Essays, travel use case, and cleanup

Blog and distribution

• Shipped a batch of content to the blog:
  • Chat diary essay targeting “chat diary” (18,100/mo, +8369% YoY) and “whatsapp chat diary” (720/mo, +2100%). Angle: chat wins at capture but fails at…
  • Grief journal essay targeting “grief journal” (8,100/mo, +83%). Core point: therapists prescribe grief journals, but grief takes the energy a person would need to keep one.
  • Comparison post scheduled for 2026-05-30: Apple Journal vs deariary, targeting “apple journal app” (6,600/mo).
• Gave it a late push on Bluesky:

  Day One made me love journaling. Then life got busy and I stopped opening it.

  Six months of beautiful entries, then six months of silence. This post is about that gap and what we built for the months you don't write.

  blog.deariary.com/posts/2026-0...

• Light engagement there (1 like). Fine — just getting the rhythm going.

Landing page work

• Merged the Travel Diary use case across all 42 locales: feat(use-cases): add travel diary use-case page.
  • Integrations story: Todoist / Google Calendar / Swarm / Bluesky / Last.fm.
  • Sample narrative is a one‑day Lisbon trip — simple, concrete, easy to localize.

Open-source/maintenance

• Reviewed and approved 6 PRs across circleci-tools, bitflyer-tools, and irasutoya-tools; also cleaned up a handful of Dependabot branches. Routine care, but it keeps the lights on.

Quick metrics

• Repo stats mostly flat; deariary/frontend picked up +1 open issue.
• Social: -1 follower, following -4. No big swings.