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What I would like to see from DayOne this year

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As a user of both DayOne and WordPress I have been waiting for quite some time to see the promised integration of the two. Since the purchase of DayOne pretty much nothing has happened, which is kind of annoying. So I thought I would put some thoughts down on what I would like to see this year, although I have to say my expectations are pretty low.

  • Some real integration between DayOne and WordPress (you might like to know what I mean by that, so here goes)
  • Where you have both a wordpress account and a DayOne account, a simple way to link them
  • Assuming the above then an easy way to make sure that a post from a wordpress site is included in a DayOne journal entry automatically
  • The ability to post a DayOne journal entry directly to a wordpress site and link the two
  • For DayOne only I would like to see a better implementation of HTML

I really don’t think that I am asking for too much here. There was a promise made just after DayOne was bought out and I think it would be good if that was honored. Of course this is just my opinion.

When will WordPress and DayOne integrate

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When WordPress bought the journal app DayOne I thought that after some time there would be some kind of integration between to the two. But so far nothing.

The DayOne people posted this on their blog. Which does more than allude to integrations, in fact it promises them. That was back in June last year. The announcement from Automattic goes further still:

That doesn’t mean that everything you journal has to stay private, though. When you want to share specific entries – or even entire journals with the world – you can expect seamless integrations with both WordPress.com and Tumblr to do just that. On the flip side of that, importing your favorite content from WordPress.com and Tumblr into Day One is on the near-term roadmap. 

But so far nothing at all. As a long time user of both apps I have to say that I am a little bit disappointed. I kind of thought that about six months was enough time to get something working, but obviously I am wrong about that.