Well designed personal journal application
There are lots of journal apps out there but few of them are as well presented, thought out and a pleasure to use as viJournal.
If you're thinking of keeping a private journal that you want to keep from prying eyes but includes videos, music and photos, then viJournal is an excellent choice. viJournal takes the format of a good-old diary except this diary is very 21st Century in every way. It allows you to write entries under dated headers as a page in a diary does and then allows you to browse them chronologically. If you want to keep more than one diary that's no problem either - viJournal allows you to have several running at once. Alternatively, you can use what the program calls "Sessions" which means you can setup categories for each day and enter details within those categories within a specific day.
Along the bottom of the clean interface you have four buttons - one that pops out a notepad for random thoughts, one for dragging in images, a Drop Box for attaching multimedia and other files and a Library button to navigate through your entries. You can even drag iTunes marker tracks into viJournal so that you can click on the marker when you read back through viJournal and it will play the track you were listening to when you wrote it. In the Drop Box, you can record video from your iSight camera to add some more life to your entries or just take a photo.
There's much more to viJournal including integration with Blogger and LiveJournal, security locking and syncing with mobile devices that make viJournal a superb option for the personal diarist.
User reviews about viJournal
by Anonymous
Rubbish.
Its a disaster. I had been using this for 4 years on a daily basis. I had backed up all my diaries. About 2 years ago I had to format my harddisk and start off as new. The back ups I made do not work. I have 10 GB of diaries and no way of opening them. I have been trying on and off for the last 15 months to restore my backups hoping there would be a thread of people with a similar problem but I've seen nothing so far. I tried to contact the developer Jeremy whom I had spoken to before but the emails dont send anymore. His email address no longer exists. I am heartbroken to have lost all those journals I painstakingly kept. The least he could have done would be to have kept his email and helped the people who bought and supported his app when he was interested in it.
Pros:
It seemed like a great solution to keeping a journal
Cons:
everything is missing More
by Anonymous
Wonderful program, but no longer in development.
Excellent and have used this program for many years. Not sure what happened and hope the creator did not pass away, but this app for OS X and the app store version for iPad and iphone is no longer available. Quite a shame, for a great journaling program. Good things sometimes come to an end I guess...
Pros:
Easy to use
Has everything that is needed without unnecessary options
Cons:
updated for recent OS X versions, but still works
compatibility issues with newer OS X versions, but still works More