The Amazing MacJournal

Granted that this post is quite a deviation from my usual, I promise it to be well worth it…

I had taken a journaling course fairly recently and though I love paper products and writing into a tangible journal (whether homemade or not), I figured that a digital journal for Apple users would suit my needs best. After a week of research, I concluded that MacJournal by Mariner Software might be just the program for me. I was so impressed with the free 15 day trial that I just purchased the MJ download this morning so I thought I’d share this discovery with you. Here are some of the highlights I love about the software:

A variety of icons to mark your entries and journals with the option to use one of your own.
Add a mood e.g. happy, so-so, etc. to your entries.
Sort your journals by topic, date, mood, content size, and more.
Use the Statistics Menu to view words, characters and lines in an entry.
Timer to monitor yourself.
Select the Timeline Mode to view your daily writing activity chronologically or the Calendar Mode to see your entries by month and year.
A Full Screen Mode to give you a full writing landscape for all your thoughts, choosing your own color background, and your own color of type.
Privacy and public settings
Your MacJournal entries can be published to any of the popular blogging services such as Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr, and more.
MacJournal is equipped with two-level security – password protection and AES-256 encryption.
As for mobile journaling… it’s available for iPad & iPhones =)
It’s reasonably priced though you will have to pay for updated versions like most other programs
Local info storage versus remote storage