jojaba

<p>Simple Diary is meant to be simple enough to be used out of the box. Simple, but also powerfull and customizable. All skill user should find something to do with it.</p>
<p>Here’s the list of the settings (see screenshots for further infos):</p>
<ul>
<li>Custom post type “reminder” available. The reminder infos : Title, start date (required), end date (optional), start time(optional), end time (optional), location (required), url (optionnal), article (optional). The date and time infos are set using <a href="http://amsul.ca/pickadate.js/" title="Go to the pickadate.js homepage" rel="nofollow ugc">pickadate.js</a> jQuery plugin. All the system (compose reminder page and datepicker) is responsive.</li>
<li>The admin reminders edit page is sorted by start date and contain title, start date, end date, location and creation/modification date. All columns are sortable except location column.</li>
<li>Option page will let you modify some settings : Title of the diary page, slug modification, reminder count listed in upcoming reminders, reminder count in diary, selection of the columns in edit page.</li>
<li>Possibility to add a reminder from a post (beginning with 1.3 plugin version)</li>
<li>All default WordPress themes (twentyten, twentyeleven, twentytwelve, twentythirteen, twentyfourteen) can easily be updated to take in account the reminders. You just have to get archive-reminder.php, content-reminder.php or loop-reminder.php, single-reminder.php from <code>/simple-diary/themes-support/your_theme/</code> and put it into your hteme folder (<code>/wp-content/themes/your-theme/</code>). You can take these files also as examples to customize Diary and reminders for your theme.</li>
<li>A “Upcoming reminders” widget is available in the admin widget section.</li>
</ul>
<p>Simple Diary has been developed by keeping in mind following rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easy to install, use and customize</li>
<li>Working on every theme (including responsive themes)</li>
<li>Adding microdata used to markup HTML code for semantic (so that most popular search providers can handle the infos).</li>
<li>Make it translatable (availabe languages : english and french).</li>
</ul>


Simple Diary for WordPress

A very simple diary listing user created reminders. Ready to use in WordPress default themes.

Ashan Perera

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<p>LifePress is a calendar-based personal journal designed to help you consciously record, reflect, and grow through your life events.</p>
<p>Instead of scattered notes or forgotten logs, LifePress gives you a visual timeline of your life — allowing you to look back, recognize patterns, track progress, and move forward with clarity.</p>
<p>Each logged-in user gets their own private journal calendar, with unlimited entries, color-coded categories, rich descriptions, images, and now custom data metrics and a lunisolar (moon phase) calendar view.</p>
<p>You are the creator of your life experiences. LifePress helps you record them with intention.</p>
<p>Learn More: <strong><a href="https://ashanjay.com/lifepress/" rel="nofollow ugc">LifePress</a></strong>.</p>
<h3>Main FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Record <strong>unlimited</strong> daily journal entries</li>
<li>Create <strong>unlimited</strong> color-coded categories</li>
<li>Real-time category editing</li>
<li>Write short notes or long-form journal entries</li>
<li>Each logged-in user has their own private calendar</li>
<li>Weekly and monthly calendar views</li>
<li>Navigate quickly between months and weeks</li>
<li>Fast date selector + return to today anytime</li>
<li>Search past entries easily</li>
<li>Attach images to journal entries</li>
<li>Timezone support for accurate entries</li>
<li>Responsive design for all devices</li>
<li>Insert the LifePress calendar anywhere using a shortcode</li>
<li>Developer-friendly with pluggable actions and filters</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌙 Lunisolar Calendar – Moon View (New in 2.2)</h3>
<p>Switch from the standard calendar to a moon-phase (lunisolar) view and align your journaling with natural rhythms.</p>
<p>Center your life awareness around:</p>
<ul>
<li>New moons</li>
<li>Full moons</li>
<li>Waxing and waning cycles</li>
</ul>
<p>This view is ideal for those who prefer to plan, reflect, and reset in harmony with nature’s cycles rather than purely linear time.<br />
<strong><a href="https://ashanjay.com/before-clocks-ruled-us-a-life-aligned-with-moon-sun-cycles/" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn how to use Moon Cycles</a></strong> in your life.</p>
<h3>🗄️ Data Metrics (New in 2.2)</h3>
<p>LifePress now supports custom data metrics, allowing you to go beyond simple journaling.</p>
<p>Create unlimited custom fields and attach them to journal entries to track meaningful data alongside your notes.</p>
<p>Supported metric types include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Text fields</li>
<li>Checkable (yes/no) fields</li>
<li>Multiple selectable values</li>
</ul>
<p>Perfect for tracking things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mood, energy, or focus</li>
<li>Habits and consistency</li>
<li>Health, fitness, or learning progress</li>
<li>Any personal or professional metric that matters to you</li>
</ul>
<p>Your journal becomes a living dataset of your life.</p>
<h3>🏆 21 days to make a change in your life</h3>
<p>Research suggests it takes around 21 days of consistent effort to form a habit.</p>
<p>LifePress provides a powerful way to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Record daily practice attempts</li>
<li>Visually track streaks and breaks</li>
<li>Reflect on when you started, paused, or recommitted</li>
</ul>
<p>Whether you’re building a habit, learning a skill, or healing through consistency, LifePress makes progress visible and honest.</p>
<h3>💪 Own your personal Journal Data</h3>
<p>Your data stays fully under your control.</p>
<ul>
<li>All entries are stored in your own WordPress database</li>
<li>Journals are private by default</li>
<li>Each user only sees their own LifePress calendar</li>
<li>No external services, no data harvesting</li>
</ul>
<p>Your life data belongs to you.</p>
<h3>🌐 Business Applications</h3>
<p>LifePress is also ideal for organizations and professionals who want to empower people through self-tracking:</p>
<ul>
<li>Life coaches</li>
<li>Fitness instructors</li>
<li>Therapists</li>
<li>Educators</li>
<li>Wellness communities</li>
</ul>
<p>Users record daily entries privately, while admins can support and guide progress — making LifePress a powerful accountability and growth tool.</p>
<h3>🚀 Future Plans!</h3>
<p>LifePress is actively evolving, as we too use it daily for our personal journalling. Next we plan to add: List View and Lifespan/ long-term timeline view.</p>
<p>Have ideas of feature requests? — Please let us know via support forum!</p>


LifePress

You are the creator of wonderful events in your life. Record and track progress of your life events with LifePress.

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