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Everyday Timeline
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Weekly backup
To Dropbox, Evernote, or email.
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Lacks support
Multiple reports of dropped features, unfixed bugs, lack of updates.
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Easy to use
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Imports data from external sources
From different social networks as individual entries on your timeline.
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Feature-rich
The app supports tags, multiple entries each day, passcode lock, reminders, a daily question, post statistics, weekly backups, synchronization, as well as adding photos, location information, and your mood to entries.
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Online account means syncing and web access
You can access your data from anywhere you have a browser and internet access.
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Has statistics
The application gives you statistics about your postings.
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Path
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Two-way social media integration
Photos uploaded to Path can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram, and Tumblr. Photos shared on any of these sites can be uploaded to Path.
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Spams friends
Path invites users to select friends to invite to their service. Once friends are selected, they are relentlessly spammed.
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Limits friends to 150
While many photo-sharing apps emphasize popularity, Path limits the amount of friends that can be added in order to increase personability.
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More than just photos
Users can also post music, movies, notes, texts, trips, check-ins, etc.
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The Dream Log
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Dev has not updated App to 64 bit
If you want to use this App forget about using iOS 11 (by far the most innovative OS for the iPad ever).
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Very stylized steampunk-themed design
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Exports to e-mail, PDF and Facebook
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Optimized for writing in the dark
The Dream Log is "chromatically calibrated" for low-light scenarios.
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Privacy lock
For when you want to be sure that no-one read your entries.
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Diarly - Daily Journal
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Can export your diary to PDF or Markdown
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Beautiful design
Diarly looks simple and beautiful. You can choose from many color themes or make your own.
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Supports password encryption
All entries are stored encrypted in the cloud for maximum security and privacy.
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Fair price
It has a fair one-time purchase price. This app won't cost a fortune if you write your diary in it for the rest of your life.
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Timestamps can be inserted
This can be used to mark the exact time of day different part of a diary entry was written.
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Has a Mac app
They sync via iCloud.
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Obsidian md
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Locally stored, not dependent on cloud
Everything is stored in your device. You can back them up, encrypt and process however you want to. Works completely offline. Read your notes anytime, anywhere.
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Closed Source
See related thread at Obsidian forum.
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Markdown makes for flatter learning curve
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Needs to be better at block level references, searches, tagging
For example, if you want a tag a block of text, for obsidian, its the whole page that will get tagged.
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Lightweight and very customizable
Variety of settings, and community themes & plugins, available from built-in marketplace. Every community plugin is open-source which means you can learn from it and develop your own.
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Proprietary software lock-in
Creates dependence on the application with the promise that the content is yours but that cannot be entirely true without the application being free and open source software. You will end up altering the way you create the content to take advantage of Obsidian features and your processes will evolve for its workflows. This replicates the lock-in pain that people experience moving their highly personal information from one proprietary platform to the next when that initial platform stops serving them well, goes out of business, or becomes a bad actor.
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Backlinking
This allows you to link notes back and forth really easily.
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Does not export to MS Word
Can export only as a PDF file.
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Fast growing
It's becoming more powerful everyday, it seems like they add many functions within several days.
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Requires .md files
Can't read .txt or other plaintext file formats. Can't read asciidoc files. (Available with a plugin.)
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Cross-platform: works on Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS
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No ability to add dates that link to a daily note, when that day/note may not yet exist
You can create a backlink which doesn't yet exist; it just doesn't auto-fill for you. (Available as a plugin)
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Very easy to use and link notes, preserves the standard form of markdown
Linking notes is a game changing feature. Very easy to use and link notes. Their implementation of markdown doesn't deviate from the standard form of markdown and so the same files can be used by other markdown programs without any consequence. While renaming note link still works.
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Too many plugins
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Multiple Vaults
A Vault in Obsidian is like a database. Internal links and files are not shared across Vaults. Each Vault is opened with a separate instance of Obsidian. Each Vault can have its unique app settings and plug-ins. Useful if you have distinct/unrelated projects or "data spaces" requiring different workflows and data relations.
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iOS version works only with icloud
Does not work with other cloud folders.
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In-line tagging
Ability to tag-as-you-write and find each occurrence of a tag in the entire vault makes it very easy to organize and retrieve notes. Supports nested tags.
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Needs to be polished
They still need time to fix some bugs.
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Infinite panes, split panes, lock panes
In Obsidian, pane = window = note = page Obsidian allows you to open as many notes as you can fit concurrently in your screen. You can split a pane horizontally/vertically. You can lock/link panes so they scroll in sync, useful for and edit & preview modes.
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V1.0 release is terrible
Don't download unless you can't find pre 1.0 version.
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Functionality extensions with a growing number of plugins
Also open for anyone to develop their own extensions/plugins.
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Daily Notes with template
Daily Notes plug-in, when clicked, generates a new note with the current date. Great for journaling and reduces friction in your writing habit. You can create a custom template for your Daily Note.
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Helps visualize personal knowledge in ways nothing else allows
The Graph view is more than an aesthetic gizmo. It allows you to grasp and recognise clusters of information, follow branches and easily filter out what you don't want to see. The "animate" option shows how your notes and links have grown organically. With a bit of tweaking to the visuals and the proper theme, your graph might even start to look like a disturbingly "alive", eerie thing.
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Random note
A plugin that, when clicked, surfaces a random note from your vault.
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Support for tags
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Readable as it hides the [[ ]] around links when in Preview mode
This is a big difference, as having to read through long-form texts laden with [[links]] gives friction.
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Slides for giving presentations from within Obsidian
Easily turn your notes into simple yet sleek powerpoint-style presentations by enabling the Slides plugin and adding the --- separator.
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Markdown rather than outline/blocks
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Keyboard shortcuts, Vim key bindings
Hotkeys can be customized in settings. Can switch on or off Vim key bindings in the editor settings.
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Great onboarding experience
The onboarding consists of well-written help documentation (saved as a vault) served in small chunks and organized systematically so that you become familiar with all its features as well as get hands-on experience in real time.
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Community of developers building themes and plug-ins
Due to the tool being very developer-friendly, there are tons of cool developments being made to it by 3rd party devs.
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Page previews on hover
When you hover on an internal [[link]], you get to preview the note without opening it on a new pane. Page preview plugin must be enabled.
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Intuitive and easy to use with an excellent help system built-in
The app doesn't frustrate the user - the built-in help is excellent.
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Embedding attachments, such as PDF
Variety of file formats are directly embedded in the markdown preview, e.g. markdown, image, audio, video and PDF files.
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Exporting as PDF
Allows exporting your markdown files as PDFs rendered with all of your plugins.
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Calendar
Daily and Weekly notes with Calendar Plugin.
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Graph view
A pretty, alternative way to represent links between your notes.
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Multiple cursors
A feature unseen in other tools. From the help doc, "This can be useful when modifying a lot of lines in the same way, for example putting - at the beginning of multiple lines to turn them into a list, or appending [[ to a series of links you’ve copied from elsewhere."
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Can copy search results and paste as lists and/or links in a new or existing note
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Advanced search
Supports extended searching by default. Community plugin called "Vantage" allows to make more advanced queries.
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Git integration
Version Control for your vault with Obsidian Git plugin.
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Aliases
Allows to refer to a note with multiple names.
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Big and helpful community
There's a Discord server and a forum. Join the community!
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Not locked to a provider
No lock-in to a certain company - just markdown files on disk.
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Mindmaps
Available as a plugin.
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Math
Uses MathJax.
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Templates
Allows to create templates with built-in plugin. There's also powerful community plugin called "Templater".
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Diagrams
Uses Mermaid.
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Linking to blocks
You can link to a block - e.g.: paragraph, blockquote, heading.
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Metadata
Add a custom metadata to a note with YAML front matter.
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Sketching
With Excalidraw.
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Academic citations
Supports Citations and provides inserting from Zotero.
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SQL-like queries
Advanced queries for the data-obsessed with Dataview Plugin.
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Workspaces
Saving and loading workspaces.
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Built-in Audio Recorder
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Folders and file level storage which is open to manage, does not lock navigation
With other options like notion, we can not see how the data is actually stored.
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HTML Support
Use HTML in a note.
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Incredible tool for PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) which allows anyone who has a computer and an internet connection to think better and create new insights
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Helps with planning and organization.
Variety of planning and organization plugins, such as Kanban boards or Day Planner.
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Supports importing from other tools
Supports importing from tools such as Notion, Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, Bear, Zkn3, TiddlyWiki 5, and Roam Research. Refer to Obsidian Help for more info.
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Supports several languages
Translations are made by the community at GitHub repository.
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Discord rich presence
Update your Discord status to show your friends what are you working on with Discord Rich Presence plugin.
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Syntax highlighting for code blocks
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Snapshots, file recovery, trash folder
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Copy and paste images easily
When taking notes, you can just grab a print screen from your clipboard and paste into the notes without having to do any file management
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android
API:
Beta
Collaborative:
Upcoming
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Journey - Diary, Journal
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Sync with Google Drive
Non-proprietary syncing, safe and secure.
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Pricetag
Membership and cross-platform premium costs are quite high for those who might be on a tight budget. Buying premium on all devices without membership could be costly.
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Multi-platform
Available for Android, Chrome, Mac, Windows and web.
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Beautiful and intuitive interface
Simple and easy to use
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Markdown Editing
Ability to use markdown editing such as asterisk combinations and underscore combinations, plus formats immediately so you'll never forget where you want to end your emphasis.
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Quiller
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Includes prompts and quotes
In order to help you with getting started on your entries the app includes prompts and quotes.
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Statistics
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Exports as text or PDF
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Skeuomorphic design
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myMemoir
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Not available in the UK store either. Only in the Latvian store!
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Exports to ePub, PDF, or txt files
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Limited availability
For instance, not available in Canadian AppStore
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Additional themes for sale
As in-app purchases.
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Video and photo support
You can add videos and photos to your entries.
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Multiple journal support
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Joplin
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Offline access
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Sync issues with Android
If update on Linux then sync on Android, sometimes the Android sync will duplicate or remove some journal notes. Seems to be a bug in the Android app. The Linux app alone without sync with Android seems to work well using Dropbox. But don't expect changes you make on Android to sync properly back to Linux.
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Open source
Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app.
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Sync issue under Linux
The Linux client has a bug that requires the user to click the mouse frequently in order for sync to proceed. This bug has been open for a while.
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Encryption
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Gargantuan memory footprint
1GB+ of memory for taking notes.
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Cross-platform
Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
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Old school interface
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Supports file attachments
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Bloated
This project is suffering from feature creep and uses a lot of memory for a note-taking app.
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Supports markdown
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App Image launches very slowly
On Linux, you can only install via App Image, which take 5+ seconds to launch. I can launch LibreOffice in under two seconds.
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Supports tags for notes
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Sync issues on Windows
No way to change account settings and sync easily corrupted.
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Web Clipper
Browser extension saves full pages, clean content, or screen selections to new notes.
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Weak tag searching
Joplin can currently only search for a single tag at a time. None of the boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are available for use in searches. This greatly diminishes the usefulness of tags in Joplin.
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Optional CLI interface
Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers.
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Can't create tags from the mobile app
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Supports multiple languages
English, French, and Spanish, Italian, German, Czech and many others.
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Active user forum with support from app creators
Support, troubleshooting, and new feature requests are easy to make at the user forum and you can contact the app creator directly.
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Dropbox support
Can sync using Dropbox.
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Nextcloud support
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Timed alarm reminder for to-do lists
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS
License:
MIT
Export:
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File System, OneDrive, Next Cloud, WebDav, DropBox, JoplinCloud, s3 (Beta)
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Capture 365 Journal
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Automatically posts photos and locations if I don’t have time to
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Couldn’t synch
I couldn’t synch, I couldn’t save into the cloud, couldn’t make an extra journal and ended completely disappointed because I paid and can’t really use it for anything.
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Multiple media types supported
Can attached multiple images and videos to each entry.
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Images way to small in entry page
The images in an entry don't automatically appear. You have to click a slightly dark button that tells you there are images in your entry. However, the images still appear small. If you double-click, the image appears large but the text gets covered.
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Local syncing
Can sync locally with WIFI and not use cloud services.
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Feeds are charged individually
You have to pay for each of the feeds that you want to import and you can’t import your photos from the roll with a date like in other more famous journaling apps.
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macOS app
Has a macOS app counterpart.
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Can’t see all the entries within a specific tag
And the service wouldn’t give an answer about this feature.
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Rich text formatting
Supports rich text formats. Bold, Italics and underline.
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Unreliable and buggy
It's still 'flaky', what you would expect from an app in beta. It sometimes crashes, thus unstable; it also freezes; it does not import, as yet. You are also unable to try before you buy. It has some work to do before becoming a quality app.
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Templates
Supports custom templates for quick insertion into entries.
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Location and weather support
Location and weather data is automatically acquired and added to entry.
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Feeds support
Can import from social media services and calendar such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Flickr.
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Cloud syncing
Can sync with iCloud and Dropbox.
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Multiple tags
Supports more than one tag for each entry.
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Multiple journals
Can have more than one journal.
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Momento
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Tagging system
Momento allows tagging people, places & events, as well as creating custom tags for better management.
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Absolute lack of support
Developers will not help anyone exporting data, and will not answer customers asking for help.
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Search
You can search through both imported and entries you've written yourself.
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Journaling and social in one place
Momento will combine both your personal journal entries and things you've shared on social networks.
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Passcode protection
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Chronicle
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No updates for the past several years
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Syncs via iCloud
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Backup via Dropbox
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Supports multiple journals & multiple entries in day
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Markdown formatting
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Passcode support
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Moleskine Journal
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Everything in one spot
Saves having multiple apps.
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Lack of instructions
There's some difficulty getting an answer from Moleskine.
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Innovative
Moleskine has unique and rarely seen features such as handwriting support, paintbrush, highlighting, color options, multiple notebooks that can be derived from different templates.
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Unresponsive to Apple Pen and palm rejection when using a small tip
This causes random signs and overflows of different line thickness.
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Paper styles
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Complicated interface - no page or word search
The interface is quite cumbersome; not as easy as Good Notes. If you need to find a page, there's no index or a way to search by word. The Page-Turn Assist works but as soon as you turn it off, pages are very hard to turn.
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Handwriting support
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Subscription based
For former users, it's $24.99 per year. For new users, current discount is $34.99 per year while full price is $49.99 per year.
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Effortless syncing via iCloud
Between iOS and Mac.
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Lack of DropBox and iCloud syncing
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Beautiful UI
Choice of color palette, icon glyph variety and animations create a design that is pleasurable to look at and does not get in the way.
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Cannot local sync between Mac and iOS devices.
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Easy to use
A high level of attention to detail, intuitive suggestions and automation of common tasks make this application very easy to use.
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No encryption
Data is stored in a plain-text XML file.
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Easy to to find old posts
With a good search and calendar view.
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Limited to one photo per entry
Currently, in both the mobile and Mac apps, only a single photo can be added to a journal entry.
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All the features you need
You can create more than one entry in one day. You have many styles and font choices. You can add photos, tags to your entries. Optionally, you can have pass-codes, reminders. You can opt to automatically add location and weather data. Search function built-in. Ability to export a portion or all entries to PDF.
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Lacks Windows or Web support
Day One has no Windows or Web support, which can be inconvenient. For example, if users don't want to write a long journal entry on their phones and only have a Windows PC available as an alternative, they are not able to use it as a more practical alternative to write said post, not even using a web browser.
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2012 Mac App of the Year
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You need to purchase two separate subscriptions to sync your iPhone and Mac
Read this from Day One Support: http://help.dayoneapp.com/day-one-2-0/how-many-licenses-do-i-need-to-run-day-one-on-multiple-devices
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