What's New in Remembary 1.4
Monday, July 18, 2011 at 2:45PM Remembary 1.4 has been almost five months in the making and has a number of exciting new features.
Revolutionary Media Support
The biggest deal is the new support for photos and videos. Remembary automatically searches your iPad's photo library and gives you a popover list of every picture or video for the current day, listed with the times they were taken. Tapping on a picture brings it up in full screen, where you zoom in and out of the image. Tapping on a video lets you watch it - also in full screen. You don't have to dig around for your images in the Image Picker - Remembary gets all of them.
If you have an iPad2, you can even take pictures or video directly from within the application - and since they're added to the iPad's photo library, they're instantly available in today's diary entry.
Even Cooler: Maps
If your pictures have location information, Remembary will automatically place them on a map for you. The map also includes any Tweets you've made with location information as well. This gives you a quick and easy - and fully automatic - way to see where you've been.
When iCloud goes live this fall, background photo syncing will make the photo and map features even more valuable. Take a picture on your iPhone and by the time you sit down to write in your diary, the picture will already be in today's entry - and on its map.
Improved Export
The export function in Remembary 1.4 does a lot more than previous version - so much more now that it has its own button and popover. You now have the option to export by day, month, or year (or everything). You can also send your export in an email, or even send it to DropBox.
Diary on the Fly
Remembary was originally designed for people (like me) who take several days to get around to writing their diaries. Some people are more organized than that and like to write their diaries in real time. If you're writing a diary entry for today, Remembary now has a 'timestamp' button, which automatically adds the current time to the bottom of your entry. This is great for road trips or other kinds of travel. iPad2 users also get a 'camera' button that lets them take pictures or videos, which are automatically added to today's entry.
Better Localization
Remembary 1.4 now uses the date and time formats specified in your iPad settings - and this includes non-English languages and alphabets. The date name search now also works for non-English languages as well: 'Janvier' will give French-speaking diary-keepers every entry from January, for example.
Lots of Other Stuff
When you're typing in an entry, Remembary automatically saves in the background every ten seconds.
Earlier versions had occasional problems with the main text box shrinking very small or growing to be longer than the page - this has been addressed, boxed up, taped down, bolted into place, and given a stern talking to. It shouldn't happen again.
There have also been lots of small updates and fixes to improve application performance and stability.
Let Me Know What You Think
Let me know what you think of the new updates! You can add comments right on this page, or if you're using Remembary you can now send an email directly from the "?" links popover. Remembary is also on Facebook and Twitter.
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I'm so excited about the photo feature. I'm an artist and I can use Remembary to keep track of what I was working on during any given day.
This is going to be awesome.
Hi Andrew,
I've been using Remembary for a few weeks now, and I'm really enjoying it. It fits my requirements perfectly, and is a pleasure to use.
I have one question:
From a security point of view, is there a need to be able to delete the exported text file? I'm pretty new to iOS, but I was wondering whether making the file available via iTunes file sharing could make it accessible to other apps/services? If that was the case, then perhaps it would be good to be able to delete the file once you've transferred it across to your desktop/laptop.
Thanks again for a great product, and keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Ceri
Hi Ceri,
Great to hear you're enjoying Remembary!
Inside the iPad, each app's files are completely unreachable from any other app. It's pretty-well impossible for someone to poke around inside your iPad.
However, all of your iPad's contents are backed up to your computer every so often - and someone who knows what to look for could find your export files, or even Remembary's database file. If you're concerned about this, there's a setting in iTunes to encrypt your iPad backups with a password. It shows up at the bottom of the page that shows up when you plug in your iPad.
Note that you can also delete the export files yourself through iTunes file sharing.
Hope that's helpful.
All the best,
Andrew Burke
Remembary
P.S. How are you liking the new features of Remembary 1.4?
Thanks Kathleen!
Did you get the latest version yet? Is it working okay for you? How do you like it?
Hi Andrew,
That's very interesting. It sounds like encryption of the iPad backup will do the trick, thanks for the explanation.
As for Remembary 1.4 - I'm afraid I'm probably not the target audience for the new features! I use Windows across my desktops/notebooks, Android on my phone, and iOS only on my iPad. So I don't actually have any photos stored on my iPad. They sound like great features though :o). And I really enjoyed your post on your technical blog, even if I won't personally use the new functionality. But I'll certainly make use of the export enhancements, and we all benefits from the rest of the "under the hood" improvements.
Keep up the excellent work,
Cheers,
Ceri
Hi Ceri,
I totally understand about not using the rest of the Apple ecosystem. A few things that you might still find useful:
- If you use Twitter on mobile, Remembary will automatically include any tweets with location information on that day's map.
- If you have an iPad2, with the built-in cameras, you can take a picture from the device itself, which will show up in that day's entry. You can even do video.
There's an even newer update coming very soon which fixes a very rare bug, but also includes some nice new 'handwriting' fonts.
Thanks for the feedback - enjoy!
(And if you haven't already, feel free to leave a nice review in the App Store - those can make a big difference!)
This sounds pretty ingenious. I'm excited, but will have an iPhone 5 soon. No iPad.
Can I still use this?!?!
It's BRILLIANT to combine all pics, facebook posts, tweets, etc. . . .MAP!
BRILLIANT!
Thanks Andrew. Just posted a review in the App Store.
Cheers,
Ceri
Ceri: Thanks!
Magpie: nothing to confirm yet, but rumours are suggesting something for iPhone later this year. It's all very hush-hush though. :-)
Is there any chance you could make the export function include the photos, perhaps by exporting to PDF? It's a real pit, but any backups you want to do are incomplete without them, really.