Just recently daily journaling application Day One transitioned to a (kind of expensive) monthly subscription model, charging a yearly fee to use and maintain your records within the application. And considering the entire purpose of the application is to maintain a long-term archive of your daily life, such a subscription fee could rack up major charges over a lifetime of use. It’s left many users seeking Day One alternatives for Mac. We’ve scoured the web for worthy replacements and come up with the list below.
Evernote While is far from a dedicated journaling application, it contains many of the features you’ve come to expect from Day One. Rich text is fully supported, as are audio, images and even video. You can create multiple journals and edit them on a Mac and iOS application or use the web interface if you don’t have access to the apps. Is a lightweight journaling application for the Mac. It ties together what are essentially TextEdit files attached to calendar days.
But for being fairly simple at its core, it contains a surprising list of features. It’s the only app on our list to support iCloud syncing to an iOS companion app, and the location for every entry is recorded in an attractive map. Entries can also be associated with contacts, user tags, emotions and ratings for sorting and searching. You’ll need to make a one-time $5 payment to unlock unlimited entries. Conclusion If you’re willing to give it a try, Evernote is an excellent daily companion. But if that rubs you the wrong way, Journey is flexible and inexpensive.
It supports a variety of media and reminds you daily to make entries. However, the only thing holding it back is the lack of an iPhone app. If you need iPhone support, check out MacJournal or Reminisce.
Boy, there are a lot of writing applications on the market now. In addition to ( ), there are word processors that specialize in handling foreign languages (, ), others that specialize in page creation (; ), and apps that you can use in your web browser. Then there are basic text editors, advanced text editors, idea management tools, screenplay-writing applications, notetakers, desktop blogging applications, simple writing tools that emphasize attractive font design, outliners, scrapbooks, and many other genres that I’m forgetting.
One way to describe the landscape is to say there is something for just about everybody. Another way to describe it would be to say there are way too many options. ( link) offers a remarkably good compromise.
Journal Software Review
It isn’t trying to replace Word, at least for business or academic purposes: MacJournal doesn’t offer change tracking, footnotes, endnotes, or indexing. It’s not a really a page editing tool, either, or an outliner. Nevertheless, as a writing tool, it is pretty versatile and generally capable. As a way of organizing or managing your writing, it may be without rival. MacJournal is usually categorized as “journal” software.
There are plenty of folks who do need to keep daily journals, either for personal or business reasons. But MacJournal is a much more generally useful tool and a broader description might be appropriate, say, a personal writing organizer. Personal tool MacJournal is a personal writing tool. It’s not designed for the kind of collaborative editing that you can do with Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
You will do the writing on your own. And if you want to keep your thoughts to yourself, MacJournal makes it easy, by allowing you both to password protect and encrypt your journals and entries.