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I've been using this application since Dan Stimpf created it at MacHack. When it was freeware I sent a donation to Dan for his college fund, because I found it so useful. It is hands-down my favorite everyday writing environment. It is the one application I have open all the time. If I have to grab a serial number from a web site, a photo from an album, or a bit of text for my teaching comments, MacJournal is the natural place for me to drop them. It works exactly as it should, and the upgrades over the years have made real improvements, often in unanticipated but welcome ways. A truly great application.

I didn't find this review very helpful. It didn't go into enough detail about the features of the app.

Also, under specs MacWorld gives the app's size as 27624276 MB -- that's ridiculous. Maybe 27.6 MB?

Anyone have any thoughts about MacJournal vs VooDoo Pad?

Thanks.

You do realize that all the "Cons" you listed have nothing to do with personal writing or journal-keeping?

Is there a 3-Con-minimum in writing for MacWorld or something?

I own a license for MacJournal, but I no longer find it useful. The ideal journaling app should help me capture my thoughts when they occur, wherever I am.

Ten years ago that would mean writing your thoughts on a laptop, but today it's hard to seriously consider an app that doesn't have a version for tablets or phones. It's sad that this application hasn't kept up with the times.

edwardrios, on 27 May 2012 - 05:30 AM, said:

I find this comment hard to understand unless I have missed something... I have versions of macjournal on both my iPad and iPhone as well as my iMac so I don't quite know how you can say 'It's sad that this application hasn't kept up with the times.'

I must admit having said that I am leaning toward Opus Domini at the moment as it is easier to use.

Leigh

Just read the Jan 2013 issue of Macworld in which this app wins an Editor's Choice Award! HOW CAN THIS BE? Just look at the reviews in the Mac App Store and start wondering what were the folks a Macworld thinking!!
Just look at some of the comments right here from an April 2012 review. This app is ancient in its use of technology. No cloud integration, no syncing across OS and iOS, and worst of all, $40.00 !!

@thelittletoad

MJ has sync support and dropbox integration. I have it on my mac and ipad and it works extremely well. icloud is a joke and certainly isn't a factor in my reckoning, much rather use dropbox so I can sync all my files not just those apple want me to!

The real benefit with MJ is that you can have multiple journals and smart journals. The Mac version has lots of functionality and the ability to tag everything is great. I don't like the inability to to use rich text on the iOS version or the fact that when you edit rich text on iOS you loss the formatting it had, but that will be dealt with soon with markdown rendering.

I used Day one for a while but it's lack of multiple journals and an inability to search through entries on iOS make it a non starter for me.

MJ full screen writing function is excellent and I must admit it's the only app on both Mac and ipad that I am happy to use for logging just about everything.

Although there are a plethora of text editing apps out there, being able to contain everything in one place that is extremely searchable makes MJ my tool of choice.