Having Trouble With Remembary?

Remembary 1.4 is now out, and it includes several big fixes for problems that some users have been having. Here are some other tips:

1. First off, please let me know if you're having trouble! Fill out the support form and describe what happens. Many problems don't happen to everyone, so it's hard for me to fix things unless I know about the problems. This also lets me get back to you personally.
2. Some people have reported that they can't see pictures or maps in Remembary. This is probably just a setting on your iPad and is easily fixed. Read all about it in this blog post.
3. For security reasons, there is no way to restore a lost password - if you can't remember your password for Remembary, there's no other way into the app. This is another reason why it's a good idea to export your diary every so often. If you just want to start using Remembary again, you can delete it from your iPad and reinstall it, and you can start again with a new empty diary. (Of course all of your photos will show up just like before, since they're actually in your iPad's photo library). There are more details on resetting Remembary in this blog post.
4. Remembary can get confused if it encounters poorly-formatted RSS feeds, and sometimes can get stuttery if it is downloading from very large feeds. Try using the 'Test Feeds' button in the feeds setup popover (where you entered the feeds in the first place) to see if everything works properly. If not, try removing that feed and see if Remembary performs more smoothly.
5. Occasionally the cover page will stick in the closed position, locking you out of the app. Tapping anywhere on the page will make it open for you. You can also leave the app and come back in and the cover will open properly.
6. If you're using iPhoto on a Mac, you might notice some pictures aren't syncing to your iPad properly. Here's how to fix that by clearing your cache.

Comments

[Eve]

I would like to be able to have multiple entry's for a single day. I would like to be able to give them separate heading so I can search for them and even not have a date on it if it is something that is not just about a specific day. Please let me know if this is possible.

[Andrew Burke]

Hi Eve. Thanks for the suggestions.

Remembary bases everything it does around dates - it's a diary/journal after all! Most of the special features that make Remembary unique, such as Facebook / Twitter feeds and automatic mapping, are entirely built around the idea of entries being tied to dates. In may ways, it acts just like a journal: each day has its own page.

However, if you're writing today's entry, you'll notice a little clock icon in the right column near the top of the text. If you tap on that the current time will appear at the bottom of your current entry - this is handy for people who are writing their diary "in real time". If you're writing an older entry, you can just put the time in yourself if you'd like to separate your entries a bit. But each day's entry is always one block of text. Note that this block can be very long - you could put an entire novel in there (if you don't mind scrolling!)

As for having an entry without a date - that would just turn Remembary into a note-taking app, and there are already lots of those in the app store, many of which do that much better than Remembary! So every entry needs to have a date. If you want to just have some random notes, maybe pick an arbitrary date in the past or the future to store them - the day you were born, or a famous date from history that you like, or 100 years in the future, or something like that. Remembary can support practically any date (although the days of the week aren't necessarily accurate before about 1700 and I'm not sure about the far future, like the year 10,000).

Hope that's helpful.