{"id":13411,"date":"2010-09-17T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13411"},"modified":"2010-09-17T10:44:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T08:44:17","slug":"ohlife-private-blogging-via-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/17\/ohlife-private-blogging-via-email\/","title":{"rendered":"OhLife – private blogging via email"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the years that I’ve been blogging, quite a few people asked me if I know of any easy way to maintain a private blog. \u00a0They seemed to not care about the rest of the world and just wanted a private diary, but without paper and without too much technical hassle. \u00a0Of course, there are many applications, like WordPress<\/a>, that could be installed on a personal computer and used in private mode. \u00a0But that still seemed too much work for a diary. \u00a0So I never really had a good answer, except use any text editor and save files in some date-based directory structure.<\/p>\n

Recently I came across a very elegant solution to the problem though. \u00a0OhLife<\/a> is a simple and straightforward blogging service. \u00a0It has two very distinct features that together set it apart from most other blogging services. \u00a0It enforces private blogs – only you see your entries. \u00a0No public stuff, no friends, no nothing. \u00a0And they help you build a habit out of blogging by sending you an email every night with a question “How did your day go?<\/em>“. \u00a0This seems so natural and so simple that I can’t think of anybody who won’t be able to do it.<\/p>\n

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Over the years that I’ve been blogging, quite a few people asked me if I know of any easy way to maintain a private blog. \u00a0They seemed to not care about the rest of the world and just wanted a private diary, but without paper and without too much technical hassle. \u00a0Of course, there are … Continue reading OhLife – private blogging via email<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[29,72,19],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-blogging","tag-email","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7690,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/19\/daily-diary-of-bill-clinton\/","url_meta":{"origin":13411,"position":0},"title":"Daily diary of Bill Clinton","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Blogging went it's way up to the presidents even. 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