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MacJournal

MacJournal - 5.1

Create a personal journal, record daily ideas, manage scripts and novels, or generate blogs.

All Time: (4.6)
Version 5.1: (5.0)
Selected Version: 5.1
Release Date: 2008-08-23
License: Shareware
Downloads (version 5.1): 1,732
Downloads (all versions): 2,836
Price: $34.95

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Product Description:

MacJournal is the world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh. Create a personal journal with two level security (password protection and encryption), record daily ideas, images, video, manage to do's and export them to multiple file formats, or generate blogs to any of the popular blogging services or .mac account. Even record audio and podcast! The modern day substitute for the pen and paper!

What's new in this version:

  • Added support for several languages.
  • Completed the .mac to MobileMe transition.
  • Added Karelia's Media Browser window to import images from iPhoto and other sources.
  • Added editable entry viewer windows from the View menu.
  • Added new 3-pane view.
  • The calendar in the sidebar now supports other calendars and will show additional months.
  • Added the ability to create a droplet somewhere that will import anything you drop on it from the Finder into a specific journal.
  • Added Smart Journal improvements.
  • Added import and export of Comma-Separated Value files, as well as export of Movable Type's database format, to provide better export of text with metadata.
  • Added improved blogging functionality.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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Version 5.1:
Overall Rating: (5.0) Features: (5.0) Support: (5.0)
Ease of Use: (5.0) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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MacJournal ReviewCome a long way... - Version: 5.1b5, 8/20/2008 12:22PM PST

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ylon
Good work Dan. You're certainly coming a ways with MacJournal. Couple of items that I would suggest that receive attention rather quickly:
1) Better WordPress support in the way of keeping a two way sync of blog entries so that you don't have to download them but rather always keep them sync'd in a folder
2) Show media such as embedded YouTube, Vimeo, whatever, videos and other media directly in the journal entries.

If you could get these in place and any other blog related WYSIWYG type of additions in place I believe you'll have a MarsEdit killer in addition to your regular other good feature set.
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MacJournal ReviewBeta versions - Version: 5.1b5, 8/12/2008 03:35AM PST

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aprillovesmacs--2008
these 15 day expiry times are a pain in the a... When I first got the Beta the one thing I didn't expect, was it to quit after 15 days. The last two have expired on me and the Beta numbers haven't even changed, it just means you have to keep going back to Mariner's web site and enter your details yet again to get yet another beta. And if you don't want to do that, there's no obvious way you can downgrade, except as one versiontracker guy has done, write directly to the developer. I work a 14 hour day as it is and I kind of resent having my time wasted. Why not just allow customers to downgrade easily by having a link on the site, or alternatively wipe the self-destruct code from the app! Well I've got three days to go before this one expires and I've already decided not to spend any more time on it - this time when it quits it can stay quit.
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MacJournal ReviewMacJournal Rocks!!! - Version: 5.1b5, 7/18/2008 08:51AM PST

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jevon_at_thewarriorsvoice
I have been using MacJournal for almost one year. I started on MacJournal 4 and have just upgraded to MacJournal 5. Primarily I use MacJournal to create blog posts offline prior to uploading them and also enjoy having on my computer a list of entries that I have created.

I like the feel and flow of MacJournal 5 and find it far easier to use than its predecessor. The WYSIWYG aspects are strong; in that, how I format my entry in MacJournal translate nicely to html. Also the inclusion of attachments works very well.

There are some features that I would like to see to make my experience complete however.

Blogging Tags:
I use WordPress for my blogging software and with this I get the capacity to use a 'More' tag. This tag will allow me to give a longer post a succinct overview and then a link should a viewer wish to see all of the post. With this my main page doesn't get too cluttered and I control the layout better. However MacJournal does not read this tag and so all I get in MacJournal is the first part of the post, but nothing else. I would like to see all of the post with a tag or graphic indicating the 'More' tag.

Podcasting:
I also podcast with my blog. I use Logic to create my podcasts and then upload the mp3 to my server (this is my preference). When I create my podcast post I just include the mp3 file as part of it. Thanks to a plug-in my podcast appears in a player in my blog post where I choose. However MacJournal does not retrieve this either. I have not explored at this point how I might podcast using MacJournal so I'm unsure of how I could change my process around this, but It would be nice if MacJournal treated this mp3 file the same way it treats the images I've included in my blog.

Summary:
Over all I'm very happy with MacJournal and look forward to future version. It is an application that I would be hard pressed to do with out now that I've used it. Thanks very much to the developers of this application. Please keep it up.
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