I did have Day One but it drove me crazy that in order to edit I had to go out of my way to do so. I was writing as we kids were being herded into the church to pray. I recall I just happened to start a diary on the day JFK was killed. and the way they are set up you can get fairly creative. I do keep art journals and I really enjoy that. Well, I’ve always kept one but I’ve often wound up tearing the pages up. I just wish I had kept a journal for as long as I was inclined to do so. Writing helps me to vent, to organize myself too and I love it with a passion. Privacy is one reason I learned Spanish and even there I have to fiddle with it a bit to make it less obvious. My main concern use to be keeping my writings private which was non-existent, impossible when I was growing up. The very quality of the journal changes once you go digital. Searching those in DEVONThink is sheer pleasure!)
(I should perhaps say that I have 18,000+ individual journal entries. The joy of all of that is that I’ve added many more photos to my journal entries in DEVONThink than I ever did in Day One (because of fear of encumbering sync) and (above all) the infinitely better search facility in DEVONThink than the paltry, slow search offering in Day One. I then use AppleScript within DEVONThink to replace any Day One links (i.e., cross-references to other journal entries) with DEVONThink links and to convert (manual-because Day One tags don’t export when using markdown export) hashtags to hidden markdown metadata (which displays the tags in DEVONThink but removes the original ugly hashtags). Pretty much the entire procedure is automated by Hazel and a DEVONThink smart rule. I export regularly as markdown (which works well) and import into DEVONThink.
#Macjournal alternative mac#
I’m now using Day One on my Mac more or less exclusively. I was grandfathered with a “Plus” account but after horrible recent sync problems I deleted my account. And in the long run, open solutions with no proprietary databases might be a good idea. Given the fact that every app eventually will come to an end (my opinion), a journal might be a tough use case for any app: it is important to be able to get the data exported if necessary. Then again, apparently Dan Schimpf really loves his “baby” and he seems to do anything he can to keep it alive. And as of now there is no app for iDevices. My issue with the app: I am not so sure about its sustainability.
The developer apparently has the intention to get “the iOS app back on the App Store with syncing functionality intact”. At this time, it is only available on MacOS. The app celebrated its 20th Birthday just this summer. It still is in development and there seem to be frequent updates: Eventually they lost interest and the app went back to Dan Schimpf again (as a “free” app since its return to Dan Schimpf). So, no, I am not familiar with MacJournal v7. I am not writing any journals these days.
Yes, there was a time when I actually did use MacJournal.
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