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I don’t want this to sound like a “latest bells and whistles” type of feature but the other day I found myself wanting to ask Day One “didn’t I write about goals for the year before?”. I know I can do a search and it’s very reliable but having such a feature that effectively turns a question like the one above into an immediate search, in my opinion, might be very valuable (and sellable).
So right now, I would search for “goals” but if I said “goals this year”, it might immediately create a filter of “goals” with a time range of “this year”.
Does that appeal to anyone or is it just me? :)
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Now, you can type “goals this year” and yes, Day One will filter down based on terms of “goals” “this” and “year” but that depends on me typing “this year” into my entry.
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The issue here is that I do not, under any circumstances, want to give my very private DayOne data to any of the big LLM providers such as OpenAI or Google. So this would have to happen on device, and while this is possible, such LLMs are less powerful in general, especially on mobile devices with limited resources, and need a lot of storage, memory, and power.
So yes, it would be nice, but only under very strict privacy considerations, and I can see good reasons why this would be very limited.
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very good point – and totally resonate with it. Perhaps I’m thinking more as an “ai-light” type of search. As a developer, I’ve built “semi-smarts” into search algorithms on local devices that do something similar to what I just described.
I wanted to raise it as it felt like something that would be valuable but I completely see your point on it.
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Thanks for the suggestion. We are exploring how we can use AI to enhance Day One, and I’ve added your request to our internal tracker for consideration.
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This would be such a good feature, if privacy was maintained. like “hey, where did I eat out that time, last June, when I visited Portland” and it can find that for you.
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I have recently upgraded to devices which support Apple Intelligence and have used AI in other forms for many years.
The promise of AI technology is always greater than the delivery.
Given the huge resources and finances Apple have devoted to develop AI and the relatively paltry results, I’m not sure that it is in the interests of Day One to start down the AI route. I can see the potential benefits, but if one of the worlds richest companies can’t deliver on its promises, then what chance has a well meaning but much smaller company?Ok, so instead of developing its own LLM – Day One uses a 3rd party solution. If my data is encrypted server side, how is the AI developing and learning about me? Each time I log in it’s doing it on my device? Great, there goes my laptop/ipad/ iPhone battery as these things churn in the background! No thanks.
Just because we could have AI helping with our journal, doesn’t mean we necessarily should.
I like AI, but actually I would rather it was nowhere near my journal content and that Day One doesn’t divert any of my subscription money to a technology that will always be chasing the horizon and failing to deliver on its promised potential.
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I’m wondering. Do I want a personal diary or an AI-driven diary?
Day One is my personal diary.
For the AI-driven diary, there’s ChatGPT and the others, and the conversation mode with memory.
Opening a door between the two means letting in the unpredictable.
Everything I refuse to do for my personal diary.I’m starting to look for alternatives, because the direction that seems to have been taken in recent months – just changing the ergonomics for the worse, and basing everything on AI – doesn’t suit me. I regret it, because I love DO, but if the choices made don’t suit me, I’ll have no reason to stay.
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i hear and get everyone’s comments on the integration of AI with DayOne. I agree that I don’t want an “AI” conversation in my DayOne entries (that is why LLM tools like ChatGPT exist). I hope no one is taking my original comment as being a push for full AI integration into the piece.
I was referring more to a “smarter” filter for dates and the like. It doesn’t take much to turn a search for “this year” to become a filter for January 1,2025 to December 31, 2025. I wouldn’t expect the search to say “oh, you mentioned Fido so I’ll include Fido when you search for Dogs” (unless that entry had “dog” in it). I just want the filter to be a bit smarter especially since I have entries going back to ten years (and I’m sure some of you have many more).
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Thank you for your feedback, @jcdichant and @akselsoft.
In case you haven’t already done so, I recommend checking out our experimental AI-driven features under Go Deeper. Go Deeper uses AI to generate personalized and dynamic prompts in the editor based on what you’ve written, helping you reflect further and uncover new insights.
As you mentioned, @jcdichant, we understand that AI in journaling raises important questions, particularly around privacy and security. We’ve built these features with the same commitment to privacy and security that Day One is known for. AI features in Day One are optional, process only the entry you choose, and never store or use your content for AI training.
You can sign up to try Go Deeper, Day One’s new AI-powered journaling prompts:
dayoneapp.com/labsLearn more about Go Deeper here:
dayoneapp.com/labs/go-deeper/
dayoneapp.com/labs/ai-features/
We have dedicated contact form where you can share your feedback on Go Deeper:
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