Almanah Diary

Introduction

Almanah Diary is a personal diary application actually ported to GNOME 3. It's a user-end usefull application and would be offer a better UX with a re-design center in the main flow: save personal notes, not for share.

Status

• Needs design

  Design in progress

  Needs implementation

  Implementation in progress

  Stable

Relevant Art

DayOne (Mac)

MacJournal (Mac)

Memories (Mac)

Discussion

Initial ideas and thoughts - these should be focused on generating goals and scope.

Goals and scope

Center the user attention in what he's writing, and search in a clear way older diary entries.

Concepts

Main window, fist concept

Main window, second concept

Changes description:

• Menu bar:
  • Entry: more entry centered, to clear, print, etc.
  • Edit: undo, redo, paste ... preferences
  • View: allow hide some entry window elements (main bar and "past events")
  • Format: font formating, align...
  • Insert: images, links, time...
  • Help: Obviously.
• Date selector button: removed vertical weekday text and write all the date in just one line (better localization).
• Importante button: used a better icon
• Security button: removed because the encription option it's only configurable for the entery entries database (and more simple).
• Older entries: moved to the data button dropdown (see third concept).
• Save, print, etc, buttons: just one font format button, simple is better.
• All buttons moved into a single toolbar, more entry space, reduce distractions.
• Mic and video buttons: an idea for the future (record sound or video for a better personal diary experience).

Main window (entry), third concept

third concept variation

• As Guillemin comments:
  • moved date dropdown and "mark as important" to the center.
  • removed "insert time" button.
• Added a new multimedia icon: speech to text.

Old entries

Guidelines

Design guidance for developers.

Comments

• Maybe for the second concept, favorite day button could be directly right to the date selector. They are also not directly related to the webcam/mic buttons, as far as I see. I'm also not sure that the add time function should be kept, especially as a button. It's quite easy to see the time on gnome 3 and takes less time to type it rather than clicking on a button to add it. A solution might be to experiment date and favorite day button centered. Guillemin
  • Yes, good points. I specially like the idea of move the date and mark as important to the center. Álvaro.
• Looks great. However the current application limits to one entry per day - that might be limiting if user works on a few things concurrently (for example have a few projects, is taking notes from few courses at college, takes notes from both professional life and personal). Ability to tag/enter a few entries per day would solve the problem. Maciej