Lunatask or Timestripe - anyone using either?

Posted by satis
May 7, 2025 at 01:31 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:

> hence my switch to Obsidian (Sync costs less than
> half what even the Personal version of Noteplan costs

This is one of those cases where getting a SetApp subscription (which includes NotePlan) is well worth the $10/month (or $12.50 for Mac+iOS). That service does a wonderful job of curating an insane number of best-of-breeed Apple-oriented apps as part of the one subscription price.

https://setapp.com/apps

If I hadn’t already purchased a substantial minority of the apps they offer I’d have been a subscriber for years.

>But Eduard has done a wonderful job with Noteplan, which is steadily
>evolving into a very, very powerful tool, with enthusiastic support from
>a band of very committed users. Eduard is also great at taking and
>incorporating feedback. If I were limiting myself to Apple platforms, I
>would probably have returned to Noteplan by now…

I think a number of notes/writing apps, especially those charging a subscription, are leaving money on the table by not going after part of the journaling-app market to give added value to their products. This is especially accomplishable since Apple is opening up data pipes (images, location data, weather data) to devs that are currently custom-coded in high-end journaling apps.

There’s no single Holy Grail app that can well serve planning, tasks, goals, PKM and notes, but considering that Noteplan is built on a calendar interface and on daily notes it’s practically a no-brainer to deliver a personal journal section that can be siloed off/encrypted for personal use that increases the value of the app to individual users.

Day One at $35/year is the best journal app I’ve ever used, and I manage a handful of different journals inside it. I think the market is ripe for writing/notes apps to add this functionality—not just from NotePlan but also apps like IA Writer, Drafts, and Ulysses. Most of those apps can handle large files (I have 3,000 one-page daily Food journal entries alone in Day One, but inside Ulysses I have dozens of individual ‘sheets’ that are 20,000-50,000 words in length) so I don’t see why this area is not explored by those developers.

Apple has built a really nice and free one-journal iOS Journal app but has purposefully held off, for now, from offering a Mac or iPad version. Once they do a lot of current journaling apps will lose a lot of customers. It has personalized suggestions (based on recent location activity, photos, workouts, and more), reflection prompts, calendar view and a lot more. But Apple likes to keep things simple, and they don’t seem interested in either rushing cross-platform versions (which might reduce their app sales commissions) and they especially have shown no interest in their app offering more than a single journal. I’ve played with Apple’s Journal and it’s really slick and powerful but since I need to manage multiple journals I’ll have to stick to Day One… or a competitor if one shows up offering more for the money.