An OhLife Alternative

still here, still one email a night

If you kept an OhLife journal, you remember the ritual: an email arrived in the evening and asked how your day went. You hit reply, wrote a little, and that was that. It made journaling feel less like homework and more like writing to a friend who always asked.

OhLife closed in 2014. A lot of its journalers landed at Little Memory, which had been quietly doing the same kind of thing since 2011 — and plenty of them are still writing here, a sentence at a time.

The ritual, unchanged

The evening email still arrives. You still hit reply, write about your day, and send — about fifteen seconds, no app to open. Replying by email was one of Little Memory’s very first features, so it isn’t a bolted-on extra; the whole app grew up around it. There’s a page just about journaling by email if you want the details.

Your days come back to you

The other thing OhLife people miss is meeting an old entry again. That’s the heart of Little Memory too: it brings back what you wrote a week ago, a month ago, and a year ago, and reaches further back as the years pile up. Your sentences quietly become a little time capsule, and old lines have a way of returning on exactly the right day.

Still here, and planning to stay

Losing a journal home once is enough, so it’s fair to ask about this one. Little Memory has been running since 2011 with the same developer — the kind you can just email — and holds over 1,000,000 memories from over 30,000 journalers. These days the journal lives in an iPhone app, where your memories, photos, search, and backups all are; the email has never stopped.

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