Well it’s got nothing to do with cows, but yes it is a dedicated diary/journal app that is different to the Notes app.
Much like a physical diary/journal is different from a stack of papers.
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Hands-On With the New Journal App in the iOS 17.2 Beta
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Much like a physical diary/journal is different from a stack of papers.
… until it gets released. (Or you’ve got a Dev account for beta versions)
Have you noticed any negative issues with other apps or the phone itself after updating? I want to install it but it’s my main phone.
Not so far, but it’s only been a couple hours for me. (Hopefully that 17.1 polish is baked in. *fingers crossed*)
Journal crashed once when adding photos.
Found another niche use case for Journal: I have some guided meditation tracks in Music, the ones that help you visualize things. Well you always imagine something new when you listen to such a track, right?
The last one showed up in Journal as a suggestion. So if I really wanted, I could write up what I visualize, instead of just forgetting it afterward.
Being someone who believes in journals, I know that it requires a fair bit of typing. That being said why is it primarily being released on a device that is horrible to type on? I guess you could voice dictate, but journals can be a private thing so you're likely not going to voice dictate, at least not with others around.
I'm curious if the iPad version will run on MacOS. Wasn't it Apple who was advocating developers to develop iPad apps which will also run on Apple Silicon machines running MacOS? Maybe someone running the beta can tell us if it can be used in MacOS.
I will wait for a MacOS version before trying/ using it.
I'm curious if the iPad version will run on MacOS. Wasn't it Apple who was advocating developers to develop iPad apps which will also run on Apple Silicon machines running MacOS? Maybe someone running the beta can tell us if it can be used in MacOS.
I will wait for a MacOS version before trying/ using it.
Not giving up on Day One. Been using it for the better part of a decade, and I don't want to be prompted to include music choices, and responses to feely good quotes. Day One is lean and effective. I especially like pulling up the map to see where I journaled over the years. Brings back a LOT of great memories! It does exactly what I want it to do. If anything, I would love for it to have Apple Pencil support. There's something about missing out on the hand writing and sketching experience that I miss in these digital journals. Not a deal breaker, but would be nice to have.
Other great 3rd party apps that I prefer over Apple.... Fantastical (vs Calendar and Reminders), Dropbox (vs iCloud), and yes, even Microsoft Office (vs iWork). I am sure Day One will still be around for a very, very long time to come.
Other great 3rd party apps that I prefer over Apple.... Fantastical (vs Calendar and Reminders), Dropbox (vs iCloud), and yes, even Microsoft Office (vs iWork). I am sure Day One will still be around for a very, very long time to come.
I don’t see how I would use this any differently than Notes
I use Notes extensively but it frustrates me the lack of chronological structure which I feel Journal will support.
I'm genuinely curious about the utility of a journal app. How do people typically use it, and what's the main purpose behind it? Why not just use Pages?
Well if you’re really f*d up in the head like me, it helps from time to time to write things down and reflect, pretending as if you could ever figure anything out.
Does this work on a Mac at all? I'm sure as hell not typing much on my phone, I can tell you that.
I like a lot of the Health features but the way they're locked only into iOS is starting to seem like a big liability.
I like a lot of the Health features but the way they're locked only into iOS is starting to seem like a big liability.
No reason, really. Notes would work just as well. It's just a place to type and put the date down so you can (maybe) go back and see what happened.
Would like time stamp and weather condition data on every journal entries. (2:47 PM. Cloudy. 17°)
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Damn.. I'm thinking - since the Apple One price increase - I'm gonna cancel everything on my Premiere and subscribe only to 2TB iCloud now I need to stick to Apple Music as well. 😟
As a heavy DayOne-user for well over a decade, I hope this leads to sensible improvements of an app that has become a bit sleepy. Editing, filtering and searching are still not ideal, simple things that would really make «on this day» more useful. DO is a great app, just as Stoic is in other respects, and I hope it survives this Sherlocking.
That said, Apple could - due to the deeper integration into iOS - realize an App that goes beyond both as it has access to health, calendar, mails, photos, music, geodata, the mood tracker, sleep, your dietary info and so on. If you look at what Rise does with access to sleep data only, imagine what Apple could do with access to an almost holographic image of your life. Now add AI to this idea, reacting to the data, talking to you via the Apps prompts à la Stoic but smart, reactive, alive, like a coach or mentor. Apart from the sheer psychological bonus of keeping a diary, regular or with prompts, that kind of App could effectively become a personal helper, that intimately knows you, from the steps taken to the sites visited, could build a prognostic model (as Meta does for ads) and help you work on goals, daily problems, decisions, mental health, relationships etc.
It would be a personal computer. iOS basically has all that data (which makes me hope that the company never falls into the wrong hand) and this concept of complete integration of functionality like reminders, calendar,journaling,mood tracking, mindfulness etc into one App that works as a personal coach… the possibilities are mind-blowing.
That said, Apple could - due to the deeper integration into iOS - realize an App that goes beyond both as it has access to health, calendar, mails, photos, music, geodata, the mood tracker, sleep, your dietary info and so on. If you look at what Rise does with access to sleep data only, imagine what Apple could do with access to an almost holographic image of your life. Now add AI to this idea, reacting to the data, talking to you via the Apps prompts à la Stoic but smart, reactive, alive, like a coach or mentor. Apart from the sheer psychological bonus of keeping a diary, regular or with prompts, that kind of App could effectively become a personal helper, that intimately knows you, from the steps taken to the sites visited, could build a prognostic model (as Meta does for ads) and help you work on goals, daily problems, decisions, mental health, relationships etc.
It would be a personal computer. iOS basically has all that data (which makes me hope that the company never falls into the wrong hand) and this concept of complete integration of functionality like reminders, calendar,journaling,mood tracking, mindfulness etc into one App that works as a personal coach… the possibilities are mind-blowing.
I’ve used Day One for years And have updated it retrospectively. So added the date I started work, 50 years back And all new jobs, new cars, etc.
one of Day One’s features is “On This Day”. So it lists each of the entries for this day/month. Interesting to see where your mind was over the years as well as what you were doing.
Also, I enter a screenshot of the front page of The Daily Telegraph each day, so I can see what was happening “today”. I have those for every day for the last 5 years.
i would need to be able to import all that data for it to be a game changer for me.
one of Day One’s features is “On This Day”. So it lists each of the entries for this day/month. Interesting to see where your mind was over the years as well as what you were doing.
Also, I enter a screenshot of the front page of The Daily Telegraph each day, so I can see what was happening “today”. I have those for every day for the last 5 years.
i would need to be able to import all that data for it to be a game changer for me.
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Yeah... a bit too basic, though you didn't show us what the filter looks like.
Can you select a day of the week to view entries? See or have a calendar month view that displays which days have entries?
For me, in order for it to be any good, it must have the following features:
1. Tags - The ability to tag entries with a keyword. Filter entries by the tag. The notes app already does this well.
2. Calendar - It should log any appointments you have. Calendars can come and go from having different accounts. This would log all calendar entries from any calendar added to your phone. That way you can still search for when something happened even if the calendar account isn't synced to your phone anymore.
3. Weather - Log the days weather conditions, high and low temps etc.
4. Mood - Overlay your Health Mental Health data entries from Apple Health.
Can you select a day of the week to view entries? See or have a calendar month view that displays which days have entries?
For me, in order for it to be any good, it must have the following features:
1. Tags - The ability to tag entries with a keyword. Filter entries by the tag. The notes app already does this well.
2. Calendar - It should log any appointments you have. Calendars can come and go from having different accounts. This would log all calendar entries from any calendar added to your phone. That way you can still search for when something happened even if the calendar account isn't synced to your phone anymore.
3. Weather - Log the days weather conditions, high and low temps etc.
4. Mood - Overlay your Health Mental Health data entries from Apple Health.
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Not to be too morbid, but would there be a way that I could grant access to the journal contents to my wife etc when I die? Just wondering as you can apparently secure the journal with Face ID…