LoginFrequently Asked Questions
- What is DailyDropdown?
- It is an easy way to record any little piece of information you want. Think of it like a micro-Diary. The true goal of this app is to make it incredibly easy for you to enter, store and recall your diary entries. No more excuses for not keeping a diary!
- Why can't I just email my diary entries to myself?
- Sure, you could just write a little diary entry every day and email to yourself. Then when you wanted to look back you could do a full text search of all you diary entries. Which is fine, except that you won't have the organization and metadata that DailyDropdown provides.
- Ooh, what organization and metadata does DailyDropdown provide?
- It takes your plain text diary sentence and divides each part into a searchable 'noun - verb - adjectives' entry. Also, it adds a timestamp to your entry so you don't have to.
- Ok, can you give me an example?
- Sure. You think: 'Dear Diary, today, I slept very well' but we want to store this as 'noun=I, verb=ate, adjectives=very well'. DailyDropdown is built so that the first input line stores the noun ('I'), the second stores the verb ('slept') and the third stores the adjectives ('very well'). So just fill out the three lines like that and hit 'Add Entry'. Click here to try an example account!
- That seems like a lot of work just to save a simple sentence. Why should I bother?
- Here's where the magic happens. DailyDropdown saves a record of your most commonly used entries and provides them in the dropdown menus for easy access. So after adding a few entries, you'll be able to write specific sentences just by using the dropdowns - no typing required!
- Sounds cool, what about looking back over previous entries?
- It gets even better. Just type in you search query and hit 'Search Entries'. DailyDropdown will search all of your previous entries and show you the hits. You can leave input lines blank as a wildcard for that line. For example, to search for all the times you've 'slept', leave the first and last lines blank, select 'slept' from the middle line's dropdown and hit 'Search Entries'. There is actually a fair bit of magic going on to auto-populate the dropdown entries with options that are known to return hits. Try it out!
- What's that weird 'ANY' option on the dropdowns?
- That it is a shortcut to clear the input lines; a blank input line means 'return ANY search result for this line'. Also, when auto-searching, the options that are above the 'ANY' are already known to return search hits whereas the options below the 'ANY' have zero hits (but are still useful for adding a new entry).
- Awesome! How do I sign up? How much does it cost?
- Click here to sign up.DailyDropdown is free!
- I found a bug (or have a feature request)! How can I reach the developer?
- DailyDropdown is still in early Beta testing, so user feedback, feature requests and bug reports are highly appreciated.
Please email: dailydropdown@gmail.com