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Add to SafariWhen comparing Day One vs Awesome Note, the Slant community recommends Awesome Note for most people. In the question“What are the best journaling apps for iOS?” Awesome Note is ranked 1st while Day One is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Awesome Note is:
Can use it for planning and Journalling almost like digital bullet journal.
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Pros
Pro Effortless syncing via iCloud
Between iOS and Mac.
Pro Beautiful UI
Choice of color palette, icon glyph variety and animations create a design that is pleasurable to look at and does not get in the way.
Pro Easy to use
A high level of attention to detail, intuitive suggestions and automation of common tasks make this application very easy to use.
Pro Easy to to find old posts
With a good search and calendar view.
Pro All the features you need
You can create more than one entry in one day. You have many styles and font choices. You can add photos, tags to your entries. Optionally, you can have pass-codes, reminders. You can opt to automatically add location and weather data. Search function built-in. Ability to export a portion or all entries to PDF.
Pro 2012 Mac App of the Year
Pro Markdown support
Pro Sync with Dropbox / can edit in Dropbox
Can use it for planning and Journalling almost like digital bullet journal.
Pro Multiple folders
You can make as much folders as you want, and although the colors available aren’t infinite they are pretty and enough. You can organize them with small index titles.
Cons
Con Subscription based
For former users, it's $24.99 per year.
For new users, current discount is $34.99 per year while full price is $49.99 per year.
Con Lack of DropBox and iCloud syncing
Con Cannot local sync between Mac and iOS devices.
Con No encryption
Data is stored in a plain-text XML file.
Con Limited to one photo per entry
Currently, in both the mobile and Mac apps, only a single photo can be added to a journal entry.
Con Lacks Windows or Web support
Day One has no Windows or Web support, which can be inconvenient. For example, if users don't want to write a long journal entry on their phones and only have a Windows PC available as an alternative, they are not able to use it as a more practical alternative to write said post, not even using a web browser.
Con You need to purchase two separate subscriptions to sync your iPhone and Mac
Read this from Day One Support: http://help.dayoneapp.com/day-one-2-0/how-many-licenses-do-i-need-to-run-day-one-on-multiple-devices
Con Backgrounds are girly and corny
You can’t add your own backgrounds, not in the start page neither in the individual entries, so you only have the ones provided and after a while they become boring. They don’t say this in the App Store, so it’s possible to buy it thinking you’ll be able to have personalized backgrounds but no.
Con No folders inside other folders
Although there is a little option to organize the folders in a category index you can’t make folders inside other folders so you waste time looking despite how organized your stuff is.
