> For someone with circadian depression, their symptoms will change with the seasons, due to the shifting day lengths.

Most if not all Norwegians know this phenomena. Winter depression is considered a normal occurrence, starting right around this time of year.

I've started using SAD-lamps for this exact reason. I've used it every day from october-april for 2 years and it has benefitted me a lot. I don't feel as bad through winter anymore.

Any specific brand SAD lamp you recommend?

It's quite literally kaamosmasennus as we Finns call it.

Merely losing the sun behind cloud cover for an extended period of time seems to have an effect if not the quite gradual but rapid shortening of available daylight. When the weather reports start including how gray it is today, you know it's the season again.

Increasing your vitamin D3/D6 dosage and being exposed to bright blue light daily helps most people to get through the winter.

I would argue that this is not the same.

The one thing shifts the day length and disrupts the circadian more while the other doesn't give you enough light to produce vitamin b etc.

Interestingly I have the opposite thing (living in Poland) - seasonal summer depression, lasting until the darkness sets in. :)

Hitting me right now with the time change, and pitch dark at 6pm. It changes so fast every year.

Does something like sun lamps or vitamin D supplements help?

Yes it does.

Vitamin D has helped me as well as many of my immigrant friends tremendously when we moved from South Asia to Canada. Been taking 5000 IU for 15 years.

Happiest two years of my life were in Norway. Summers were way harder imo for circadian rhythm than winters.

Maybe it's different for different people?

Dia has a pretty hefty paid plan last time I checked, and so you will be using a browser constantly pushing you from free towards paid.

I will not switch to Dia, however easy they make it. Why?

Bacause I don’t want to be pushed towards a $100 per month plan where the «key feature» is an AI morning brief.

https://www.diabrowser.com/plans

Oh weird. I use Dia now and then and noticed my ability to upgrade vanished, but I still have access to all the AI features and the morning brief things. I just assumed the Atlassian acquisition made it free for everyone. Is that not the case? Do people here actually see a upgrade prompt?

/EDIT: I looked into this by... well, asking Dia:

> That fits what I described. You aren't on a plan because you haven't had to pick one yet. People who were using Dia before paid plans launched on August 17 kept the AI features for free, with nothing to choose and no card on file. Dia says it will email those users at least 30 days before that changes.

>

> So nothing's wrong. It just isn't permanently free either. It's free for now because you joined early. When the notice email comes, you'll have about a month to decide:

So I'm grandfathered "for now", but the Daily brief and AI features are so low value to me, I just assumed they're free for everyone because of how little they do. I never use the built-in AI in Dia and get annoyed when a query that I wanted to go to a search engine gets answered by the assistant instead.

Man that is a crazy price for an unimpressive list of features.

You can get Claude Pro for $20/month and if you hook it into a browser, I'm not sure what you'd be missing out on from those listed perks.

I mean I get the benefit of a prepackaged experience but not at 5x the cost.

I really hate this company and how they operate. Key example, they sold a «lifetime» plan for Day One that was quite expensive. I used it a lot and went for it.

After they saturated the market for lifetime buyers, they started launching new features not included for lifetime buyers. Annoying.

Then they started pushing advertising for upgrading. Very annoying.

Then they started taking away features lifetime plan users had already. Infuriating.

Then they made it so that support was only available for users on a subscription plan. My complaints weren’t even answered. Unforgivable.

Day One was acquired by Automattic in 2021 [1]. The move to a subscription model happened in 2017 [2].

[1]https://dayoneapp.com/blog/the-next-chapter-of-day-one-at-au...

[2] https://medium.com/day-one/day-one-goes-premium-424492fd0a5b

Yes, yet the bulk of my issues outlined in the post were after that.

Either they kept introducing even worse policies, or they allowed them

Relevant: https://www.spoor.ai/

75k per call. CAC is about to go through the roof

CAC?