{"id":52674,"date":"2026-07-21T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52674"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:28:35","slug":"the-enshaittification-of-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/21\/the-enshaittification-of-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"The EnshAIttification of Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aleemshaun.com\/posts\/the-enshaittification-of-day-one\">Aleem Shaun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/aleemshaun.com\/posts\/the-enshaittification-of-day-one\">\n<p>I&rsquo;ve used Day One for more than a decade. It was an excellent journalling app. Private, minimal, easy to use, with excellent features such as geolocation, weather, &lsquo;On this Day&rsquo;, and book printing. Features that got out of the way and either worked quietly in the background or appeared only when you summoned them. That&rsquo;s changed.<\/p>\n<p>Now there are new subscription tiers. Previously, the tiers were Free and Premium. Simple. Premium included sync and a few other things that I can&rsquo;t remember, but it was compelling enough that I&rsquo;ve been a Premium subscriber from the beginning. Now, without consultation, I&rsquo;m Silver (not Premium), and there&rsquo;s a new, more expensive AI-driven tier, Gold. I don&rsquo;t object solely on that basis. You would think I could just choose to remain on &lsquo;Silver&rsquo; and all would be well. But no. Even with these features turned off in settings, I&rsquo;m visually prompted in the app to upgrade to Gold and use the Daily Chat (with AI), which I&rsquo;ve turned off and can only use if I upgrade. And yet, there it is, taunting me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/schwarztech.net\/snippets\/the-enshaittification-of-day-one\">Eric Schwarz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/schwarztech.net\/snippets\/the-enshaittification-of-day-one\">\n<p>Even Apple is guilty of doing this in the Settings app and the former iWork apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/10-off-at-fandango\/\">$10 Off at Fandango<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/15\/automattic-acquires-day-one\/\">Automattic Acquires Day One<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/productivity-apps-and-subscription-pricing\/\">Productivity Apps and Subscription Pricing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleem Shaun: I&rsquo;ve used Day One for more than a decade. It was an excellent journalling app. Private, minimal, easy to use, with excellent features such as geolocation, weather, &lsquo;On this Day&rsquo;, and book printing. Features that got out of the way and either worked quietly in the background or appeared only when you summoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-21T20:28:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"69b85b49-b915-4f13-89d7-3f6ac8386564","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-21T20:28:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AabhbSbkVTxOJ1z9qyDhlZA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1351,1541,31,2741,26,30,32,2742],"class_list":["post-52674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-day-one-journal","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-iosapp","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-tahoe-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52675,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52674\/revisions\/52675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}