Journal app Day One is introducing Shared Journals, a brand new social characteristic that allows you to share tales and reminiscences along with your family and friends. Shared Journals are a non-public area the place you and your folks can share life updates with one another. It’s type of like a small social community the place you’ll be able to share experiences with as much as 30 different individuals. Members of Shared Journals can go away feedback and reactions on entries, bringing a brand new degree of social interplay to the journal app.
Day One notes that Shared Journals are separate out of your private journals, and that no entry in a non-public journal will ever be shareable. The corporate additionally notes that Shared Journals are end-to-end encrypted. Because the creator of a shared journal, you’ll be able to take away members, and as a member, you may have the choice to depart Shared Journals.
You want a Day One Premium subscription, which prices $3 monthly, to create Shared Journals. Individuals you invite can entry your Shared Journal with a free account. Premium customers can create limitless Shared Journals.
There are numerous alternative ways for customers to make use of Shared Journals, the corporate says, whether or not it’s connecting with household or small buddy teams. As an illustration, you should use the characteristic as a digital household reminiscence ebook, particularly if your loved ones is unfold throughout totally different places. Or, you should use Shared Journals as a collaborative journey journal the place you and your family members all share tales and pictures from journeys.
It is also used for wellness initiatives like health challenges and psychological well being assist teams. You’ll be able to share suggestions with others and encourage each other as you overcome challenges collectively. If you would like a extra intimate Shared Journal, you’ll be able to create a {couples} journal the place you and your accomplice mirror in your relationship and have a good time milestones collectively.
To get began with Shared Journals, you might want to faucet the app’s higher left menu the place you will notice a brand new “Shared” part. Then, you will have to click on “New Shared Journal” and customise and identify your new Shared Journal. Day One suggests making the title and outline clear since you can be sharing it with others. You’ll be able to then invite members by means of an invitation hyperlink. After sharing invite hyperlinks, you’ll nonetheless have the choice to approve or decline member requests.
When you publish the primary entry within the Shared Journal, it is going to seem within the “Timeline” view for the Shared Journal. The entry will seem with the date, your identify and a preview of any pictures or photographs you added to it. It’ll additionally seem with any reactions and a remark depend.
The launch of the brand new characteristic comes simply over a month after Apple formally rolled out its Journal app. The app helps you to seize moments with textual content, pictures, movies, audio recordings, places and extra. Journal additionally leverages AI to supply customers with customized strategies for journal entries. With as we speak’s announcement, it’s attainable that Day One is trying to retain and entice customers by giving them entry to a characteristic that differentiates its platform from the competitors.
