Show HN: Shortdiary – A Diary for the 21st Century

What are you trying to achieve with this? Why would people use this instead of a) keeping a private pen & paper diary, b) using one of the well-known blogging platforms? Not a criticism - I want to understand exactly what the use case is.

For my purposes (private diary solution), I'm trying to figure out if anything digital could ever be as good as the offline experience - just getting a nice LeuchtTerm notebook and putting pen to paper.

Because: why do I want to write a diary? For me, a diary is catharsis, and the process of writing helps me force clarity. It's also a personal project that will delight me later on, once I have enough material to browse through.

So, what could a digital solution offer me that's better? Indeed, two of the most important features of a diary are made worse by this solution: I'm dubious of your privacy standards (are entries saved in free text?), and it's less personal to me. Organisation features (e.g. tagging) are of no interest at all - I want my diary to be a massive end-to-end mess that I can only dip in and out of, not "search by tag". Finally, if this was ever going to work for me, the design would have to really stand out - e.g. something super minimalist, absolutely no frills.

Sorry if some of this is disappointing to hear! It may be that I'm just not the right user.

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You might want to consider re-branding this wordpress hosting service, diaries are usually private until the author decides otherwise. (I didn't register, WP assumption made from the terms)

These are all questions I ask myself before deciding to sign up for something like this.