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To offer a counterpoint, I signed up, posted about 3 entries, then got distracted and added these emails to the masses of automated mails that my eye automatically glosses over while looking at my overtaxed inbox.

Then I unsubscribed the next time I had an automated-mail-culling exercise.

So, "one more email demanding my attention" didn't work for me.

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I filter my e-mail inbox pretty aggressively, and also use it as a to-do list. I have found that having a reminder from OhLife in the evening when doing a daily review has dramatically reduced the friction from posting into a blog or even a word file. Both of those journaling methods I tried which were abandoned a month later. The way an OhLife reminder e-mail shows you what you have written seems to model our natural way of learning by making arbitrary connections between entries.

Same here. Kept up for about a week, then unsubscribed to rid the pain.

The solution has to be non-email related.

If you can't stand being reminded to keep a diary, perhaps you just don't really want to be keeping a diary?

I want to keep a diary, but I don't want to update it every single day at 8PM. I'd rather send out an update every few days when I'm less stressed about other things and have got together my thoughts on what I would like to write.

is the 8pm time not configurable?

i wonder if it could just look at what time you finally sent in each email and figured out what your typical response time was, then started sending them later in the day to compensate.

I'd appreciate this feature. I reply to OhLife's emails way past 20.00, usually around midnight.

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