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DailyNomie Meditate Plugin Update

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This week I was approached by a user of the Meditate Plugin who was asking me if I could include an option so that users can add their own meditations to the prefilled library of the Plugin. I actually thought this was a very good suggestion.

So as of version 1.1, which is now available, this option is included. I have updated the documentation to reflect this new feature: 🧘🏽‍♀️ Nomie Meditate

DailyNomie Sync Bug

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Last week I released the DailyNomie Sync Service. While this service had some small bugs, causing some users no being able to register, the Nomie app itself appeared to have a larger bug in combination with the CouchDB sync option. In some cases the sync option in combination with a network hick-up was causing a situation where nomie ‘lost’ its connection with the PouchDB database. Although it looked like all data was gone, in fact only the connection to the local database was gone. A restart of the Nomie app was the only solution.

It took me some time to find out how I could catch the situation in the code, but finally I was able to have a solution in place. It is part of Release 6.2.4a.

DailyNomie Sync

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I am excited to announce that I have created a service which will let you sync 🔄 your Nomie data between devices. You can use it for free!

Some background…
Syncing your Nomie data between devices has always been possible. As part of Nomie5 you could choose between a Blockstack solution or a self hosted CouchDB solution. With the introduction of Nomie6-oss the Blockstack solution is not available anymore and the self hosted CouchDB is the only way to go.

Setting up your own hosted CouchDB server is possible and there are some instructions available on how you can achieve this:

1 How To Install CouchDB on a Synology with self-signed certificates
2 https://geek-cookbook.funkypenguin.co.nz/recipes/nomie/

The reality is that most of us do not have the ability to get this successfully done. Because I believe in the power of Nomie and I would like to have other people also enjoy Nomie to its full potential, I have created a DailyNomie Sync Service which will let you securely sync your data via a CouchDB instance which I will maintain for you.

The only thing you have to do is to

1. install the sync plugin within Nomie
2. register for the service in the sync plugin
3. receive your credentials in your email
4. use these credentials to logon to the DailyNomie CouchDB service
5. start syncing between devices

Please follow the instructions as decsribed in the Plugin documentation: 🔄 Nomie Sync

Have fun with it!

Regards,
Ronald

Why DailyNomie?

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Since ❤️Brandon Open Sourced Nomie, there was no other option for me to maintain it… I just need it.

Everyone else is still invited for the ride

Some background…
It must have been somewhere in the summer of 2019 that I started to drown myself in the Stoic philosophy. While practicing the learning’s from the numerous books I read, I felt the need to track and quantify how these practices affected my daily life. As an experienced long distance runner I was used to collect all kinds of data. Unfortunately that data was scattered over multiple apps (vendors) and difficult to correlate. My stoic journey introduced more data-points, for some there was not even an app to collect them.

Just imagine my excitement when I discovered Nomie, which quickly became the central tool where I routed all my data to. Nomie became my personal data ledger. While ❤️ Brandon Corbin kept developing Nomie, we got in touch with each other which let to some additional Nomie functionality, of which the Plugin functionality appears to be the most useful. I created a hand full of plugins for Nomie, but unfortunately Brandon had to shift gears and decided to dedicate his time to other great projects.

That was the moment -beginning of 2023- where Brandon gave Nomie as a gift to the Open Source community.

As Nomie proved to be so beneficial on my Stoic journey I decided to adopt this Open Source project as one of the contributors & I further developed multiple Nomie Plugins to extend its usability.
Next to some personal stories, this website will contain tutorials, guidance and best practices to use Nomie.

It will also contain
– the latest Nomie version to install
– a Nomie 🪝API Server, free to use
– a Nomie ⌚️Apple Watch app and related API Server, free to use

I hope you will enjoy and that we can keep Nomie alive.

I will keep on using Nomie daily, so this is my DAILYNOMIE

Regards,
Ronald

Privacy Matters

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No Accounts, no Google, no User Tracking. 100% your data.

We too easily hand over our personal data when using apps to track our lives. But read the privacy policies and you’ll learn; while your data might be “safe” now, when that company/product gets bought – so does your data. (Looking at you Fitbit and Google 😡).

It’s been our data that gives these companies their value. We need to take that value back, and Nomie can help.

Nomie want absolutely nothing to do with your personal data. Which is why Nomie is built differently. There are no central servers, there’s no Nomie account. Instead, your data is either stored locally on your device (make sure to backup), or in your CouchDB which only you control.

Happy tracking!