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Five Best Journaling Tools

2:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Public declarations and diatribes have their place, but sometimes you need a private space for your thoughts, dreams, and ramblings. Whether you crave a digital or analogue tool, you’ll find it in this Hive Five. More »
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iDailyDiary Securely Records Your Private Thoughts

2:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Windows only: Personal journal application iDailyDiary stores your daily musings in a simple interface, locked away behind a password-protected and encrypted file. iDailyDiary is extremely easy to use—just give your first diary a name and password and start typing away—each day’s thoughts are accessible through the easy-access calendar on the bottom or the arrows on the toolbar. The diary minimizes to the system tray, requiring a password anytime the window is restored—so nobody can spy on your personal thoughts even if you step away from your workstation for a moment. iDailyDiary is a free download for Windows only. iDailyDiary More »
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Memiary Records Your Daily Top Five

7:30AM Lifehacker US Edition | Web application Memiary will help you remember exactly what you did last Tuesday. Memiary helps you record and recall five events from your day in a fusion of twitter style brevity and journaling. After the brief and painless signup process, you begin filling in five daily entries about the activities of your day. You can search by a specific day or display your entries for a set week, month, year or all the entries you have ever made. Memiary is a free web based journaling application. Thanks John! Memiary More »

Use Jott to Keep a Medical Diary

1:03AM Kevin Purdy | Web marketer and migraine sufferer Scott Clark is tracking all the daily variables—food, environment, activity, and the like—that surround his attacks with a migraine diary, and he’s found text-to-speech services like Jott (original post) are the best hassle-free tool for the job. Not only will Jott (or ReQall or most similar systems) automatically record the date and time of the entries, but it’s always accessible by cell phone, and one can create a dedicated “inbox” for migraines to separate the diary from productivity-related uses. For anyone looking to track a diet, health issue, or other things that happen away from the desk, it’s worth looking into. Photo by robtxgal. Migraine Diary Creation using Jott [Site Creations] More »

Qwitter Harnesses Twitter to Help You Quit Smoking

12:30AM Kevin Purdy | The only thing worse than constantly reaching for your phone to Twitter at social occasions is a constant need for a nicotine fix, and health organisation Tobacco Free Florida must sense their linked nature. Every so often, post an update with the number (”X”) of cigarettes you’ve recently smoked to their Qwitter applet like so:@iquit X. You can also send diary-style entries to chronicle your progress, and see a graph of your cigarette intake at the Qwitter site. For those whose mobile extroversion is a lot stronger than their willpower, it’s an elegant craving substitution. Qwitter [via Twitter blog] More »