Personal Diary (Journal) App

November 27, 2024

- Fixed: The app may crash on launch on certain older OS versions. - Fixed: The 'System' theme option under Themes may occasionally behave like 'Auto'. - Fixed: The 'Auto' theme option under Themes may take forever to reflect screen brightness changes. - Improved: Clarified the behavior of theme options, and that 'Auto' may not work on certain configurations. Other recent updates: - Improved: Loading all entries in a large journal is now up to 4 times faster, with up to 90% reduction in peak memory usage. - Improved: Search now displays a progress indicator, and you may now begin searching even if entries weren't fully loaded (you'll still need to wait for all entries to be loaded to have a complete result). - Improved: The app now automatically reduces its memory usage when your device is running low on memory (e.g., when multitasking with other apps). - Improved: For new entry defaults, automatic inclusion of mood and weather info can now be separately disabled. - Fixed: The app may crash on devices with limited memory when loading a large journal. - Fixed: The app may, in certain rare cases, crash when concurrently processing multiple tasks. - Fixed: The date range picker for journal exports may take an unexpectedly long time to be editable on large journals, even if they were already loaded in the Timeline. - Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts may not work correctly when your last interaction was not in the relevant view. - Fixed: The entry preview when using 3D / Haptic Touch may not show the correct entry while searching. - Fixed: The watchOS app long press menu may occasionally not show up, making certain options inaccessible. - Fixed: The watchOS app may fail to perform auto mood detection. - Misc: Updated app icon, dependencies, descriptions, and links.

November 20, 2024

- Improved: For new entry defaults, automatic inclusion of mood and weather info can now be separately disabled. - Misc: Updated app description. Recent changes in version 3.0.12: - Improved: Loading all entries in a large journal is now up to 4 times faster, with up to 90% reduction in peak memory usage. - Improved: Search now displays a progress indicator, and you may now begin searching even if entries weren't fully loaded (you'll still need to wait for all entries to be loaded to have a complete result). - Improved: The app now automatically reduces its memory usage when your device is running low on memory (e.g., when multitasking with other apps). - Fixed: The app may crash on devices with limited memory when loading a large journal. - Fixed: The app may, in certain rare cases, crash when concurrently processing multiple tasks. - Fixed: The date range picker for journal exports may take an unexpectedly long time to be editable on large journals, even if they were already loaded in the Timeline. - Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts may not work correctly when your last interaction was not in the relevant view. - Fixed: The entry preview when using 3D / Haptic Touch may not show the correct entry while searching. - Fixed: The watchOS app long press menu may occasionally not show up, making certain options inaccessible. - Fixed: The watchOS app may fail to perform auto mood detection. - Misc: Updated app icon, dependencies and links.

November 12, 2024

- Improved: Loading all entries in a large journal is now up to 4 times faster, with up to 90% reduction in peak memory usage. - Improved: Search now displays a progress indicator, and you may now begin searching even if entries weren't fully loaded (you'll still need to wait for all entries to be loaded to have a complete result). - Improved: The app now automatically reduces its memory usage when your device is running low on memory (e.g., when multitasking with other apps). - Fixed: The app may crash on devices with limited memory when loading a large journal. - Fixed: The app may, in certain rare cases, crash when concurrently processing multiple tasks. - Fixed: The date range picker for journal exports may take an unexpectedly long time to be editable on large journals, even if they were already loaded in the Timeline. - Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts may not work correctly when your last interaction was not in the relevant view. - Fixed: The entry preview when using 3D / Haptic Touch may not show the correct entry while searching. - Fixed: The watchOS app long press menu may occasionally not show up, making certain options inaccessible. - Fixed: The watchOS app may fail to perform auto mood detection. - Misc: Updated app icon, dependencies and links.

May 10, 2024

- Fixed: The image viewer may not work correctly for HEIC images on some systems. - Fixed: The image viewer now has dedicated buttons to export images. This was incorrectly removed. - Fixed: The export function no longer randomly resets the date range to export after explicitly set when entries are being updated in the background. - Improved: The image viewer now supports keyboard navigation. - Misc: Updated dependencies.

December 11, 2023

- Fixed: Hyperlinks and Strikethroughs did not save until other unrelated modifications have been done to trigger autosave. - Fixed: Importing photos taken directly from the Camera within the app did not do anything. - Fixed: Some users may have had troubles installing the app on the Apple Watch. - Fixed: Images may be stuck "loading" - they are caused by previously deleted images of which the app still thinks exists and is trying to load. - Fixed: Dragging and dropping images to export images out of the app, or copy images to multiple entries, may cause the app to incorrectly use low resolution thumbnails of the image. - Fixed: Images may flicker upon selection of an entry, upon autosave, or upon scrolling through lists or pages with images. - Fixed: Smart Search did not correctly account for search terms consisting of the day of the week (so searching for "Saturday" did not work). - Improved: Added more hints of Safe Mode and direct shortcuts to exit it. - Improved: Disabling image previews will now show a placeholder image instead of a blank space.

June 15, 2023

- Fixed: Storage Location preference settings may not update correctly after a background iCloud login update. This may have caused unexpected confusion as to why storage locations randomly switched. - Fixed: Journal Picker headers may not appear correctly on macOS. - Improved: Information about storage location differences of a journal are now clearer. The app also now prompts to automatically change settings for you if you want to access journals in a different location without migrating. - Improved: There are now double-confirmations for journal storage location migrations to prevent accidental migrations.

June 9, 2023

- Fixed: On recent versions of iOS, iPadOS and macOS and Personal Diary, there is a chance where you would frequently get scary iCloud access denied errors. This is because the system temporarily removed access to iCloud for whatever reason. It has now changed to a "waiting for iCloud access" indicator, which automatically dismisses once iCloud is ready. - Fixed: Some miscellaneous crashes that do not appear to have any reason should be resolved. - Fixed: Depending on luck, you may occasionally find a warning of an "unavailable" entry, which does not acutally exist. - Improved: Entries which have data load issues are now ordered beyond the latest entries in the list. - Improved: When you are in the Timeline and you have written data in iCloud in the past, but no data is downloaded (making the Timeline appear blank), and system configuration permits, the app will more aggressively poll for iCloud updates and refresh the Timeline in order to retrieve your data.

May 1, 2023

- Fixed: On recent versions of iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and macOS 13 (Ventura), the app may incorrectly assume all your diary data is downloaded from iCloud, and attempt to load them before the download is complete, causing extremely slow loading times in the Timeline. - Fixed: Some links in the app (like FAQ) were moved, and are thus updated. - Improved: The Data Availability section in Storage Location & Usage now shows an estimated percentage of data downloaded locally. - Misc: Removed legacy code and updated dependencies.

February 26, 2023

- Fixed: Page Curl Animations added tap-to-flip-page tap targets that conflict with button taps on images and text, making it impossible to edit text or add a new image in some situations. This is now removed. - Fixed: Strikethrough option was missing in recent versions of the app. - Fixed: Strikethrough and Hyperlink keyboard shortcuts were missing in recent versions of the app. - Fixed: PDF and Printing Export Cover Page might not be removed even if you turn it off. - Improved: For PDF and Printing exports, they might crash when merging large numbers of pages due to running out of memory. This is mitigated through transferring partial exported contents onto storage and improved memory management. - Improved: For PDF and Printing exports, you can now specify the starting page number, so you may merge PDF parts from the past outside of the app and do not need to reexport everything to get the page numbers right. Known Issues: - PDF Export may not work correctly if you have too many images. You will now be served a warning if you hit memory limits.

December 31, 2022

- Fixed: Mood and Weather cannot be removed if already set. - Fixed: Biometrics Unlock may be displayed even when it is not supported or enabled on your device. - Fixed: In some cases you might be able to "import" inline images into the text editor. Though it looks like it worked, the action isn't supported and it is not saved. The text editor will now correctly reflect this and not show inline images. - Improved: Closing the Journal Picker (available when Multi-Journal Mode is on) will now lock the app as well (if a passcode is set). - Improved: Entry data now internally tracks a version number, so future version incompatibilities can be marked with an appropriate warning. - Attempted to Fix: Personal Diary might crash on older versions of macOS.

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