March 2010
1 post
Memiary for Education
[If you just want to try it out, click here]
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting questions like, “So, are you still working on Memiary? What’s the future plan?”. This is one that has been perplexing me for a few months, too, so unfortunately, I couldn’t answer them at the time — I didn’t want to be brutally honest and admit that there was...
October 2009
1 post
Memiary API
After having spent a year ignoring “When will the Memiary API be published?” requests, I decided to do something about it today. Anyone can now build an app that talks to Memiary. To request a unique developer key which is needed with every request, drop me a line!
Also, you may find this page useful to test/debug.
1) GetUser http://www.memiary.com/api/getuser/ Needs variables: key,...
September 2009
1 post
Memiarising Classrooms
Memiary has been getting some great traction in the teaching community lately. Mark Warner, a primary school teacher from the UK, has been using it extensively with children he teaches to record things they learn everyday, and recently made a fantastic presentation about his use for the Teachmeet Sussex conference. The presentation was so well received that it got on SlideShare’s most tweeted list...
July 2009
1 post
Plan Tomorrow
As I was flipping through a yearly-planner/diary today — one of the many New Year presents one rarely uses — something crossed my mind.
Diaries, by nature, are there to help you remember and recall your past. Memiary, as a quintessential ‘online’ diary, wants to help you do exactly that. But the absoluteness of a real-life diary, as opposed to Memiary, allows you to...
May 2009
2 posts
December 2008
6 posts
“A little like exercising, the more you use it, the more natural it becomes, but...”
– Alex Bain (thanks Alex!)
New feature: Tagging (and a new nav bar too!)
I’ve been working on a lot of stuff under the radar, but today I’m happy to release a couple major(ish) new features and upgrades to Memiary.
Firstly, say hello to #hashtags. #You #use #them #with #Twitter, #and #now #you #can #use #them #with #Memiary.
Here’s how they work: you can include #hashtags anywhere in your memory — like “#work Went to product...
November 2008
14 posts
Settings: Twitter Integration, Change Password,...
A lot of wishes have been fulfilled with the addition of a few settings.
Reminders There is now an “e-mail” tab under Settings which asks you to officially associate your account with an e-mail address — used for ‘forgot your password’ recovery (coming soon) — and more importantly, gives you the option to set a “daily” reminder. A reminder is...
“Features tell you what you can do, constraints tell you what to do.”
– After a debate I had with a Memiary user this morning, I’ve been thinking about this all day, and I think that phrase sums up my belief. In the end, none of them is better than the other, but just more suited to the type of product you are creating and the type of user you are serving.
...
WatchMemiary was mentioned on this week’s episode of my favorite podcast of all time, commandN. When I say it’s been one of my few milestones to achieve for Memiary, I’m not kidding. Thanks, Amber and crew!
iCal Export
Beside the RSS icon in the Past archives pages, you can now find an iCal icon which links to the .ics file corresponding to the particular view (week, month, year, etc.) Click, save, import into Outlook, iCal, or Google Calendar, and have your memories preserved in your trusty calendar, forever.
…but that’s not all!
The coolest thing about exporting in the iCal format is that you...
Update - 13/11/08
The iPhone app is well under way, and we hope to have it out really soon. Matt, who is collaborating with me on it, has a great idea of what it should be, and I have no doubt he’ll pull of something better than I can imagine.
I got started on the Settings page but couldn’t settle on a “layout” suitable to the aesthetics of Memiary. I hope I can see the light soon, because...
Indie Startups →
a really great blog about bootstrapped-startups, gives Memiary a nice mention. Without sounding biased, I think Memiary is the most accurate example of a “bootstapped-startup.” Built over a weekend, with literally $0 and some Coke Zero.
Bitelia →
has some really great things to say about Memiary in Spanish. Oh how I <3 international publicity.
Awesomeology →
calls Memiary awesome and describes it as a “web based diary for anyone who is not a 12 year old girl.” I love that analogy.
HackYourDay →
writes about using Memiary as a personal productivity and motivational tool.
Lifehacker →
which is undoubtedly one of my top five favorite blogs on the web, covers Memiary. And that too on my birthday. What an awesome birthday gift — thanks, Lifehacker!
WatchDemo Girl screencasts Memiary. It’s weird to see your creation being demo’d by someone else, but nonetheless flattering. Thanks, Demo Girl! (also read the additional writeup-review here.)
Update
Now that the crazy, crazy attention has calmed a little, a quick update on things I’m working on.
iPhone app — I’ve teamed with Matt Brooke-Smith, creator of iFinance and many other iPhone apps, and we’re going to collaborate on making the most kickass memory-recording experience ever for the iPhone.
Public diaries — this is a feature that is going to take some work...
“You could go the paper and pen route, but then you would have to find a safe...”
– Rotorblog answers the ‘pen and paper’ criticism some mean people have been giving us. Srsly people, why don’t we just move to a typewriter? What about a hut; why do you need that house? And that car? Bullock carts work just fine for some.
RSS, baby!
You are no longer trapped in an asylum. A part of a drastic initiative to let your memories be just that — yours — I thought I’d start by fulfilling the most simplest but asked for demand: RSS feeds.
You can now get one for the past week, month, year, or all time (click on the icon in the top right).
While it may seem a simple fulfillment, there are a lot of uses for this.
...
“It could even drive a few people to rethink their lives - I can’t help but...”
– TechCrunch (having authored a B-grade competing blog for the last few years, it gives me uncanny pleasure to finally feel what it’s like to be TechCrunch’d.)
October 2008
13 posts
For those interesting characters
This one’s for my international friends: UTF-8 support has been added. You can now enter characters from almost any language! This means Polish, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and the gazillions of non-English scriptures out there. Additionally, some of you are fond of Twittering these: ☂ or or ☜. You think it’s cool. Well, we’re now...
It's 'memory', thanks
Since the decision of changing the name to Memiary, I have been debating endlessly with myself over its pronunciation. In their natural state, I have seen friends and family members refer to it in various different ways. A lot of people pronounce it ‘mem-yer-ee’. A whole bunch — on my initial insistence — ‘mem-aiy-ree’ (like a diary). Some are left speechless,...
Memories to the Past
A lot of you wanted to be able to edit and add events to past days. Including my mom. What if you miss a day? What about suddenly remembering you forgot to enter your favoritest part of yesterday? And of course, if you’re a late-shifting-12-am-home-comer, you’ve been wanting this from day one.
Your wishes have been answered, my friends.
Dating back to eternity, you can now edit any...
Revamped.
The whole ‘memory entering’ process of Memiary has now been revamped and rewritten in AJAX. What do this mean for you? A few things:
You can now enter up to 160 characters, as opposed to the previous 40, which was admittedly a little ridiculous.
After something is entered (literally, or the green tick is clicked on), it automatically jumps to the next textbox! Small, but...
Any AJAX developers who are BOSS at jQuery and...
Drop me a line.
Basically, I need this translated to ‘real’ AJAX: http://memiary.com/memiary/item/two
“Little services like this might not turn the world upside down, they might not...”
– There were a lot of things in Marshall’s post I found parallel with my philosophy and why I created Memiary, but this has to be one which resonated the most.
ReadWriteWeb →
Marshall from ReadWriteWeb — one of my favourite blogs — was kind enough to give Memiary a worthy mention. Some great suggestions also, almost all of which I’m following up.
Usernames + Pipeline + Press
You can now sign up with a username instead of an e-mail address. Two reasons converged to enable this:
first, since e-mail activation is not required anymore, having it mandatory would be stupid.
second, to prepare for the ‘public diaries’ feature, which is in the pipelines and will enable you to publicize your diary so that it is accessible by anyone via...
Timezones zones zones zones zones....
Memiary now supports your timezone. This was one thing I missed while building it, and it caused people to wonder, ‘is my clock wrong?’. When you login to Memiary now, it should automatically pick up your system date and work along with it.
Travel a lot? You’ll be writing in the visiting country’s time, not your own. This means when you look back at stuff, you’ll...
No. More. Activation.
Since launching, a lot of reports were received about the activation e-mail going into the spam folder. I can’t change Gmail’s spam filters, but there are some things I can change, so no more activation is required (but shhh, don’t tell the spammers!)
The lurker is now only a password away from being transformed to Memiary.
Rememark is now Memiary.
One day after launch, and the name ‘Memiary’ occured to me. It’s a play on ‘me’ + ‘memory’ + ‘diary’, which fits more to the service and its purpose. It’s also much easier to say and spread. After asking a few people, I concluded it’s never too late to change a name. Or early. Update your bookmarks!
