When comparing Day Journal vs Joplin, the Slant community recommends Joplin for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop journaling apps for Linux?” Joplin is ranked 1st while Day Journal is ranked 5th.
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Pros
Pro Location and weather information added automatically
When adding a journal entry, your current location and the weather are automatically added to your memorys. When looking back this type of information can really give a sense of being there and giving you a full recollection of the time. Some apps do not add location or weather automatically leaving it up to you to add, Day Journal does this for you, so you never forget to add this.
Pro Easy data backup
Day Journal can easily backup all of your data to your mobile device, your SD card, or any of a number of online storage services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Your data will be stored in an encrypted secure 256bit password protected file. If you ever need to restore a backup, this can be done very simply.
Pro Free and Pro versions available
Day Journal is a full featured journal app that gives most of the features in the free version of the app. The Pro version of the app adds some features that some users may prefer, like widgets, usage statistics and the ability to add voice and multiple photos to journal entries.
Pro Offline access
Pro Open source
Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app.
Pro Encryption
Pro Cross-platform
Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Pro Supports file attachments
Pro Supports markdown
Pro Supports tags for notes
Pro Web Clipper
Browser extension saves full pages, clean content, or screen selections to new notes.
Pro Optional CLI interface
Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers.
Pro Supports multiple languages
English, French, and Spanish, Italian, German, Czech and many others.
Pro 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.
Pro Dropbox support
Can sync using Dropbox.
Pro Nextcloud support
Pro Timed alarm reminder for to-do lists
Cons
Con App no longer supported
The last update was in 2014
Con 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.
Con 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.
Con Gargantuan memory footprint
1GB+ of memory for taking notes.
Con Old school interface
Con Bloated
This project is suffering from feature creep and uses a lot of memory for a note-taking app.
Con 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.
Con Sync issues on Windows
No way to change account settings and sync easily corrupted.
Con 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.