Welcome to the session, Day One: Capture Your Life as You Live It. My name is Adam Daly. I am the customer support and social media manager at Day One. I'm really excited to be here. We had the opportunity to be here last year as well. And it was wonderful meeting lots of people, letting them know about our product, getting to know some of you that already use it, and helping you with questions. And so I'm excited to talk about Day One today and how you can use it in your life. How many of you are familiar with Day One? Awesome, thank you for coming and being here. And those of you who are new to Day One, raise your hand. Great. I'm excited to introduce this product to you because I think it's very helpful, especially in the context of family history.

There is a quote that I found on the FamilySearch.org website that I thought was very relevant to myself. It talks about on gravestones--you notice--there is a universal symbol that is on every single gravestone. Anyone know what that is? The dash. The dash, OK, you know this one. We all have the dash on our headstones. And that represents our life here on earth. There's a poem by Linda Ellis. You're probably familiar with it. But I like this line. It says, "For that dash represents all the time that they spent alive on earth. And now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth." Right now, ladies and gentlemen, you and I are standing in that dash. And the way we define it is going to be important for future generations.

Let me ask this question. And I would invite you to answer. If you are going to answer, please shout loudly. Why should I journal? What are the benefits of journaling? Please. Because it feels good. It feels good. I like that answer, thank you. What else? Remembering. Remembering, remembering what? Everything. Everything. That is an excellent answer, thank you. Remembering, what else? Please. So my kids and grandkids will know I actually did something. So she said, "So my kids and grandkids know that I actually did something." I like that. Please. So I like to include at the bottom, after an entry, the tender mercies that I was given that day. Absolutely, including at the bottom of an entry the tender mercies that she was given that day. And same one, yes? Please. Where you can record your thoughts and feelings. Where you can record your thoughts and feelings. Hopefully, seeing change and progression in your life. Yeah, isn't that a cool one? Seeing change and progression in your life. That's an excellent answer. Thank you for your answers. I've written down a couple of those, and some of them coincide with your answers, as well. Think about these and how you have benefited personally from journaling. Studies have shown that active journaling can reduce stress. Now this is great because putting your thoughts and feelings out on a piece of paper or in a digital format, you're able to express those, whereas you might not readily do that with someone. It's a great way to reduce stress and get those thoughts and feelings just out of you.

Improve your memory, this was one that was said, remembering. How important is that?

I never knew my maternal grandparents. They passed away before I was born. But my grandmother's sisters kind of became pseudo grandparents for me and my family. And that was something really special. And one thing I always remember growing up was they would call us every year on our birthday and sing us Happy Birthday. That was really special to me. And I always thought, how can she keep track of all of this information? How does she know all of us? We're not even direct descendants. How does she know and remember my birthday? Well, it turns out--I learned this at her funeral--one of her granddaughters talked about gathering up all of her different journals and all of the different logs that she kept of meeting people. And that was just the thing. Her journals included meeting people. She knew everybody. And she could tell you where she met them, how she knew them, their birth dates, their address. It was a great way for her to keep up on those things. And surprisingly, even in advanced age, she could remember little things, just like someone's name. So my Great-Aunt Mary was late, I believe, 90 years old. And she knew my kids' names, her grandnephew and grandniece, because she had recorded that information. Journaling can help you not only remember things that you might forget, but it also will improve your memory as you age. I also put on here inspire creativity. This has been an important one for me, especially in the workplace, being able to write down and flesh out ideas. When you get it on paper, it's easy to see kind of a bigger picture when you write them down. This one was mentioned--and I I think this is extremely relevant to this context--is journaling has benefits to future generations. Let me open it up again. And if you have a story that you'd like to share, have you ever benefited from reading an ancestor's journal?

I hear some yeses. Are there are any examples out there? Please. My grandmother kept a journal while her husband was a mission president in Hawaii. And it was during the two years, the year before Pearl Harbor and the year after. And she updated the journal. It's fascinating. So her grandmother kept a journal during World War II during Pearl Harbor, before and after. And it was fascinating stuff. Please, yes, nice and loud. My great-grandfather kept a journal--and I was able to get that--of the missions, the LDS missions he served. And also, he walked across the plains. Awesome. Amazing read. So her grandfather kept a journal as a missionary and then walking across the plains. Thank you for that. Please. Mine isn't a grandparent. I gave my children a journal when they turned five. Awesome. And it wasn't until 18. It was the way I knew what was going on in my children's lives without letting them know. I read them. [LAUGHTER] But they never knew. But because I did read them, I saved my son's life. When he was 16, he planned on killing himself. So they were keeping the journals? They kept their own journals. Yeah. I gave them all one at--maybe they turned eight, when they turned eight, when they were baptized or something. So anyway, a friend had given me a hint that something's not right. And I looked down. And sure enough, he wrote in his journal that he would kill himself that night. He was off at school. I called a psychiatrist. They had an agreement with BYU. He just wanted to die right now. And I saved his life. Thank you for sharing that. It helps giving them to children. So having her children write a journal, she had a son that had some suicidal thoughts. And she was able to stop that by reading the journal. He never, to this day, knows that that's how I knew. That's awesome. No, but that's great. A journal [INAUDIBLE]. I want to say this because the stuff that we write down and the things that we go through can benefit future generations. And if you're like me, you've read other journals of our ancestors. And maybe they've gone through similar trials or hardships, and how they dealt with it, to help me through those things. Those are extremely beneficial. Consider that as you write your own journals. What kind of information are you including in there so that you can help your future generations? And lastly, I just wanted to mention this one. By keeping a journal, you get to tell your own story. And I think that's fantastic. You don't have to worry about exaggerated--or maybe unexaggerated--stories from your past because you will have recorded it from your perspective. You know, the fish really was this big, right? You get to explain it, how you lived your life. And so that when people revisit those and read about grandma or grandpa, they'll get to hear it from your own words. And there's something special--just speaking on a written journal aspect--there's something special about seeing someone else's handwriting. It's sometimes a lost art these days. I write in all caps. But seeing other people's handwriting is something special because you know they put that down there. So these are incredible benefits to journal. Let me ask you this, why don't you journal? Time. Time, oh man, I don't have time. How many of you run into this? There was--somebody shared this with me recently. And I'm going to butcher it. I'm sorry. But they said, the person who says they don't have 10 minutes to meditate needs an hour.

We make our time, right? We decide what's important to us. I don't have time. That one is definitely a pitfall for journaling. Anything else? Anything else stand in your way? If I've struggled, I'm embarrassed to have them know that. And I won't write it down. OK, and that's fair. If you struggle, you may be embarrassed by what had happened to you. And you don't want to write it down, absolutely. That can be a hindrance. Anything else? Yes? Nothing special happens in my life. Nothing special happens in my life. Anybody else feel that way? Well, you shouldn't. You have another one? I feel like I fall behind. And so it's like I don't want to write about [INAUDIBLE].. I just write about my [INAUDIBLE].. I fall behind. I can't catch up. It's too tedious, right? Absolutely. Thank you for those answers. I don't have time. This--oh, you have another one, please. I tend to have diarrhea of the pen. Once I start, I can't stop.

Writing too much, can't stop, that can be a pitfall, absolutely. I put down here, I forget. This is me. I forget sometimes. The hustle of the day, and when it comes down to it, I've done too many things. And I just want to hit the pillow and go to bed.

Too much to write, I want to do the opposite of that one as well. I wrote this one down here. I don't know what to write. Have you ever felt like that before? I'm not sure what to put on my paper. Or maybe my li--you know, as I sometimes get discouraged, maybe I don't have anything to write about. Or, at least, I don't think I do. I can tell you this much right now. You do have things that are important. And whether or not you think they are right now, somebody will. I promise you. As I've read even mundane details from ancestors, they've become important in my life. Well, I have great news for you. Day One answers a lot of these questions in different ways. And I want to explain how we can do that so we can overcome those problems that we face with journaling. Let me tell you just a little bit about Day One. So we are based in Utah. We started in 2011, right here--well, in Lehi, actually. And we've had over 8 million downloads of our app since 2011. In 2016, we launched a major upgrade, with more features than ever, to help support you keeping your memories in a digital format. We have been honored with a couple of awards from Apple themselves. In 2012, we were the recipient of the Mac App of the Year Award. And then in 2014, we received the Apple Design Award. And we're very honored to have those and proud to be among the winners of those. For more information--that you can always get to at any time--you can visit dayoneapp.com. And that's our main website, access to help, to our blog, and any other information you might need.

Day One is available on iPhone and iPad. We are also available on the Mac computer or desktop. And, ladies and gentlemen, since December 2017, we now have an Android app.

We're very excited about that and excited to be in that realm, to get out to more people, and you can download it today for free on the Play Store. And we'll be coming soon to tablet, having tablet support. So if you have an Android tablet, you'll be able to do that as well. I'll talk about some future platforms that we're planning on. But we'll get to that in a little bit. The great thing about being in a digital format is--this is your journal, wherever you are. Most of us carry around a smartphone these days, or a tablet, or something like that. So I can journal no matter where I am. I can be hiking in a mountain, or on vacation, or at a lecture and taking notes and journaling my thoughts. You can quickly create entries wherever you are. My favorite part of journaling, you can add photos to those entries to really capture the moment.

When using your mobile device, if you've enabled location services, you can capture the location of where you are. Now this one's really cool--it may seem a little trite--but when you're adding location information to your journal entries, it will actually add the weather as well. And we do that going back 30 years of weather data. I've gone in and put in my birth date in Day One, and it will capture the weather--what it was like--on my birthday.

You can add tags to your entries for organization and for quickly searching through your entries at a later date. And we support different rich text options so that you can really make your journal stand out and organize them within each entry.

Does everyone here have a smartphone? Raise your hand if you do. OK, I should have said raise your hand if you don't. But that's fine. Most of you do. And that's what's great about this. Wherever you are, you get to journal. And you can just pull out your phone, quickly add some notes, throw in a picture, and you've caught that memory. You've caught that moment. Our editor is beautifully laid out with different options that you can add. We support rich text editing like bold and italics. We have Markdown support, which is a rich text formatting language. You can add up to six different headers to your entries to really separate out your information.

We support bulleted lists and checklists. And the checklists are really cool because they're dynamically active. So when you've finished creating your entry, you can tap on those check boxes to mark off a list. Very cool stuff.

There's a great, oop--skipped ahead, here.

Quotes, you can add quotes to your journal. And they just look beautiful. You can kind of see it right down where it says "Block Quotes" here. You can add quotes to your journal, and they just stand out a little bit different. So if you're quoting something that somebody said, it's a great way to do that. Now my favorite way to journal--and I've talked to a couple of you before we started here--is adding photos to my entries. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? And with Day One, we support up to 30 photos per entry. You can really capture every moment of your life and get it in a picture format. It is fantastic. If you take pictures outside of the app--that still has a way to capture location and date information--when you import those photos into Day One, we will prompt you and ask you if you want to use the date, time, and location of that photo for the entry. And it will automatically update when you say yes--a great way to historically journal, if you're bringing in older photos, to go back and write about those entries in the past. We also support drag and drop on the Mac app and on the iPad app. So you can easily move your photos from one application to Day One. You can also drag and drop them within an entry to reorganize them and place them however you want.

Day One also supports multiple journals. This is fantastic. You can separate into different categories however you want. I personally have, you can--actually, these are my journals right here. I have a personal journal. I have a spiritual journal. I have a hobby journal. I've even started one with tickets. Anyone keep their ticket stubs? You ever do that? I do that. And what I've done now is I've started taking pictures of the ticket stub and just add it to my Day One journal. And that way, I don't have to keep a bunch of little pieces of paper that fade over time. But this is a fantastic way to separate out your entries and focus on one particular area. Can we ask what the getting lost is? After the--absolutely.

You can view your data per journal. Or there's an all-entries option as well, where you can view all the entries from all journals. So you can see historically what you've done. This next feature is probably one of the best ones to go back and historically journal. That question was brought up earlier. I feel like I've fallen behind. The activity feed answers that question right there. The activity feed is your one-stop shop to import information from other sources. So you can add your calendars. So we will read all of your calendar events, and you can easily create an entry from that. It will sort your photos by date. As you can see up there at the top, it's got some photos I've taken on February 4.

So I can easily go back and scroll through the time, up to six weeks, and historically journal. I can remember exactly where I was. You can also import your social media feeds. So if you're on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or Foursquare, you can add those feeds in here. And I can see my posts, tap on one, and add it to an entry.

And if you enable location as well, you'll be able to see your locations. You can see that I've got a couple of those on there, where I can remember where I was and when I was. I tap on that and easily start an entry, a great way to historically journal.

Speaking of historically journaling, we also have a feature called On This Day. And this feature allows you to revisit entries you've created in the past. If you enable this notification, it will prompt you each day to visit those entries that you've created in years past.

There's a banner here at the top of my timeline view, but also you can enable outside-of-the-app notifications. So each day it'll pop up like a text message. And I tap on it and revisit entries that I've created in years past. And this is a great way to see where you've been and how far you've come. I personally love this feature a lot.

In Day One, there are four different journal views. First, when you launch the app, we have the timeline view. And this will just show you all of your entries from newest to oldest. And you can scroll all the way to the bottom, there. We also have a photo viewer. So I can see all of the photos that I've entered in there. I can tap on one of those. It will take me right to my entry This one is fantastic to see where you've been. We've got a map view. And it will show you little pins on the map of where you created entries. It's a great way to revisit those.

And again, for historical entering--creating entries--we've got a calendar view. So I can see which days that I've created entries and which ones I need to fill in.

And they're beautifully laid out. They work really well. Here's the same views on the Mac app. In the Mac app, we've got a couple of different views that help you out. On the far left side is my journal picker. And you can hide that if you want. In the center column there, that's the main view where I'll be able to switch between timeline, photo, map, and calendar. And then there's also an optional dual-pane view where, as I select entries in my timeline, they'll pop up over here on the right-hand side.

So this is the timeline. Here's the photo view. It's just a beautiful mosaic of my photos and a great way to jump to different memories.

Here's the map view. I can see those pins. I just tap on those pins, and I can quickly jump to those entries. And then here is the calendar view on Mac. The calendar view on Mac is a little more dynamic. If I'm in the all-entries view, I can actually see all of the different colors of the different journals on those dates. That will help me see where I've created entries and in which journal I put those in. As you select a date, it'll jump to a timeline view right below it, as well.

Now let's talk a little bit about sync. Day One offers unlimited online storage and syncing between your devices.

It works so quickly. And we have a team dedicated to making sure it is operational, that it is working fantastic, and it is constantly monitored. We offer an optional end-to-end encryption to make sure your data is completely private.

And it is a plus or premium feature only. And we'll talk about that in just a minute.

Once my data--once I've created content and I've got a bunch of entries, it's important that I get it into a preservable format. Having a journal just on my device--on my digital device--it won't have the desired impact if nobody can get to it later on after I've passed. So if you're keeping a digital journal, we have a couple of options for you. One of them that we're excited to announce, we had a booth last year, and we had some demonstrations of this. But now the product is live, and you can order printed books of your journals shipped right to your door.

And they are wonderful. I've actually got examples up here. So when the session is over, please come up and take a look. But they are available and ready to go. They start at $14.99 for 50 black-and-white pages and $19.99--just $5 more--for color. And it's ten cents a page after that. They're very affordable and a great way to have your journals in a preservable format.

For those who don't have a Mac computer, we are building a web app where you can access your data online through Chrome or Safari and Firefox. You can see my different journals here, my entries. And if I just select one entry, this is what it looks like. This is a beta right now. It is read-only. We will be adding more features in the future to create and edit your entries on the web as well.

Alright. Should we do a demo? You want to see it work? OK. I'm going to do it on iPhone just because that will be easier for me. And there's a lot of parity between our iPad app and our Android app. Question. Is it alright if we do questions at the very end?

OK, thank you. Alright, so here is Day One. I've opened it up. Right here is my timeline view. I can quickly start an entry by tapping the camera icon to access my photos or to access an in-app camera that I can take a photo right within the app. Or I tap the plus button to start just a regular text entry. Either way, you can add text and photos to the entry at a later point. Do you see how I can scroll through my entries historically? Got the dates over there on the right hand side. I'll just quickly show you these different views, here. Here's my photo view.

I just love how they pop in there.

My map view.

That's my current location, but if I zoom out, I'll be able to see my entries there.

And then my calendar view, and we'll come back to this in just a second, because I want to show you creating entries and revisiting old entries from the calendar view. Actually, let's just do that right now. So as you can see, this is my current date that's highlighted. I can scroll back here and see that I have really slacked off. And I need to journal more, so we will do that. But first I want to show you, the ones that I've created entries for are highlighted in blue because that's the color I've chosen for my journal. And that's customizable. We offer different journal colors that you can do. If I tap on this here, and I can either create a new entry, or I can view that entry I've created in the past. And if I have multiple entries on that date in years past, I can show the on-this-day view in that as well. So I'll just tap on this and see what entry I created here. Beautiful layout, you can see I've added some tags down here. It's captured my location down at the bottom. And this bottom little menu here is slidable. You can see the weather, the word count and the character count, and then a little map view, as well. If I want to create an entry, I just tap on a blank day here--Thursday, August 25th--create a new entry, and pops up my editor. It's going to automatically plug in my location if I have that service enabled. And then you can do all sorts of different customization here. So the far left is my journal picker. I can switch to a different journal if I want. I can add tags. I can change the location. If I tap on the camera icon to add photos--the great thing about this, when you do this from the calendar view, you can choose related photos, and it will only show you the photos from that date. So it's a great way, if you've got a lot of photos in your camera roll, you can go back and find the exact photos that you took on that date. We've got little--a chocolate monster here that we'll add to our entry.

If your photos are stored in iCloud, it may take just a moment to download and then get into your entry here. See? And here's my prompt. Would I like to use the photo time and location of my photo? If I've got that information here, it's an incredible way to go back and historically journal. We'll go ahead and say yes. I hit done, and there's my photo there. So we can also print them out? Yes. When you do printing in a book? Yes, and I'll show that in just a moment here as well. Let me show you the activity feed real quick.

So if I tap this button, this plus button down here at the very bottom, I can access the activity feed. Or it's another place to access the photo library or camera or text. So we'll jump in here to the activity feed. And here I can see historically, up to six weeks, all the places I've been, the photos I've taken, the calendar events that I have. You can see here, yesterday I had lunch with Kenneth. If I just tap on this, I can create an entry. And it'll put that information in there, and then I can journal about it.

I can use my tweets.

We'll do this one right here. When you tap on an entry from a tweet, you can add the tweet to a new entry. You can copy the URL to that tweet or view it on Twitter, a couple of shortcuts there. But when it pops up, just beautiful. And you have a URL in the entry itself, so you can jump to Twitter if you want.

The photos, so I can see my photos separated out by date.

We'll do this one right here. I can include the photo. And if I have multiple photos, it will prompt me for that as well--

but just a great way to be able to add your entries, even in the past. So if you've struggled, you've got behind, this is the place to go to get to those entries quickly. Can you merge one journal to another, like one different app, like, just journals [INAUDIBLE]?? Can we merge all those entries into Day One? We do have some import options. And we can talk about those, as well, at the end. I want to show you book printing. You guys want to see book printing? Yes. So go into the Settings.

And right there, I'm going to tap on Book Printing. I've already started to create a book here, but we're going to do this fresh. You've got some examples up here at the top that you can look at. There's also an optional hardcover, as well. They are 5-by-5 inches by 8-by-5 inches.

So we'll go ahead and do this real quick. I'm going to first add the journal that I want. We also have an Instagram importer. I can choose which year I want if I just want to do a yearly journal. And then this, this is an optional monthly-map page. So at the beginning of each month, you can choose to include a map that will have the pins of the locations where you were during that month. I'm going to go ahead and say yes. And here we go. I can edit the cover by changing the color. I can change the photos that it uses. I can change the text down here at the bottom by just tapping into these fields here and editing those. And then I can also do some more specific editing on the content, as well. So if I want to exclude certain entries or do a specific date range, I can do that right in here. When I'm done, I can preview the book.

Let's try and do this other one. It's already ready. Alright so when it's done, you can preview the entire book and see exactly what it's going to look like on every page. And you can add more books to the card, as well. If your journal exceeds the amount of pages that we have, which is 400 total pages, this will also prompt you to start a second book at a continuing point. When I'm ready to go, I tap Check Out here, and it's uploading to the server securely. I can order different quantities. I can choose color or hardcover, pay with Apple Pay or other payment. And if you are a premium subscriber, we offer a 25 percent discount on all book orders.

And one last thing, I wanted to show you just a couple of shortcuts here in the app. You can quickly search for entries using the search magnifying glass up there. You can filter your entries by tags, places, years, activity, music, and On This Day. I love On This Day because I can go back and see what I wrote two years ago. Or there's one down here for three years ago. I love On This Day. I can use the multi-select tool, which is the little check mark on here, and manage multiple entries however I want by moving them to another journal, adding tags, changing the location, deleting them, or even sharing them. Now as far as exporting your data, if you don't want to buy a book, that's fine. We also offer different export options, as well. You can export to a PDF and print at home on your own. You can export to a JSON file, which is a great backup method. And you can also export to plain text. So that's just briefly. I wish I could just have a million years to sit here and talk to you guys about this. Let me get back real quick to our presentation here.

For you and for me, the goal is to be better at journaling so that we can preserve a history for future generations. This conference is very interesting because a lot of it is focused on researching past ancestors and getting that details. But we have to remember, we are also doing our own personal history, as well, so that our future generations will have access to that. So let me offer some tips really quick. One, define what journaling means for you. Does it mean writing down every mundane detail throughout the day? Or does it mean writing down specific thoughts and feelings that you have, or more special moments? That is completely up to you. And how you define that will really help you stay focused and stay consistent. I also suggest using the multiple-journals option. Having multiple journals allows you to focus in one specific area, so whether it's a spiritual journal, a meditation journal, your personal journal--where it's actually writing your history and what has happened--or a hobby journal. A friend of mine is doing photography. And he adds photos just to one journal, no text--just where he was, what camera he used, what film, et cetera. And he creates a journal for that. I think it's fantastic. Day One also has reminders. My heavens, OK.

You can set up reminders however you want, whatever frequency you want, to help you stay consistent whether that's at the end of the day, or at the beginning of the day, or throughout the random time. We actually also have an option where you can have it remind you to create an entry after so many locations you've visited. So I've been to nine locations today. Why don't you write about it? We are also coming out with, soon, writing prompts. Have you guys ever used the 52 stories journal prompts? They're fantastic. And it's a great way to get started if you don't know what to write about. And we are working on including a feature like that in Day One so that you don't have to start with a blank canvas. You can have access to writing prompts to help you get going. And lastly, review your existing content. Go back regularly and read your previous entries. Find out where you were last year and what you were doing. How have you progressed and improved in your life? That is a fantastic way, a motivating way--for me--to keep journaling in the future.

Day One, let's talk about pricing here for just a second. Day One is a free download with basic features that is free on Mac, free on iOS, and free on Android. Basic comes with one journal. And you can create as many entries as you like. And each entry supports one photo. You also have access, on iOS only right now, access to book printing, exporting, reminders, activity feed, On This Day, all of that is included in the free version as well. In our premium tier, this is a recurring subscription. It's regularly $34.99 USD a year. We are offering a sale right now. So if you go on and subscribe today, you can do that. But wait, don't do it just yet. And that will include all the best features that we have, including unlimited separate journals, up to 30 photos per entry, unlimited online sync and data storage, and access to future features that are coming out very soon, including dark mode, audio recording with transcription, writing prompts, and video, and more to come. We also have on our roadmap to support Apple Pencil, as well, so you can do handwriting in your journal. Our Plus tier is for users that paid for Day One 2.0 between February 4, 2016, and June 27, 2017. I just wanted to mention that briefly because that means you keep all the features that you paid for, including 10 separate journals, up to 10 photos per entry, unlimited online sync, et cetera.

If you are a Classic, version 1, user, you can actually also buy the Plus tier if you don't want to do the recurring subscription. Now as a special treat for all of you that have attended the session, I want to offer you one month free of Premium if you will just send an email to support@dayoneapp.com. Please mention that you attended Adam's RootsTech session, and we'll give you one month of free premium. So you can try it out, see how you like it, add journal entries. When your subscription is over, don't worry. Your content all stays with you. We don't take any of that away. We just--you won't be able to access some of the premium features. But you get to keep all of your content. So all of that is with you.

And this is also one of the best places you can go to get help with support. I would love to stay and answer every single person's question. So I'll get to some of you, obviously. But if you have questions about the app and you need help, please contact us through support. Or in the Android, iPad, and iOS app, you can contact a support chat in the settings. That's a great way to contact us and get help. Yes? Only to our phones, correct? Phone, for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Mac computers. Mac computers? Yes. Alright. Thank you so much, everyone, for being here today. [APPLAUSE]