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BlogHead of Product Ethan Cole shares how ViviDiary designed its iOS 27 Dynamic Island integration—including what we built, what we killed, and why we rejected voice-first AI journaling.
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BlogWe dug into our retention metrics to answer a frustrating product question: why do users abandon habit trackers after two weeks? Here are the design flaws we found, and how ViviDiary's modular approach fixes them.
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BlogWhy ViviDiary disabled system-level AI writing tools in our core mood logs to protect the raw authenticity of your emotional tracking.
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BlogIntegrating with Apple Health's State of Mind in iOS 27 forced us to make a hard product choice. Here is why we sync your mood emojis but keep your text in our secure cloud.
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BlogAs wellness app fatigue peaks on TikTok in Summer 2026, our Head of Product explains why ViviDiary rejected the bloated AI-diary trend in favor of 3-second, modular emoji logging.
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BlogAs wellness tools fight for your screen time, we took the opposite approach. Here is why ViviDiary uses anti-attention design to get you in and out in 3 seconds.
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