Location Restatement and Geofencing
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Locations are a train wreck. Depending on my position on my property, the iPhone will pinpoint me at a neighboring address.
I see in MacOS how to edit the location on a particular entry but I am not seeing a way to select all the entries at an erroneous location and change them in bulk.
Another good option would be the ability to take the list of locations and just say OK, anything at 123 Main Street should always say 456 Main Street
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The ability to tell DayOne if I’m anywhere within 100 yards of 123 Main Street, set it to 456 Main Street instead.
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Locations are a train wreck. Depending on my position on my property, the iPhone will pinpoint me at a neighboring address.
In case it’s helpful, you can enable the following option from the phone Settings app (not from Day One settings):
- Settings > Day One > Location > Precise Location
I see in MacOS how to edit the location on a particular entry but I am not seeing a way to select all the entries at an erroneous location and change them in bulk.
To multi-select entries from Day One MacOS, you can use Shift+Click or Command+Click on the entries. Then, tap the More/three dot (•••) button at the top right > Edit > Multiple Locations.
Let us know if that’s what you’re looking for.
Another good option would be the ability to take the list of locations and just say OK, anything at 123 Main Street should always say 456 Main Street
The ability to tell DayOne if I’m anywhere within 100 yards of 123 Main Street, set it to 456 Main Street instead.
Thanks for both suggestions! Those are great ones!
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So, the multi-select doesn’t work. I completely agree it’s a trainwreck.
My precise location is turned on, but I have to change the location for every single entry, which adds an extra step and makes me less likely to use it. The Command+select and Shift+select that works everywhere else does not work in my app. I have other issues, but that’s a big one. -
So, the multi-select doesn’t work. I completely agree it’s a trainwreck.
My precise location is turned on, but I have to change the location for every single entry, which adds an extra step and makes me less likely to use it. The Command+select and Shift+select that works everywhere else does not work in my app. I have other issues, but that’s a big one.
Yeah I’m struggling with this app a bit.
I LOVE IT!
But I want it to be so much more.
And for an app that wants a subscription fee, it seems awfully unfinished and understaffed.
Curious to see how Apple Sherlocks it in September but Apple being Apple it will be three years before their journaling thing even starts to approach DayOne and then it will remain frustratingly in a half finished state for years while they crow about their brave new Animojis or whatever the heck they are.
I’m started with OneNote and transitioned to Obsidian and moved to DayOne because I love all the integrations with weather and photos and locations but it all just kinda sorta works in between the app crashing.
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Hello! @rayadverb1
My precise location is turned on, but I have to change the location for every single entry, which adds an extra step and makes me less likely to use it.
The location data we receive is from the Apple locations API.
So, the multi-select doesn’t work.
Do you mean on Mac or iPhone? On Mac, you can select an entry in the timeline, and use Command+click on additional entries to select multiple options. Once the entries are selected, right-click (or Control+click) on one of the highlighted entries and select Edit > Multiple Locations > Edit. Is that working for you?
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I have to agree with the user about the location. I know support says it uses apples API but on my macbook when I am at home it shows my exact address but when I create a new entry, it gives a different address which is the building that i across the street from me. Yes, having to remember to change it each and every time is annoying. Locations are important as it determiens where you are/were and ccan help you to know and decipher after re-reading your journal you feelings (i.e., oh I was at home when I was feeling this or I was on the beach when I was feeling this). While I can decipher that I was at home based on the location if I am being truthful in my journal I would like the app to be truthful in my location. This may not anything that you can do as this may be outside the scrope of the journal so I just wanted to add my 2 cents and then let it me. Thanks.
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I would like to bump this thread up for visibility again. I live in Hong Kong, a densely packed city. It often puts the location under the wrong place. However, for most of my notes, they happen to be created in known locations, and it would be good to set a geofence so that those are properly tagged.
I love DayOne, but updating the locations is quite tiresome. It feels wrong to me that I get tagged to the McDonalds downstairs when I’m at home. 😅
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I don’t see why this is an Apple API limitation? The suggested locations from the API all have position information. If there is a known list of positions set by the user, then a distance between positions can be calculated by DayOne. If that distance falls within a range – the geofence, then it prefers the known location over the one originally returned from the Apple API. This could be a simple solution to this problem.
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yeah, sure you’re working on it. Sure.
You’ve got a road map of features nobody wants that you’re working on, meanwhile stuff like this goes unanswered for paying customers.
Still can’t select multiple photos at one in the macOS version or select photos from different days. Such a basic thing as feature parity goes unaddressed but yet we have collaborative journals for who, exactly?
Actively searching for an application to replace DayOne.
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Bumping this as well.
PLEASE prioritise fixing the locations functionality!
It’s one of the most important functions of a digital journal, for many of us.
Working with it should be a smooth experience.
An example.
– I have 5 entries written at my gym. They are all automatically tagged with the correct gym name, but when zooming in on the map the five locations are scattered all around the adress. Not collected in one spot.
– In the map view (using the Mac app) I choose “filter visible region” to select these five entries. If I now click the three dots > Multiple Locations > Edit, the map immediately zoom away from the location and lands on my home location, with no entries selected at all, what I can see.
– If I instead go to the List view before editing the location data I can now safely select all 5 entries and edit them.
– However, when searching for the gym name I now get a list of six different options, all with the exact same name and adress information, but none of them in the correct location, and no way to preview where those locations are.
I just don’t know how to cope with this.
Instead, it should work like this:
– I zoom in on my gym location on the map, where the 5 entries are scattered near the adress.
– On the map I can select all those 5 entries, either by holding command and clicking on them, by dragging a box around the entries using my mouse, or by using the “filter visible region” option.
– I can then grab any of the nodes and drag them all to the exact location on the map where I want all 5 entries to be collected. Or I can right click on that location and choose “Move 5 entries to this location”, or something like that.
– I can choose whatever name I want for that location, and it should be suggested for me the next time I write an entry near that area.In this example I have only 5 entries. On my home location I have hundreds, scattered all around my house.
The above should be able to be done on Mac as well as the mobile app.
Fix this before focusing on AI chat or things like that.
This is one of the basic functionalities. It should be flawless.
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I cancelled my subscription and went with Journal. It does not have all the features I want, but it has the ones I need, and it has the benefit of not giving money to a developer that has such contempt for the user base.
Did it as a trial — never felt the need to go back. Migrating your data is a pain in the ass but doable. As soon as Apple improves the process I recommend you try it out.
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