Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, June 15th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough

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Wordpress Parent Company automatic has acquired day one, a popular journaling app for Apple devices with more than 15 million downloads on the Mac and

iOS App Stores. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, quoting Tech Crunch.

The addition makes for an interesting expansion of

automatics now growing collection of online writing tools which today

include blogging platforms WordPress.com and Tumblr the latter as of 2019, when Automatic took the aging social blogging network off-parent company Verizon's hands for a fraction of its earlier $1 billion acquisition price.

Unlike Wordpress and Tumblr, which tend to focus on publishing to a public

audience, Day One's focus has been on privacy. The app offers end-to-end encryption for all your

journal entries, which can include text media and even audio

recordings. It has also offered advanced features like automatic backups,

auto import of Instagram posts, voice transcriptions, templates, rich text formatting, location history, and

optional printed books, as well as integrations with other platforms like Spotify,

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and more. With its addition to automatic, day one

will allow users to choose to publish

select journal entries to WordPress.com in Tumblr.

And soon, import content from either platform back into day one, too.

The app may also make sense as a way for existing Tumblr users to sync their private entries

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