Momento

If you’ve ever thought about starting a journal or diary, but failed to because you just didn’t have the time, I have got the perfect app for you:  d3i’s Momento.  Do you have a FaceBook account?  Do you tweet?  Listen to Last.fm?  Upload pictures to Flickr?  Even better!  Momento will import your FaceBook and Twitter updates, any Last.fm tracks you choose to favorite (I know I violated a grammar rule or two just then), and Flickr pics into its daily logs so that you have a nice, on-the-go mobile journal or diary without doing anything more than what you’re probably already doing.

Of course, if you’re feeling a little more wordy, your journal or diary does not have to be limited to online status updates or tweets.  You can write more lengthy entries with Momento.  And you can rate your entries, create tags and mark moments, people and places as memorable so that you can quickly search and browse through them later.

Momento is an ingenious app and you can clearly tell that the developers put a great deal of time and thought into its details.  It looks great and works beautifully.  If you don’t want to import one or more of your online personas into the app, you do not have to.  For example, though I have a Flickr account, I’m not much of a photo guy.  If I were, the ability to import my pics through Flickr would be a valuable ability, one that would bring color and variety to my entries. 

d3i says that there will be some exciting updates in the near future.  I can’t wait to see what they are and begin using them.  There isn’t much I could think to add to this brilliant app, but a few enhancements do come to mind.  For example, the ability to write entries in landscape mode, ability to choose font size, or to import either links to or full texts of personal blogs would make this an even more outstanding app.

2010 is a brand new year and the beginning of a whole new decade.  Why not begin to record those special moments as they unfold with Momento?

Momento

Version 1.0.2

Reviewed on iPod Touch 3.1.2