Journaling made easy
This app has made capturing moments and thoughts so easy. Best of all it’s free, secure and your own space forever.
Feature missing
Nice idea and app.
The vest on that app is to use it for travel. 👍
Well I am missing some bits and pieces:
(1) I like to have an export to PDF where I can choose the period I like to export.
(2) I like to have the photos embedded in the text or a count or number to each photo so I can refer to in my text.
(3) Having a template option of filling out a kind of form would be appreciated as it could speed up some text entering.
(4) Get location link in the text would make it easier in the future to find that location in maps.
I hope I could benefit on more features in the future like the above mention ones. 😉👍
Thanks in advance.
Cheers Michael
Traveling New Zealand now.
The vest on that app is to use it for travel. 👍
Well I am missing some bits and pieces:
(1) I like to have an export to PDF where I can choose the period I like to export.
(2) I like to have the photos embedded in the text or a count or number to each photo so I can refer to in my text.
(3) Having a template option of filling out a kind of form would be appreciated as it could speed up some text entering.
(4) Get location link in the text would make it easier in the future to find that location in maps.
I hope I could benefit on more features in the future like the above mention ones. 😉👍
Thanks in advance.
Cheers Michael
Traveling New Zealand now.
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I love this app (pros and cons included)
(Pros) I love this because of 5 reasons, 1 I love talking to people but when I wanna be in bed I just use this app. 2 it’s very high quality and it correct your typing. 3 I love how it is and it makes it very organize. 4 I love that u can put videos or pictures of your day and music, and the voice thing. 5 I love that the app lets you pick if u want a notification or not . (Cons) there are 5 cons I don’t like about this app. 1 when u put on a notification it notifies you every day and it’s sooo annoying. 2 when I correct you for a other word then u have to fix it again an again. 3 sometimes the glitches and u have to fix everything you wrote. 4 sometimes if your when you want to right in the journal but your lazy like my your voice thing doesn’t work and it only doesn’t work on this SPECIFIC APP ITS SUPER ANNOYING. 5 sometimes you have to be careful when you scroll down because you might delete one of your notes. Hope that’s useful ♥️✌️😁
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Almost perfect…
I’m starting to base my reviews on how well things do at their basics and how close they are to perfect. If there’s just one thing missing from perfect at the time of my review, then it gets a 4/5.
Apple Journal is absolutely fantastic if you’re open to the features that it has. First things first. Everything is searchable. And they are premade categories. While #Tags aren’t official in Journal, they are still searchable. That’s really all you need to make this a productivity system if you really wanted to. You can copy and paste transcripts within journal too, which is awesome.
This isn’t the big feature missing that I want to talk about, but you have the ability to categorize by music and podcasts that you can add from Apple’s respective apps, but for some reason you can’t categorize by links you copy in from Safari. I feel like given all of the other categories, this is something that just makes sense.
All that being said the one thing that I think is missing that I feel would work phenomenally well here is the ability to add transcripts from sounds in videos into Journal entries. While it isn’t necessary per se, I think it would be a nice feature. This also gives the speech the ability to be searched since it is in text form as well. There is even a use case for it when it comes to making content.
Given all of that, it’s something that I feel like would be really native to the Apple Journal and the ecosystem in general.
Apple Journal is absolutely fantastic if you’re open to the features that it has. First things first. Everything is searchable. And they are premade categories. While #Tags aren’t official in Journal, they are still searchable. That’s really all you need to make this a productivity system if you really wanted to. You can copy and paste transcripts within journal too, which is awesome.
This isn’t the big feature missing that I want to talk about, but you have the ability to categorize by music and podcasts that you can add from Apple’s respective apps, but for some reason you can’t categorize by links you copy in from Safari. I feel like given all of the other categories, this is something that just makes sense.
All that being said the one thing that I think is missing that I feel would work phenomenally well here is the ability to add transcripts from sounds in videos into Journal entries. While it isn’t necessary per se, I think it would be a nice feature. This also gives the speech the ability to be searched since it is in text form as well. There is even a use case for it when it comes to making content.
Given all of that, it’s something that I feel like would be really native to the Apple Journal and the ecosystem in general.
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Depression helper
I’ve found through the last 15 years of living through ongoing depression that getting thoughts out and written down and being occupied is a huge weapon against stemming the incoming tide of depression.
Doing it on my phone has helped immensely through JOURNAL as I’m usually fighting my mind too much to pick up a diary and write down my expressions.
Great Apple update.
Thanks so much.
Doing it on my phone has helped immensely through JOURNAL as I’m usually fighting my mind too much to pick up a diary and write down my expressions.
Great Apple update.
Thanks so much.
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Reflections.
I find it a marvellous help to grounding my thought. As a free-lace artist and author recovering after the grief of losing my wife to dementia after nursing her as her sole carer for ten years, the Journal is both a lifeline and a working tool to me. I am sad that it is not available on my MacBook Air or my iPad Pro, and don’t really know why that is. In any case it is one of my go-friends to help me stabilise and organise these later days of my life. I am 82, and I see the world please God, on the threshold of a great technical revolution. I grew up on another plant. I was taught to write using a rusty mil dipped in diluted grey ink after the war and now we are in the AI and info-Space age, so thank you for providing this tool.
Dr Edward F H Chisnall.
Dr Edward F H Chisnall.
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Good journaling app
It’s good. Would be great if this app was made available for iPad & Mac as well, so I can access across all devices.
Peace
Life decisions it is easy to walk through life and only think about yourself. But once you take time to truly think about life and the people in your life. It all start to come together when you sit down and write about your true feelings.
This journal keeps send me reminds to write something about my day. At first I would ignore it but now I’m starting to enjoy capturing my thoughts and keeping a log of the things that are truly important to me in my life. There are people you think about doing your day but you never call them and let them know how you are feeling or thinking about a situation. Maybe one day there will get a chance to see or read your journal and know they were in importing part of your life. I hope I will continue to capture my daily feelings in my journal so I will leave a history behind me that may help someone else deal with life events.
This journal keeps send me reminds to write something about my day. At first I would ignore it but now I’m starting to enjoy capturing my thoughts and keeping a log of the things that are truly important to me in my life. There are people you think about doing your day but you never call them and let them know how you are feeling or thinking about a situation. Maybe one day there will get a chance to see or read your journal and know they were in importing part of your life. I hope I will continue to capture my daily feelings in my journal so I will leave a history behind me that may help someone else deal with life events.
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An App That Lacks Heart and Features
At the time of writing, this Journal App offers a simple interface for daily journaling. You can write an entry and add photos. Thats it. It falls drastically short when it comes to offering the option of personalisation and customisation features.
One major drawback is that the app does not allow for customisable titles, stickers and designable backgrounds which greatly limits creative expression. Users who enjoy adding a personal touch to their entries—through unique fonts, colours, or title designs—may find the experience underwhelming.
Another issue is the lack of a mood tracker and a calendar to track said moods and patterns over time. Allowing users valuable insights into their mental health and allowing them to track it is an ever-increasing need. This is common in most paid journaling apps and must be integrated within the Journal App to stand out from the rest.
Another potential area for improvement is a habit tracker, which could be especially useful for individuals journaling to achieve specific goals, such as building positive habits or breaking bad ones. This feature would greatly enhance the app’s appeal for goal-oriented users when journalling.
Overall, this is a journaling app in the most basic of forms. It does not stand out but has a massive potential for growth to stand out if it improved.
One major drawback is that the app does not allow for customisable titles, stickers and designable backgrounds which greatly limits creative expression. Users who enjoy adding a personal touch to their entries—through unique fonts, colours, or title designs—may find the experience underwhelming.
Another issue is the lack of a mood tracker and a calendar to track said moods and patterns over time. Allowing users valuable insights into their mental health and allowing them to track it is an ever-increasing need. This is common in most paid journaling apps and must be integrated within the Journal App to stand out from the rest.
Another potential area for improvement is a habit tracker, which could be especially useful for individuals journaling to achieve specific goals, such as building positive habits or breaking bad ones. This feature would greatly enhance the app’s appeal for goal-oriented users when journalling.
Overall, this is a journaling app in the most basic of forms. It does not stand out but has a massive potential for growth to stand out if it improved.
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The best app every
I am young and I have anxiety ever since I had bad friendship issues starting in 2022. I had to go though counselling for this year and ever since I started using this app I have had these panic attacks and been more happy. I recommend this app for people who need to get their thoughts down and keep then private by locking the app.
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