OhLife: user how to

OhLife is an amazing journal service. I want to preface this post by letting you know that OhLife is completely free. It is really easy to use. You just tell it how often you want to write. Then on the days you told it to OhLife will send you an email and you simply respond.

So here’s how you get started. Simply go to the OhLife home page. Just Click Here.

Next enter your email address and “Get Started.” Create a password as prompted then you are ready to go. OhLife will send you a confirmation email. You can immediately start making entries by responding to that email.

Once you are logged in you can go to the settings, you can find the link in the top right corner of the page. In the settings you can change your time zone and choose to have a past entry included or not. I personally love having a past entry included. It takes me back and sometimes reminds me of something that I never finished writing about. (Like a 6 month car trouble saga.) In the settings you can also go to and change your email frequency settings. You can find the link to them in the right sidebar. You can choose daily or under the weekly setting you can choose specific days of the week. You will also notice the “never” option. That simply means you can choose to stop receiving emails. Your existing entries won’t be deleted and you can still make entries by logging in to the OhLife website.

OhLife allows you to attach up to one photo to each of your entries via an email attachment. When you view your entries on the OhLife website your photo will be at the top of your entry.

Once you have made a few entries you can view them after logging into the OhLife website. Your most recent entry will be shown after you log in. If you click the “past” link in the upper right hand corner you can view your past entries by month. You can also find “export” and “write” functions on the right side. The “write” button will allow you to make a journal entry. The export button will allow you to download and save a text version of your journal so far. Unfortunately, this download is only a basic text file and will not include any photos. Hopefully this changes soo and photos will be included, but there is no news on that front so far.

I am a huge fan of OhLife. It is a really easy way to start documenting your life. I encourage you to get started on documenting your life, it really isn’t that hard. After all, tomorrow today will be the past, so start saving your story today.