User can sign up on free trial for X number of weeks before committing to paid plan.

Various subscription packages/payment plans with extra features, helping people stick to their goals. "1) Free for daily writing for 1 month. 2) Writing and goals. 3) Writing, goals, and goal plans" - @haideralmosawi.

A tickler to remind you if you haven't written a post tied to a certain goal after XX days. Maybe gives a prompt to keep the goal "active", "archive", or "achieved".

Publish button doesn't work on Safari, and other weird Javascript rendering issues.

Streak now is fixed to one timezone, so if user travels or moves to a different state/country, user can change timezone setting but that might break the streak. Enhance the algorithm such that streak wouldn't break even with timezone changes.

List some users on either plan, list their reviews, link to their profile. Bonus: X number of people signed up today.

Ability to follow a user and get notifications whenever this user posts.

Ability to bookmark a post for reference later.

User can receive notifications from Lifelog admin regarding updates, bugs, writing reminders, or any promotions.

User can reply to another user's post. Both posts will show links to either post.

User can add on a new post to his own older post, to create an indexed series of posts as a collection.

User re-discovers old posts she had written, similar to Facebook memories. E.g. post you wrote same date last year/same day last month.

Content like Top Streakers doesn't change often and takes up valuable white space on home page. "That’s how it feels to see the Top Streakers on Lifelog. I just don’t care to continue seeing top streaks on the top of the community page as if it held some useful information, especially if they’re not changing. I propose we use that space for something interesting. Link me to posts that have multiple comments. Give me the weather forecast for a country I’ve never been to. Show me a gluten-free brownie recipe that won’t spike my insulin. Anything would be more useful up to and including white space.... put a button next to that sidebar area as well - and have it rotate between Top Streakers, No Streakers, New Streakers, Old Streakers, Top Streakers by Height, Top Streakers by Weight, etc." - @brianball. The sidebar could be used to show more ephemeral but useful/interesting content.

A page to consolidate and showcase all the numbers for Lifelog and the community. All leaderboards can go here, including Top Streaks on home page sidebar. "How many words have they written? How many of their ideas have been turned into features on the site? How many comments have they mustered on the bottom of their posts? Typing speed? How much time do we spend typing our post? How many times do we hit each key? How many letter As did I type and how many were capitalized? How many times will they click on a button? ...looking at numbers to see who’s winning, who’s playing, who’s getting results – that’s a great place to start a conversation - and having something more to talk about than the local weather is a great thing.... Some competition - that we can compete for." - @brianball. "Total posts written. Average word length of each post. Frequency of timing of posts, e.g., published in morning vs evening and which hours. Number of comments received on all posts. Number of comments made on other posts. Number of goals and posts written for each goal. Tags for posts, and frequency maps to see what we naturally write about." - @therealbrandonwilson

Regularly reminding user to work on and write about your goals, or create supporting goals and actions, if needed. "I realized that I need more details and other supporting goals to regularly work on. Having systems in my life will definitely help me tackle all the other goals in a better way and so I want to be reminded of how to achieve this on a daily basis. Include time to commit to each goal per week (maybe provide a timer for that). What do we need to learn? What tasks to complete? What milestones to achieve along the way." - @haideralmosawi.

Set a goal/challenge (e.g. write for 100 days straight), lock in a payment date, and if you don’t achieve it, the payment gets processed. Or "100 days for $100 promotion. Daily streak for 100 days and receive $100. If you sign up and don’t make it, you owe the difference into the kitty. For example, stop at 10 days and you owe $90 in the kitty." - @therealbrandonwilson.

Show notifications grouped together from the same post. Set to read for all within the group when clicked.

Ability to comment on someone else's goals, "give ideas, ask clarifying questions." ~ @brianball

User can view past version of saved drafts, so as to be able to refer to the past writings before "editing so heavily in a single document that you lose your original thinking." ~ @brianball

Maybe you can add life area tags to encourage users to think of the 7 life areas when writing (Spiritual, Intellectual, Psychological, Social, Professional, Recreational, Physical) ~ @haideralmosawi.

An onboarding process or writing prompts/reminders for goals, e.g. "Critique/Feedback wanted" tag that user can select before publishing, to seek feedback from others, be it for writing style or ideas. ~ @brianball

Inspired by draftin.com, user can toggle Hemingway mode on or off on the /write page. When turned on, you have to have to write continuously without editing. User won’t be able to go scroll back and edit until Hemingway mode off.

Inspired by https://stephsmith.io/open, user profile pages resemble Steph Smith's open pages highlighting goals, projects, books read, and progression bars and grids for other streaks.

A feed on the home page to show when someone joins Lifelog, wrote their first post, to welcome them. Can also have other events show up here, like reaching certain milestones or badges.

A timer to timebox how much time you wish to take for writing your post for the day. Can be countup timer to reduce stress looking at it.

On publish, show and log in database how much time it took to write the post. Data can be plotted over time to show how fast one can finish.

Show links on post to past posts from 1 month and 1 year, so that user can compare how he was feeling from a year ago.

Ability to publish direct to Medium via API.

Writing prompts that are generated from the user’s active goals, to help writers have ideas on what to write/update about.

A new streak to track if you posted at least a comment every day.

Show public roadmap of upcoming features.

Show public roadmap of upcoming features.

Like Buster Benson / Wait But Why's life in weeks format (https://notes.busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks). Imagine each post/goal and each monthly recap post being tagged to a grid of tiny squares, with each square representing a day/week of your life. So that you can have an easy overview of what you were thinking/planning, your priorities/goals, how it evolved, over your lifetime. And even look ahead and plan goals for each age (like how Buster plan to ride a motorcycle at 90)!

Securing navigation access for pages.

Improve performance and page load speed for profile page.

User have ability to sort and search the features on the roadmap.

Planner template for goals, for user to toggle goal status (ongoing/completed), add milestones, outputs, throughputs, actionable next steps. From @brianball: "What might be fun is -- 100 words -- about a Next Action: 1. Define some next actions, 2. Pick one, 3. Write 100+ words about an action you'll take. Eventually, learn to only bite off a goal big enough you can reach it with 100 words of explanation. If 100 is the right number, I'm not sure. -- but being able to accumulate progress + the clarity of thinking that accompanies it seems like a neat tool."

Allow users to tag their goals to pre-defined categories of goals, e.g. health, fitness, money. Borrow from life review frameworks like 8 forms of capital for inspiration from categories. Create a suggestion channel for users to suggest new categories. No user-generated goal tags to prevent duplications and noise.

Show the number of words written for each post. Show total number of words written for each goal. Show total number of words written per user, on profile & community pages. Show total posts and words written by the community, on community page.

User get notified whenever someone @mentions user in post body text. But no double notifications if the @mention is on user's own post or is following comments.

Show a menu of usernames when @mentioning while writing.

Search bar to search all users, posts, goals, hashtags on Lifelog.

Every #hashtag has its own public page, and the posts written for each #hashtag. For content discovery of similar topics across different users (unlike goals which are content discovery of similar content from one user).

Show a menu of #hashtags when typing # while writing on /write page.

Show a menu of #hashtags when typing # while commenting.

Unique SEO social preview images for every post page. "When I share a link to my writing - I don't want it to look like I'm promoting Lifelog." - @brianball

Monthly challenges might add a fun dynamic that helps us push ourselves outside our comfort zones. It could be a challenge to expand word count, write more articles, focus on a topic or engage in a minimum number of conversations. E.g. 7 days on a single topic, to go deep. ~ @brianball

Optimize site for readng and editing on mobile - tablet and phones. Fix goals menu overflow issue on /write page for mobile (by truncating goal statements and tweaking CSS).

Archived goals won't show up in the publish button list or in the Featured Goals list on home page, but viewable only to the user on profile page as a separate section (private flag idea by @brianball).

A "Critique/Feedback wanted" tag that user can select before publishing, to seek feedback from others, be it for writing style or ideas.

A progress bar that you can define for each goal, and being able to update the progress bar and text updates via a post.

Prompting questions to introduce users set better goals, e.g. introduce joy into their goals.

Twitter bot that would tweet at you if you forgot to write by a certain time.

A "remind me later" email form on the pricing page to let customers who are considering Lifelog remind themselves to come back to it.

Writing templates to help you write something structured, like say an annual review. Bonus points if you can create and save your own custom ones for regular use.

Rich text editor for editing a post on the post's slug page. Right now only markdown editing is available.

Night / dark mode for writing at night or in dark. Now available on the markdown editor /write page and rich text editor /compose page.

An auto-generated review your writings on Lifelog for the year. A modal popup will appear upon login during 30-31 Dec, showing key metrics and milestones.

Discover similar posts form other authors relative to the post you're reading.

Added time hop for "X months ago, you wrote..." on home page.

Added time hop for "One month ago, you wrote..." on home page.

Added browser-based spell check setting to rich text editor on /compose page - but caveat is spell check needs to be switched on in browser.

Added new confetti celebration modal upon login for those who achieved the following days streak of writing – 365, 100, 30, 7.

Added new profile badge and gold badge + confetti celebration modal upon login for those who achieved 1000 days streak of writing.

Added new forest with small river and birds sounds feature on writing page for a calm mood writing experience.

Added new rain sounds feature on writing page for a rainy day mood writing experience.

Archive your posts to Wayback Machine, a free public domain service to capture web pages as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. I've always felt the pain of losing my old blogposts when a platform shuts down, so building this was a way to circumvent the unknown unknowns of even my own product! The checkbox remembers your last checked preference so that you don't need to keep clicking it everytime you publish.

See what you wrote on the same day last year, on home page after login.

Export all your own posts, goals, comments, in Google Sheets and JSON format.

Upload images directly while writing, on both markdown editor and rich text editor.

Right-click copy an image on the internet and paste directly into the rich text editor.

User can have choice of editing text using a WYSIWYG editor. Preference can be saved as default.

A section in the right side bar on home page to showcase some of the free tools on writing on productivity made under Lifelog.

A button to screen capture and save a nice screenshot of your post.

A UI element to show that the words are being saved on write page.

Placeholder text on /write page shows goal reminders as writing prompts, to keep your goals top of mind when starting on a blank writing page.

Audible feedback of mechanical keyboard typing sounds to improve productivity while writing.

Add on more backups locations, increase frequency and redundancy. Use third party services.

A floating Markdown editor snackbar on the write page for easier Markdown formatting.

User can preview how markdown will be rendered on write page while writing.

A tweet button to post a tweet direct to Twitter.

Add an announcements banner or sidebar on the home page, so that users can get updates on the latest feature releases, or important messages like downtime, etc.

Allow users to upload their own profile picture/avatar.

Ability to toggle the status of a goal – ongoing, completed, or archived. Goals are set to "ongoing" as default when created, and can be toggled to "completed" if achieved. Archived goals can be goals that had been shelved or on hold due to changed priorities or circumstances.

User can edit/delete their goals

User can edit/delete posts, add/remove goals associated with a post retroactively.

A visual cue on login that shows you whether you had already written for the day or not. If not, a countdown timer till the cut-off at midnight.

Community page shows total post count for each user.

A metric for those who broke their streak but come back again and again. We have quite a few master streak-breakers in the community, and this might be great to celebrate their ability to bounce back, their resilience. Profile badges include Rebouncer (10x), Resilient (50x), Unbreakable (100x).

A page to consolidate and showcase all the numbers for Lifelog and the community. All leaderboards can go here, including Top Streaks on home page sidebar. Numbers shown include first joined, top streaks, best streaks, most streaks, most goals, most comments, most posts. This is but version 1 of the number page, more features to come!

User can edit/delete comments. Notifications sent to other users based on the comments get updated as well.

SEO meta tags for individual posts, so that on Twitter/Facebook, the title, content and author name will show up on the open graph card instead of generic Lifelog meta.

User get notified whenever someone @mentions user in comments. But no double notifications if the @mention is on user's own post or is following comments.

Show a menu of usernames when @mentioning while commenting.

Added a success/error snackbar message with fadein fadeout animations, whenever a comment is posted.

Fixed bug where notification is missing the comment content body text.

Fix bug where user gets double notifications for any comment on her own post that she had also commented on.

Notification counter on the navbar is not salient and easy to miss. For those seeing it for the first time, it just shows a number without context.

Start a developer's blog or "dev notes" about Lifelog's development journey. Geek out over the tech stack, thoughts on the approach and philosophy behind streaks, other metrics, public vs private posts, open call for contributions, and anything else that members are discussing or have questions about.

Leaderboard sidebars on home page to showcase members – top streaks, new members and featured goals.

User get notified whenever someone comments on a comments thread that he/she had commented on (in order to keep track of other separate discussions on the thread).

Every goal has its own public page, and the posts written for each goal.

A private account page unique to each a logged in user, showing user no., email, date joined, timezone and external link to manage subscription.

Every user has its own public page, and the metrics and posts written by this user. Currently profile pages are only accessible by the authenticated user.

List out all the goals (title and description) created by user in user's profile page.

Badges to celebrate writing milestones, e.g. 1st post, 1 week, #teamstreak 1 month, 1 year club.

User get notified whenever someone comments on his/her post. But no double notifications if the @mention is on user's own posts or comments. Notifications should persist because "I'm not the best with responding to my notifications right away so I always like to revisit them at a later time" ~ @andrewtsao. Unread notifications also have different color background and font to visually signal read vs unread.

Calculate streaks more accurately based on users' timezones.

When hitting browser's back button to go back to home page, the user returns to the bottom of the home page. Last scrolled position not saved properly.

Optimize page load performance for home page by lazy loading the posts feed. Currently it loads all posts. To set to ?_limit=30.

Prettier profile page plus all of your own posts in one place.

Added timezone-based datetime to comments, so that you can better orient yourself to the chronological flow of the conversation (like how we read the time stamps off our chat apps sometimes). Thanks to @therealbrandonwilson for the insight!

Clicking on a post on the home page main feed, the page hangs or loads very slowly. Caused by a sorting script looping over.

Placeholder avatars for users, using robovatars from Robohash.org.

Show public roadmap of upcoming features.

Display a comment count on each post, to quickly identify any discussion.

Always display word count on write page even without hover.