Show HN: DayJot – Another open-source alternative to OhLife (opens in new tab)

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29 pointsmarbemac11y ago12 comments

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Just curious more than anything - what's the rationale for going with the GPL? Is it because you both open sourced the app and run it as a hosted service? (not quite sure how it helps this scenario, but again, curious)

veeti11y ago

You might also want to consider the AGPL.

wingerlang11y ago

An idea. I have several "things" I want to log. One of what I did at work, and one for personal things like a diary. It would be neat to have the ability to receive multiple emails per day, at different times. I'd probably pay another $1 per "email".

marbemacOP11y ago

It does accept multiple emails per day, however it doesn't distinguish within a day. If you send it more than one email per day it will append the text of the email to the existing entry for that day.

Perhaps you could create an account with your work email, and one with your personal email? I hope I understood you correctly!

wingerlang11y ago

I see, although doing that I would have to go back and find that email again to reply again.

Multiple accounts, maybe. I'd just prefer to have it all in one account. The work notes are still personal, so I guess a mix would work. Like gmailusername+workstuff@gmail.com should do the trick.

sossles11y ago

So very close to what I want! I'd like to record short notes about my kids as they grow up (not necessarily daily) and ideally attach a single photo every now and then. Is there anything around like that?

Otherwise I'm tempted to get forkin'.

marbemacOP11y ago

You can choose which days of the week, and at what time each day, the service send you reminder emails. As for photos, that's next on the list of features!

Jonovono11y ago

What are the other alternatives? I never got to try OhLife. I was planning on making something similar, so it's cool that these things already exist, although i'd want a few more features so maybe i'll look into forking this!

marbemacOP11y ago

I'm open to anything you'd want to contribute, so long as it doesn't compromise the private nature of the service. Fork away! I'm available if you have any questions about the codebase, or need help getting started.

entitydc11y ago

Looks great - forked it and look forward to submitting some tests.

marbemacOP11y ago

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing what you put together. Are you working on the Rails side or the Ember side (or both)?

entitydc11y ago

For now on the Rails side - I'm interested in learning Ember but it's a bit more of a project for the future.

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mikejarema11y ago

veeti11y ago

You might also want to consider the AGPL.

wingerlang11y ago

marbemacOP11y ago

Perhaps you could create an account with your work email, and one with your personal email? I hope I understood you correctly!

wingerlang11y ago

I see, although doing that I would have to go back and find that email again to reply again.

Multiple accounts, maybe. I'd just prefer to have it all in one account. The work notes are still personal, so I guess a mix would work. Like gmailusername+workstuff@gmail.com should do the trick.

sossles11y ago

Otherwise I'm tempted to get forkin'.

marbemacOP11y ago

You can choose which days of the week, and at what time each day, the service send you reminder emails. As for photos, that's next on the list of features!

Jonovono11y ago

marbemacOP11y ago

entitydc11y ago

Looks great - forked it and look forward to submitting some tests.

marbemacOP11y ago

Thanks! Looking forward to seeing what you put together. Are you working on the Rails side or the Ember side (or both)?

entitydc11y ago

For now on the Rails side - I'm interested in learning Ember but it's a bit more of a project for the future.

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