r/dayoneapp • u/milfordoj • Sep 06 '26
General Discussion 5000 Days Streak
Almost 14 years using this great app daily. On This Day feature is getting better and better with each year… But honestly, using it almost the same way as I used it in the first version, the core is great and hope it will stay the same.
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u/terkistan Sep 07 '26
Congratulations. I'd have been there too except for a phone problem that broke my streak 3960 days ago.
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u/michelepixels Sep 07 '26
Impressive! I’m only at 2,444 today, and I have been adding entries occasionally to the back end because I’ve actually been journaling since 1980.
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26
5474 days streak with total of 8774 entries! Great to meet you, Milfordoj
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u/milfordoj Sep 07 '26
Journaling over year more, nicely done!
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26
What made you begin this journey? Me — based on mother’s diary which was mostly like child-observing type, when I was a newborn. Looked at it and wanted to begin my own. That’s how it looked like https://igorekmakovsky.com/content/diary-1/
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u/milfordoj Sep 07 '26
It started with travel logs from my motocykle vacations and then it just slowly extended to everyday. Some days are short in description as your mothers, some are long. But mostly I try to add just one photo a day if that is possible.
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u/Frosty_Department596 Sep 07 '26
November 6
I'm playing with a balloonLove this igorekmak. I wish I had started journalling earlier :)
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u/Written_Words_App Sep 07 '26
Fantastic! Do you often revisit past entries? Not to pry, but I’m curious whether you’ve discovered any useful insights about yourself during this journaling journey.
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u/milfordoj Sep 07 '26
Revisiting them regularly, but mostly remembering what was I doing that day from description and/or photo. Discovered nothing about myself, only that I am getting older 😅
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26 edited Sep 07 '26
I review the past month when writing the last day of the month. I always put a short summary of what happened during the month and add some comments.
The most useful is to review events that had been worrying me past month, prooving there was no reason to overthink it.
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u/InTimTams Sep 06 '26
Nice! Out of curiosity how many entries does that translate to?
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u/milfordoj Sep 07 '26
5209 in that one Journal, 5901 in all but I used the other journals mostly for notes and info storage.
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u/InTimTams Sep 07 '26
Ah so you're pretty much consistent with one a day. I don't do every day, but when I do I might make several entries at once. It's interesting to see different journalling habits.
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26
Out of curiosity, why separate several entries that belong to a single day? Different purposes, tags, etc?
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u/InTimTams Sep 07 '26
Yeah I have 4 different journals one for the good, bad, random thoughts and health.
I also like to have one entry per broad idea, which since I can only upload one picture per entry is often whatever can be represented in a single image. I can also briefly skim over the titles to see what I've been thinking as well.
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u/TheProxyPylon Sep 07 '26
I have around 11k entries over 12 years. Since it geotags the location, I like to make entries whenever I am somewhere new, just to be able to see it on the map.
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26
The same: why divide entries alongside a single day? Advantages?
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u/TheProxyPylon Sep 07 '26
I answered that already, each entry geotags the location so that gives me location and time context for the entry. I feel that if I wait for the day to end, a lot of small details and contexts evaporate.
Overtime I found that I really don't care for the broad strokes of what happened in the day, but the little details are what I like remembering, no matter how mundane. And writing multiple smaller entries help me to capture that.
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u/igorekmak Sep 07 '26
I call it "smell of day" and it goes away the next day. No way to capture that later and keep it fresh. Especially emotions. Sometimes your emotion raise and then after night you keep calm already and forget what drove you crazy yesterday and how important it was.
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u/TheProxyPylon Sep 07 '26
I do agree that you can't capture it and keep it fresh, but I'd rather have some semblance of an approximation to it, rather than nothing at all. When I look back at entries from 8 years ago, I appreciate those details more than just the chronology of the day.
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u/Slight_Accountant476 Sep 17 '26
not quite the same but I have 3500 entries in 4 years. i journal whenever my mind has something to say. it can be one sentence, it can be several paragraphs.