1 Second Everyday: Video Diary

What is 1 Second Everyday: Video Diary?

It’s not every day that an app hits the market after some highly documented soul searching and a TED talk, but 1 Second Everyday’s reputation precedes it.

1 Second Everyday allows users to use 1-second videos they take to document their days and easily turn them into a longer video or videos documenting weeks, months and years. Many users say that the 1 Second Everyday app makes them live each day more mindfully, and they’re rewarded with a video capturing all of their days in the end.

Users upload up to two snippets per day, and have the ability to set reminders from the 1 Second Everyday app so that they never miss a day. Even better, 1 Second Everyday users have the ability to scroll back through the app to recapture memories and remind themselves of what they were doing on specific dates in the past. For those users having difficulty which video to use in depicting a day, they can use 1 Second Everyday’s auto-select feature, and have the app choose for them.

A snippet, in the 1 Second Everyday app, is an edited portion of an existing video on a user’s device. For example, in attending a birthday party, a user records a two-minute clip of the Happy Birthday song being sung for the guest of honor. In the app, the user can review their video clip, and choose their favorite second, frame by frame. Once happy with the selected moment, the user simply taps a scissor icon and that snippet is saved for that particular day.

For those users worried about remembering to record their day, the 1 Second Everyday app has different reminders that can be set. Users can choose from different time segments throughout the day (early morning, mid-day), or set up a custom reminder at the time that works best for them.

Once a user has accumulated snippets, they can opt to “mash” them into a video by week, month, year, or set custom dates to create. The finished result is spellbinding, when one realizes that each segment is a day in life, and the videos or movies the 1 Second Everyday app composes are as colorful as the lives of the users.

Ranked fifth in the App Store’s Photo & Video category, 1 Second Everyday has won the “Best Use of a Mobile Camera” WEBBY Award two times.