Mindlessly browsing the internet about a week ago I stumbled across ohlife.com. Oh Life is a Web 2.0 app but is unlike the majority out there. It’s an online personal diary thats PERSONAL, no one ‘likes’ your entries and no one comments on them because they cant even see them. This is a reversal of the current ‘social’ trend where your information is there to be shared with the world and I’m quite glad of it. Sometimes I just want to keep a log of what I have been up to without others reading about it. This is why I have never used Facebook ‘notes’, even though there are millions of granular privacy controls I can set I just don’t want to have to do that. Its as tedious as setting file permissions for a server admin.

I love the way you ‘post’ on oh life, no need to go to the effort of logging into the site and remembering to use it. Its done through email, you receive an email at about 8pm every day asking how your day went, all you have to do it reply with your response.

There is an option to download all of your diary entries as one text file so you can keep an offline backup which is nice especially if you become a regular diary user.

I hope we see more ideas like this popping up where the online service isn’t about being social and sharing, sometimes I’m just not feeling social and sharing!