Collect - Photo Journal, Diary 4+

I’m writing a memoir about the last year and a half in which I was diagnosed with leukemia in a routine yearly doctor’s visit. It has been an amazing experience from diagnosis to remission. Unfortunately, I didn’t journal during it and I’m reconstructing the journey with this app for a visual reconstruction using its calendar view (it’s amazing how different photos are experienced when they’re presented on a month-at-a-glance calendar vs a list or gallery view), and PhoneView to download all my texts which I imported and sorted with Excel.

The third tool is My Wonderful Days. I am using this in a similar way to Collect except texts/conversations are presented in calendar view... very helpful in accurately recreating what I thought was an unforgettable experience. It is an unforgettable experience, AND having the details available is priceless.

I’ve been a big fan of this app since I first started using it in 2014. I use it as a photo collection diary. I take at least one photo a day. I have so many memories on this app and I love the feature of tagging my photos. I use this to tag my photos into categories. My one recommendation for this app to be improved would be if tagging bulk photos would be easier. Instead of clicking on the details on each photo during the draft picks of bulk photos, then clicking on each detail, assigning the tag, etc. I’d love the ability to tag a bulk of photos all at once. Instead of having to tag each photo with the same tag, which is time consuming. For example, I have 9 photos I upload for today that all have to do with my plant growing progress. I tag all 9 of these photos under the tag “plants”, I’d love for an easier way to tag all these at once, rather than having to click on the details of each photo having to go thru 4/5 steps to tag each photo.
Or maybe perhaps on the draft page when picking the photos there could be an icon button for “tag” next to the icons of “crop, details, remove”. The icon “tag” would be useful here making the tagging feature much easier and quicker to use in less steps.

I've been using this app for several years now to journal my favorite moments of the day. I absolutely love it! It is super easy to use and it keeps all my memories in one place. I have 4 kids, so it is easy to find something to post everyday. And if I forget, I can go back and fill in my missed days super easy. I can even tag the photo, which allows me to search posts easily. This will make it easy to pull up stuff for their graduation or wedding! 😜 It will even play a slide show of your posts which is fun. The only thing I wish I would add/change would be the ability to export all my posts into a photo book! That would be amazing!! Please add that!!