Peter Binder Have you ever had an extraordinary experience that you would like to remember for more than a few days? Or record it somewhere and maybe even return to it? If yes, then you will definitely welcome the application Time or electronic diary.
Momento is a handy application based on embedding everyday experiences. Among other things, you can also assign photos, star ratings, specific people from your iPhone contact list, tags or create events to these. Which will make it much easier for you to search for a specific item.
Upon launch, Momento welcomes you with a pleasant design and intuitive controls, so you don't have to worry about something being unclear or lost somewhere. The input screen shows individual days including events, you can also see the number of items for each date, place, whether a photo was attached and the type of so-called feed.
Recording and management of experiences are done in detail. The user writes a text to which he adds the venue, possibly created event, the person associated with this entry, tags for better search and finally a photo. Then just save and you'll have a complete experience. Of course, this is optional, to save an item you just need to enter the text and select an option Save. However, these additional properties of each experience then help you to better search or possibly sort.
That's not all. You can connect Momento with your other accounts, e.g. on social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Gowalla, Foursquare, etc.) and they will then be imported into the application. Which is very handy. I use the Gowalla social network for this reason, because then I know exactly where I was on a given day.
Before moving on to the settings, we will look at possible searches and work with inserted data. For this we use the menus on the bottom panel (Days, Calendar, Tags, Feeds). Days will always appear first when you start the application. Calendar, as the name suggests, is a calendar where the days on which you recorded some experience are highlighted with dots. Just select the day and it will be displayed.
Tags is a sorting consisting of custom tags (Custom), events (Events), people (People), places (Places), number of stars (Rating), attached photos (Photos). These are the already mentioned optional properties that you add to individual items. Here you will then select an option and based on it you will see the sorted data of the Momento application.
The setting consists of four options namely Feeds, Data, Settings, Support. And Feeds the user adds and edits embedded social network accounts. E.g. with Twitter, you can choose which tweets you want to display. Whether only normal or replies, retweets, etc. So it is up to the user to choose what suits them best.
The Data menu is used to manage the entered data. Momento can perform a backup, including a possible restore or export of individual backups. Thanks to this, you don't have to worry about losing several months of entries - that is, if you back up.
Settings offers the creation of an entry code that the application will ask you when starting. After all, a diary is a very personal thing, so it is good to have some kind of possible protection from the environment. The rest of this menu consists of options such as when the day or week starts, turning on sounds, photo options, etc.
So Momento is a very useful app that you won't regret getting. Maybe it will be a little more difficult to create a habit of regular input, but that is up to each user. The user interface is solved perfectly, in addition, you are constantly surrounded by the pleasant design of the application. So the pros and cons of Momento are huge.
The only downside is that the developers could also make a Mac or iPad version for faster typing and even better clarity. What do you miss about this app? Do you use it or do you prefer another one? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.
Momento - iTunes link
(Momento is currently discounted to €0,79, so if you're interested in the app, take advantage of this promotion before it's too late. Editor's note)
… I just bought it yesterday. I'm satisfied for now, we'll see later. It is true that its maximum use and subsequent archival assistance is directly proportional to the amount and scope of the entered information ;-) A good thing is working with recordings. However, I have been using Momonote since last year, to my maximum satisfaction. The advantage is the possibility of backup (via transfer of data to the server). That's all for now :)
I have been using it for about 4 months. I've never kept a journal before, except for travel ones. But now I write every day. I only miss 7 of them during that time. Success for me. I'm even now able to remember events two days ago even without the Moment. An unthinkable thing for me. The only thing that makes me a little sad is the data transfer to the computer. The application itself is beautiful and the result in the computer, archiving, looks like notepad from win. This Moment would like to finish it.