![]() I’d use that for my saved search.Have you ever kept a journal or diary? For writers, it's almost a given that you're going to keep a personal log of what you do during each day, how you feel, or interesting things that might create that prize-winning book some day. The developers did note that a tag browser is one possible feature that may be forthcoming. Tags are helpful during searches and I’d like to have frequent search terms saved. One personal thing I would like to see is a saved search function similar to OmniFocus custom perspectives or an iTunes smart playlist. The tags are great for searches but I can usually find a keyword in Agenda with the search function. There might be the odd time where I might tag something but it’s been rare. When I do complete certain tasks related to an event, I can mark the note as done and file it away. I can mark certain notes as done so that it’s not on my “Today” agenda. I can record project progress and meeting notes easily for each project. I can associate them with an Apple Calendar event if needed. We don’t have to use every feature that an app provides.Īgenda is timeline based note entry and I can keep each note inside different projects. I’m sure when you’re ready to use tags, you’ll find it useful. Doing a search doesn’t really require tags. I do have separate Agenda “projects” that represents a journal. Do you use them at all in Agenda as a journal? I think I need to start adding something where I’ve never ventured before: tags. Thanks, Stephen! I find your post so encouraging. Have you checked Agenda out at all? The UI is gorgeous. Would you have any idea how to do that? The only thing I dislike about Agenda is it is not password protected. I used Day One for years and I want to migrate into Agenda. I suppose that step is to prevent accidental erasures. ![]() Once they went to subscription and wasn’t using the Cloud I started using Agenda mostly. 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. 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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