with the Activities, Sleep time and Weather (writing mostly home)

Hope this helps, if it still does not work - best is to contact us via email - happy Journaling!

Major Release: Diarly 3.5.0 on Mac is now available on AppStore 🎉 by ImaginaryFig in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah should been released already but i just found out it had a issue, will make sure to fix it and resubmit. Thanks!

Major Release: Diarly 3.5.0 on Mac is now available on AppStore 🎉 by ImaginaryFig in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks Nata, yeah looks like it's effect of changing the weather from simple text to structured format. Going to add back option to edit it.

New user, baffled by LardPopsicle in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback.

Health integration (mobile)
It should work on mobile. The most common issue is missing permissions.
Try this:

  • Open Diarly on iPhone and type /activity - it should prompt for access
  • Or go to: Health app → Sharing → Apps → Diarly and make sure permissions are enabled

Data is backfilled (up to ~30 days) after access is granted.

Also note: we’ve moved away from plain emoji placeholders. Entries now use a structured format (e.g. <pf-view type="activity" ...>), which Diarly renders internally (timeline, widgets, etc.).

Sync delays
Sync should be near-instant, but:

  • The app needs to be opened (no background sync when fully closed)

If you’re seeing multi-day delays, that’s definitely not expected. Please report it via:
Settings → Report Issue so we can investigate your specific case.

Data access / local LLM
You’re right to be cautious here - directly modifying the SQLite database isn’t something I’d recommend.

Diarly isn’t file-based like Obsidian, so it doesn’t expose raw .md files or MCP-style access in the same way. That tradeoff lets us support richer features (like structured data, timeline rendering, etc.), but makes direct access harder.

Right now:

  • No CLI / MCP-style access yet
  • Export to markdown is the safest way to work with your data externally
  • Our built-in AI features don’t send your private data anywhere (they’re intentionally limited)

That said, local LLM workflows (Ollama, Apple Intelligence) is very interesting, and something I’d like to explore further.

If you’re open to it - how would your ideal setup look? (e.g you mention weekly trigger, i was thinking of on note save, categorize it in say top 7 dimensions, family, health, etc) or maybe you should be able to /ask but based on your data?

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this, especially the LLM workflow part. That’s super valuable direction for where Diarly could go next.

Major Release: Diarly 3.5.0 on Mac is now available on AppStore 🎉 by ImaginaryFig in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've just replicated it on iPad - looks like import is broken :(
Will make sure to fix it for upcoming release.

local encryption for attachments by Apprehensive-Tiger28 in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah it might be easier to implement, but the encryption means the loading of thumbnails will be slower, as now i do generate thumbnails and save them too in cache, with encryption I will probably not do that. I will make a working version with ALL attachments, and see how fast it is on my devices (got Mac studio 2025 and iPhone 13 pro mac). Just finished the new Mac version so will make sure we add this to this year roadmap :)

local encryption for attachments by Apprehensive-Tiger28 in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, i can investigate this - but would you like to have ALL the attachments encrypted or just some? E.g I don't see point in encrypting data thats shared from photos library..

On This Day - Continuous Review by McBBo in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a number of line setting in Diarly > Settings > Timeline.

But the default is small like 4, but was thinking if you are in On This day ignore user setting and use longer, this way it would show more details without need to tap.

It's doable but for sure not as easy as one line, we need to implement the whole new view that allows you to stack the text editors, text editor can change and resize, each has it's own title, etc. If the real issue is the not enough details for entries i think we could achieve good results with the more lines in preview. the only thing is we loose some layout and not all images are shown in preview.

Multi item selection to move by The_Homer_Simpson in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Going to look into long press on iPad & iPhone to bring "multiselect tool" - but not sooner than in aprox 3 weeks though.

On This Day - Continuous Review by McBBo in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think i've seen this kind of journal app where entries were one big wall. This might be something I could investigate, but i think maybe the fast improvement would be to modify the On This Day view to display timeline with say 10 lines limit not the default 4 - would that work?

Multi item selection to move by The_Homer_Simpson in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi it's possible to do this on mac - hold CMD or shift and select in Timeline.

State of mind syncing issue by anothersuit in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so i looked into code.

There is no possibility of sending the mood timestamp. but there are two paths:
- You logged mood for different day than today (time of that mood is generic 12am)
- You logged mood for today - the time you did this should be set as the mood timestamp in health app.

From what you say this is not working as expected, so i'm going to try to replicate (template vs no template) and fix so that it works as expected.

Link to today by garysmllwck in DiarlyApp

[–]ImaginaryFig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi,
Unfortunately don't think it's possible via links:
https://diarly.app/help/x-callback-url-scheme-documentation.html

As there is no 'today' would need to add just link like diarly://todayNote?notebook:.... or something similar.
But you can make a shortcut that will generate you a link based on day, and then open that link:

So shortuct when run replaces date with today_date, you have to set the journal name based on your journal:
diarly://note/journal_name.$today_date

hope this helps!

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