MyDiary

Genre: Application

Players: 1

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Review:

MyDiary is an Application released on the Nintendo DSi via the DSiWare service in 2011 and then grandfathered into the Nintendo 3DS eShop when that system was released. As you might guess, MyDiary is an Application that lets you use your Nintendo DSi/Nintendo 3DS as a Diary.

This application is used in “book mode” with your Nintendo 3DS turned sideways, and players can use their touchscreen to select a date on the calendar and write or draw whatever they want in that page, which they can alter to look blank, lined, or like graph paper. You can even put a PIN lock on entries so only you can access them, you can set alarms, and if you can any of the MyNotebook applications, you can unlock additional customizations.

So… all of that probably looked really appealing when this title was released over a decade ago. But now most of us have these things called smartphones, and we can use them to write or draw whatever we want, keep dates stored on calendars, set an alarm, set a PIN number so only we can access them, or even customize them how we want.

Yeah, when all of us already have a device that does all of this stuff and far, far more, it’s hard to see much value in MyDiary at this point. Unless you want to get your Nintendo 3DS to do a small fraction of what your smartphone can already do, skip this one.

tl;dr – MyDiary is an Application that lets users turn their Nintendo 3DS into their own personal digital diary. The problems is, these days everything this software does is now done even better by the smartphones most of us already own. As such, it’s hard to see much a point to this software.

Grade: F

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