Diary is an innovative app where you could put your personal notes or personal journals every day. It's one of the best choices out there!
If you have a habit of writing on your diary every day, a safe, simple and easy mobile diary app could be of great help. To date, the continued innovation in technology has paved the way to the development of paperless diary and notebooks.
It will help you keep it ordered by date like a traditional journal or personal diary. You can make predictions about what will happen and see if they come true, and you can see how you changed over time, and read over memories, having a few laughs. It's the funniest, quickest and easiest way to document your life through a series of notes. The app is available on F-Droid and here.
There is a help, a test, an example styles file and an example script file, which may be copied in to an entry for reference if required.
I had a request #15 to add an option to change the Diary storage folder, which was duly added. Not foreseeing potential future side effects I used the app name for the default value of the option, which was already set in the code. Since then I have gratefully received several language translations, some of which have changed the app name for that language. This has had the result of some users #24, #29 apparently losing their entries when they upgraded, or possibly uninstalled and reinstalled the app, which resets the settings. If this happens, check the folder option and either change it back or move your entries with a file manager.
- Entries saved in plain text files
- Browse entries
- English, Catalan, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, German, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch and simplified Chinese
- Choice of date picker calendars
- Diary entries may use markdown formatting
- Optional index page
- Display media stored in diary folders
- Display OpenStreetMap maps
- Add media from media providers
- Receive media from other apps
- Receive geo uris from other apps
- Incremental search of diary entries
- Add events to calendar
- Dark or light theme for editing
The toolbar icons are, from left to right:
- Previous - show the previous entry or today
- Next - show the next entry or today if next
- Today - show today's entry
- Go to date - show a date picker calendar to select a new date
- Index - go to index page if set
- Search - incremental search of diary entry
- Find all - find all diary entries containing search text
- Add time - Add the current time to diary entry
- Add media - show a media picker to select media
- Edit styles - show an editor to edit the custom styles
- Edit script - show an editor to edit custom javascript
- Settings - show the settings
Depending on the device and orientation, some items may be on the menu.
Swipe left and right in the diary page will show the next or previous day, or in the custom calendar will show the next or previous month.
Swipe up and down with two fingers in the diary page will show the previous or next month, or in the custom calendar will show the previous or next year.
In markdown mode the Edit button floating above the page allows editing entries. The Accept button restores the formatted view. A long touch on the button hides it until the device is rotated or a long touch on the page.
See Markdown for markdown syntax.
You may search diary entries, the search will update as text is entered into the search field. Use the search widget or keyboard action button for find next.
You may find all diary entries that contain the current search text. This menu item will only appear while the search widget is active. A dialog will pop up with a list of matching entries. Touch an entry to open that entry. You may repeat this or refine the search text to find the desired entry.
You may use an index page. If an index page is set the app will start on that page unless receiving media from another app.
You may receive text clips from another app. A date picker will pop up. The text will be appended to the entry selected.
You may store media in the diary storage folders and reference them in
diary entries, so markdown text  will display
cat.jpg stored in the current month folder which is
Diary/<year>/<month> on the sdcard. You may either add media from
media providers like file managers or image managers or receive media
sent by other apps. Media added will be added at the current cursor
position. Media sent by other apps will pop up a date picker. The
media will be appended to the selected page. Content URIs
(content://) sent by some media providers and apps will be resolved
to file URIs (file:///) if possible. Media will be added using
markdown image syntax (), which will be parsed into
an HTML5 media player, text clips will be added as above, URLs will be
added as a link.
You may put links in diary pages, so
[DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com) will show a link to
DuckDuckGo. Links will be followed if touched. Use the back button in
the toolbar or the navigation bar to return to the diary page. Links
to other diary pages may either be a relative reference to the entry
file [Sunday](25.txt), or use a date URI
[Whenever](date:17/10/2017). Use your local convention for short
form numeric dates (UK: dd/mm/yyyy, US: mm/dd/yyyy). Use the back
button to return. The back button may be used to retrace your path
through diary entries and external web pages. Use the Today button
to clear the navigation entries.
You may put OpenStreetMap maps in
diary pages with the syntax [<lat>,<lng>], or
[osm:<lat>,<lng>]. Because of differing conventions in different
locales, the app parser will accept a comma or a dot ([,.]) for the
decimal point, and a comma or a semicolon ([,;]) for the co-ordinate
separator. Use the correct convention for your locale. Geo uris
received from other apps will be converted to [osm](<lat>,<lng>)
syntax in the diary entry. Diary entries using [<lat>,<lng>] syntax
will be converted to geo uri syntax. Caution - geo uris use a
period ([.]) for a decimal point and a comma ([,]) for the
co-ordinate separator regardless of locale.
You may add an event to the calendar by adding a line to a diary entry which begins with an 'at' symbol followed by a time and an event title.
@ 10:30 Dentist
An event will be added to the calendar when the entry is saved. A colon will be added after the 'at' symbol when the event has been added.
@:10:30 Dentist
Use the Calendar app to remove or edit events. Do not remove the colon from the diary entry or the event will be added again.
You may add custom styles to the markdown formatting by placing a
styles.css file in the Diary/css folder, which will replace the
built in styles file which simply limits the width of images to the
page width. Use the built in editor to create a styles file.
Caution - There is no such thing as a markdown syntax error, but syntax errors in a styles file may cause unpredictable results and affect all diary pages. See CSS Tutorial.
You may include the built in styles file with an @import statement
@import "file:///android_asset/styles.css"; or
@import url("file:///android_asset/styles.css");, which should be on
the first line.
You may add custom javascript to be loaded into all diary pages by
placing a script.js file in the Diary/js folder. Use the built in
editor to create a script file. Errors in the script will be logged by
the
WebView
which displays the page. See
Javascript tutorial.
If you want to use javascript libraries or write a large script it might be a good idea to use the Google Closure Compiler to check and minimise your code. It will handle multiple input files.
- Use custom calendar - Use custom calendar that shows diary entries rather than date picker calendar
- Use markdown - Use markdown formatting for diary entries
- Folder - Change diary entry storage folder. Caution - diary entries and styles will not be moved
- Index - Set an index page. Use the date picker to choose a date.
- Browser - Use browser for external links
- Copy images - Copy images to current folder
- Dark theme - Use dark theme for editing
- About - Show app version, licence and credits