£1.79/$2.99 A 21st century diary
The idea of keeping a proper diary has great appeal, Those of us who blog know the joy of wandering through old posts, enjoying past highs and lows, and learning from our mistakes.
It all takes effort, though.
Momenta is a brilliant little idea, allying the concept of a traditional journal with modern notions of metadata and social networks, and wrapping it all up in a smart interface,
You can input diary entries easily, even retrospectively, and each entry can have a slew of metadata associated with it, such as a rating, people tagged from your contacts database, places, pictures and more, You can browse your events in a list, though frustratingly you can't go directly from one day to the next without tapping back to the overview first. You have to use the calendar view, or drill down by place, people or tags.
The brilliance, though, is that it hooks into four social networks too, automatically pulling in tweets, Facebook statuses, pictures posted to Flickr and a note of tracks you've 'loved' on Last.fm. It'll happily go for days without being opened, and then comb back through the activity on these accounts and suck in the updates that have been made in the intervening period. A system of icons and numbers beside each day's entry shows you what sources have been pulled in that day.
The idea of keeping a proper diary has great appeal, Those of us who blog know the joy of wandering through old posts, enjoying past highs and lows, and learning from our mistakes.
It all takes effort, though.
Momenta is a brilliant little idea, allying the concept of a traditional journal with modern notions of metadata and social networks, and wrapping it all up in a smart interface,
You can input diary entries easily, even retrospectively, and each entry can have a slew of metadata associated with it, such as a rating, people tagged from your contacts database, places, pictures and more, You can browse your events in a list, though frustratingly you can't go directly from one day to the next without tapping back to the overview first. You have to use the calendar view, or drill down by place, people or tags.
The brilliance, though, is that it hooks into four social networks too, automatically pulling in tweets, Facebook statuses, pictures posted to Flickr and a note of tracks you've 'loved' on Last.fm. It'll happily go for days without being opened, and then comb back through the activity on these accounts and suck in the updates that have been made in the intervening period. A system of icons and numbers beside each day's entry shows you what sources have been pulled in that day.
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