I really like the Journal. However would prefer it to be across devices: MacBook - iPad etc. Until then I'll stick with the 'Day One' app. I mainly journal on iPad, it's very handy that it goes to my other devices automatically. iPhone only is not so useful in my case.
I think Apple launched it smartly. If we learn to use it on the phone, it becomes habit. Then we can augment it with other devices once it’s multi device capable. Realistically, we have a phone on us all the time, a Macbook Pro? Not so much.
I was so stoked about this, but after trying it, it falls short for me. I wish I could export entries, and I wish I could search within the journal. They also 100% need the Journal app to cloud-sync across one’s apple ecosystem. I hope they update these ASAP! Until they do, the plain ol’ Notes app has it beat. 😢
I am loving the journal app. Before this, I used the default notes app and had created a journal folder there. The app is not distracting in anyway, its simple and elegant as journal apps should be. Love it.
Hi! Glad to see someone talking about the Journal app from the YT community. I am writing a story on Medium myself about the Journal app and comparing it to other journaling apps. I feel it lacks a lot of basic features but since Apple centers their design around simplicity, those getting started in journaling will love this app.
Thank you! Yes, long-running journal-writers may find it limiting, and if you have a big database in something like Day One it may not be as appealing, but for someone like me just starting out and always having struggled with journaling, it's been great.
This sort of article, is actually what I’ve been looking for and can’t find a comparison between day one and other journaling apps with “the apple journal app”. But I really can’t find anything at all, which seems annoying and weird considering there are many RUclipsrs and influencers that are deep into the apple ecosystem and who have touted day one as one of their “life changing” apps…so I hoped and was expecting there to be a fair amount of videos that could show me the exact differences, pro and cons, where each app lacks. After all there is no perfect app…hopefully after the release of iOS 17.2 more of these videos will start popping up. Until then, where can I find your article?
So sorry to hear about your father. I lost my father in September 2022. I hope you’re hanging in there and know you are surrounded by people willing to help
Thank you for saying so, and I have lots of family and friends supporting me. Sorry to hear of your loss too. One book that’s helped me during this time is “The Other Side of Sadness” by George Bonano
I’ve had difficulty keeping up with a journaling routine in the past. Like a lot of people, I would buy physical notebooks only for writer’s block to happen. I love the new journal app. The prompts help get my ideas flowing
I love journal so far but agree some of recommendations would make it even better. I'm not a big fan of posting everything I do on social media so love this app as I get to post to journal and then can look back and it's just for me. Love your videos. Keep posting
This app only works on the iPhone, not the iPad which sucks since most journalers I know use a keyboard and not their fingers. Oh, well. Nice try,Apple. Swing and a miss.
Your videos are very helpful and you explain things well. I'm sorry about your dad! I lost my mom about a year ago and it's tough when a parent leaves us.
I would also love that you can make a difference between a Journal Privately and one for Business. Especially when traveling for business this might be useful.
Wow. That last part about how your dad passed away... I would LOVE to have those features on his phone. It's been almost two years and I still haven't had the heart to mess with his devices or anything because i would love to be able to archive some memories and content in a way that doesn't mean it ends up as just another folder somewhere on my computer. I would also love if you could import info from other note taking or journaling apps. For some basic entries from apps I've used previously so it's all together.
Without the search function, I find it to be totally worthless. At this stage of its development, i am far better off using the Notes app which may take a bit more effort to use, but is fully searchable. Why does Apple not do their research when creating apps so that when they are presented for use they have had a rounded real world test. Ty for a great review.
I wish we could upload Journal to Pages or elsewhere to make a book of it. Put a request in for that. Great presentation. I’ve been using it for a few months and Learned some good tips.
Great content ! I think I will love this app . I didnt see a share option . For example way to share the journal entry to Facebook , Instagram , X , ect . That would be amazing because I think this app could almost add a MySpace content vibe. Advanced blogging basically
Hope that they take your recommendations and develop them. Thank you for making this video; it has been very helpful to understand this app and imagine what I can do with it in the long run. I salute you from South America. Cheers.
Sorry about your dad. Thanks for this useful review. I recently started caring for my grandson while his parents work. I use the app to jot down things about his day. I would love to be able to share the entries with my daughter in law. I’m enjoying this app.
I’ve been keeping a journal for a couple months now but I have to write it in cursive so my nosy wife can’t read it (English is not her first language) so the journal app I think is great but I will only be using once they make it possible to have a different passcode for that specific app
I was pretty disappointed with journal app when it came out. The thing I noticed right way was the lack of title, and the choices when it comes to organizing. But I do think the suggestions and being able to add photos and podcast episodes is really cool.
I just got my new 15 plus yesterday and updated software today. The journal app showed up. I will most certainly use this app. Thank you so much for this video. Awesome job.
Something I would really like to see is formatting. I do a lot of audio messages and then number them and write about them. But I would love to make some things bold to differentiate thoughts and sub-thoughts.
I would love to have the ability to import Day One entries as well as Markdown entries so that I can compile my journals together, the other thing it needs is prompts. I tend to journal with a prompt and would like to be able to build prompts/templates within the app.
Me too with Day One. Since Apple just released their app, I’m patient and can wait for when they hopefully add an import feature. Thankfully Day One has three export capabilities.
@@Azn_Bran I installed Obsidian a couple of weeks ago. I have yet to truly try it out. I do like the feature where all the circles float around to show the relational connectivity of each circle.
First of all my condoleances. I love this app and use it almost every day. I think your suggestions are perfect and I hope they will keep developing this app to make it more complete. I think it would be great if we can keep more journals in the future so I can keep one about my children and one more personal or about fitness goals.
Thank you for your video! Very helpful and I’m so with you on your suggestions for future updates. I’m SUPER bummed that it’s not on iPad yet. I’d like to be able to hand write my entries.
Sorry to hear about your dad! I hope you are able to find special memories on his phone even if they can’t integrate into the Journal app quite yet. Thank you for this video. Do you know if there is a way to add an entry from my call history if I don’t see the conversation appear in the “suggested” section?
Appreciate you saying so. And unfortunately there isn't a way to add media or locations to an entry that aren't already suggested. Only photos can be added "manually." Hopefully that can change in future updates!
Thanks for the video. The Journal App looks promising, looking forward to try it. It definitely needs all the mentioned improvements. Search function, more flexible selections and cross device function. Additionally I hope that in IOS 18 they finally roll out their own generative AI applications. Instead of just a search function, I would hope they consider a language model (not large, I guess) for the Journal App. So that I could also ask for summaries, ask questions, and get some analysis. That could be quite interesting over time.
The only thing I miss from this app would be to set certain tags/categories to entries, in a few months if I want to find an entry from the past which isn't one or two months ago good luck with that... I don't really care about suggestions so I just need to add entries and find previous entries easily to be happy with it.
Personally, journaling is about building qualitative awareness. It’s just a tool towards that purpose and not the end itself (otherwise I could spend hours just writing about random things). At least, that’s my opinion. The goal in journaling should be to help build qualitative awareness. A tool that helps you be more aware of the quality of your life, and better understand how your decisions influence your energy levels, mood, etc. This really helps you design a more balanced and fulfilling life over time. You begin to realize what things give you energy and what things drain your energy. What things you truly value in life and where you should spend more time on. Overall, the goal is to build qualitative awareness and help you be more intentional with your time and energy. I already have my own system for journaling, and the template is pretty simple. You break it up into morning and evening with prompts that encourage self-reflection. In the morning you track the following: - how you feel today? - what are you grateful for today? - briefly describe your future vision or how you want to design your life. - your top 1-3 goals for the day, and how those things will contribute to that future. Later in the evening you have prompts that ask you to: - rate your day on a scale 1-10; - how do you feel about your life, health, and energy… - What challenges or obstacles you faced today? - list ways you can improve. Etc… These are all meant to be brief 1-3 sentence answers. Nothing too long. Again the goal isn’t to write for an endless amount of time, but to truly think about your life in new ways. I mean, just rating your day will go a long way towards building that qualitative awareness and being more intentional with your life. I started doing this when I lost my job and realized my life sucked lol. Then we had a death in the family… Through all this I wanted to be be more intentional with my time and designing the life I wanted. I was spending more time on things I didn’t really value - and neglecting the things in my life I valued the most. But I didn’t realize it until it was too late. If I could go back I would’ve spent more time with my family and enjoyed the time we had together. So I think journaling can be very healthy - but journaling just for the sake of journaling is unhealthy. I think the journaling app really promotes just writing about random things that don’t really matter in the end. My point is it should be a tool to better your life and help you build a higher quality of living. You need to be intentional with it, or else you take nothing away from it. At least that’s my opinion. I hope this helpful!
Condolences on your loss. I think if we all yse their feedback page to notify them of what we want, they will move faster (it's the only page they read tbh)
I’ve used many different journaling set ups before I started out by writing my journal in notability on iPad. Then I moved onto Notion. Then I moved to Goodnotes on iPad. I also done it on procreate once. And I’m finally I’m using Day one it would be great if I could import all the entries from Day One to Apple journal app until that happens I think I’m going to stick with Day one.
I am yet to discover the Journal app, installing 17.2 right now. It seems pretty cool, but as you said some things are missing. I'm sure over time features will get added and improved. Too sad it's not available on other Apple OS's (yet?).
First of all thank you Stephen for your video, like always very enjoyable and thanks for sharing all your thoughts about it. Also sorry to hear about your dad, I think it’s great that you are looking to recreate this mo,ents and memories that you shared with him. I really think that is a great use of technology to help us with our humanity. :) Now my complaints, I started using day one about 2 months ago, so don’t really have much of a “baggage” if I were to move to the native apple journal app. I was really looking forward to the integration of the app being able to know and suggest things according to what I listen, take pictures, physical activities and others. I was ready to open up the doors to my private life to apple. Which to be fair they already know me as much as I know me. Anyway Day one sort of does it all, with pictures and prompts as suggestions and it even has the option that you choose a date and it shows me what pictures I took back then and where. So day one also has little prompts to get you to think about something and write about it, which I get through their widget. I find it it’s a really great way to get into journaling, without even thinking about it. So I’m somewhat disappointed with what seems to be lack of features and specially integration of all the information my phone knows about me, to help me journal and reflect about my day, etc., that it doesn’t integrate your other apple devices and no suggestions about what you did in a specific day in the past. I was really looking forward to it, since apple seems to know how to come late to the party with a feature but in a way you never thought about. So if a third app can use and access all that information why can’t apple do the same? I’d be happier to let just one company, Apple, have access to my private information than two companies… So from all I can see Day One is still the best journaling app for iPhone. Hopefully they begin by adding a search function and the past date journal entries. Keep up with the videos and already looking forward to your next one.
Thank you for the kind words, and for watching 🙏 It seems Day One users like yourself (even if for a short time) know what a powerful journal app can offer. Hopefully we see Apple add some of these features in coming 17.X updates and more in iOS 18!
I’m support excited about this app too, but can you do voice journaling? Or it’s all typing? Also, your Father would be proud of the wonderful work your doing.
Like you I’ve been testing the beta version for a few weeks but something bugs me… The moment date does not always work. So I had a few photos I took with my iPhone on two specific dates one being a concert I went to last week. But the moment date fails to know the date I went even though it’s in the photo metadata taken by the phone : Apple iPhone 15 Pro Main Camera - 24 mm f1.78 9 MP • 3024 × 3024 Saturday • 2 Dec 2023 • 22:09. I also tried to show my wife on her iPhone that it will change the date entry to the date of her photo when Moment was selected, again a photo she took 3 weeks ago didn’t work. Strange because it does work on some photos I have, but I can’t narrow down as to why some photos will backdate and others don’t.
Thanks for the review I has been waiting this app But, after release I wondering Strange Apple behavior Journal App has: - no editing tools - no access even in the Apple Ecosystem (No iPad, Mac even Web version) - no simple folders / tags to systemize your data Quite strange - biggest tech world giant announced app without any features
Apple definitely needs to adding another locking code to the app, allow clippings from news app, music app or your own paid for music, allow family or friends clippings photos or certain parts of there paragraphs that they gift you, or that friends allow you to add to your journal, vice versa and or being able to copy/paste news clippings, also if your added onto someones legacy from their phone you should be allowed to get certain parts of what celebrations days that they were thinking of you or you were included in their thoughts while writing in their journal so you can add that memory/s to your journal for safe keeping for anything time to read and remember on that special day. Oh and also someone needs to do a journal app how to add family or friends so you can see how to add them and have private conversations either allow them to see your journal or not allowing them to see it. Also like the phone if you lose your number or pass away have them as a legacy for your journal and allow you to let your family or friends have certain parts that you want them have out of your journal to remember you with.
A lot of people have similar concerns, like not having a "search" feature for instance. But this is for Mindfulness. All your concerns are not in line with the purpose of journaling. Understanding mindfulness more clearly may clear up some confusion for you. After all mindfulness is only interested in right now, not ruminating over the past. What you are looking to do is more of a diary. That would best be done in Pages. Perhaps using the Page Lay Out mode for pictures, video, links etc. would be best. Journaling wants you to think about what was going on, your thoughts, emotions, maybe a lesson learned. This expands your awareness of the present to keep you in the present and not the past.
Haven't tested it yet, but if you want to take this serious, creating lot of notes over the years, it needs powerful search and organisation, tags of course too. And to not let it become another Apple only trap it need a powerful export function to be able to save your precious data of years.
Makes no sense that before this app I kept a journal of sorts on Notes and had a lock with a different passcode on the note but can't keep my journal app with a different passcode. Great review, BTW.
It’d be nice also to have specific groupings for journal entries. Like for example, I may want to document each week of my pregnancy and have a grouping for all those entries.
When I first found out and discovered this app on my iPhone. I was thinking and saying to myself. Alright I’m going to start using this app more often now. :D
As you say a search is fundamental to this app, also there should be access to calendar and (even though it's a big ask) google timeline. It's almost as though calendar is a better app
Thank you Stephen for an excellent review! The Journal App is one of the most useful apps Apple has produced for me in years! I use it very similarly to how you use it! Great video!
Well if that isn’t a reason for Apple to add the functionality you mentioned, I don’t know what is !! I hope they do that for you specifically and of course others in your position. Thanks for the great Video.
Needs more improvements. First thing i noticed, there is no title - therefore no editing tool. I hope they add some editing features for the actual journal taking process. And also, being able to add templates for a more structured journaling experience.
As far as I can see, there's no third party suggestions API. Apple have only provided API for third party apps to show the suggestions *view*, the same as you see in Apple's Journal app. So a third party journaling app could use iOS 17.2's new suggestion prompts view, but a third party service such as Spotify can't add in any suggestions of their own.
Two additional features would be welcomed… 1. Share and collaborative options for journal entries. It would be a great way to highlight events or moments with others that were a part of the experience being recorded. 2. Add hashtag capability for journal entries to go along with search capabilities you included in your wish list for future updates.
I think with the app they’re trying to disconnect you in a way, with it intended as a self reflective tool. Journals are generally intended for “your eyes only” so it makes sense that there aren’t any collaborative or sharing options. Hashtag and search options would be dope though.
Nobody should use the three dots. In almost every Apple app you can swipe to the left or right to get some more options. To the left is always delete and right always save and with the journal app it’s only those two options.
I don’t journal. What is the point of writing things down if you can never find them again? Seems to me that without search it’s trash. What’s the point of writing stuff down if you can never find it again.
Hello Stephen, Thanks for sharing lots of details as always 🙏 Quick question - When we copy photos to Journal app from our photos app , Will the photos not consume double the space in iphone , i mean storing the same photos in two different apps . Please correct me and do share info on this. Thanks !
Hopefully the future will give me the ability to make up my own suggestion list and move photos around the site. If you're writing on multiple topics, it would be nice to have the photo within the section it references. Still, I am glad Apple has a journal app.
I went back to Day One precisely because I didn't have a search function. Furthermore, I can't import my history from another app like Day One so this need always to be a fresh start.
I like this concept, but why isn't it available on the Mac? I wish it would pull the activity from iOS, but have the option to write it on the Mac where it is more comfortable. Just my 2 cents.
Do you install the beta updates to use the feedback app and make these recommendations? I made the recommendation about search functionality but not the others. Those are great ideas.
ahhh i too have my moms iphone and i go on it when i miss her. i would love if they implemented these features. i think our parents would have loved this idea for us too 🤎
Sorry to hear your father passed, mine also passed this year. I think it’s nice you kept his phone as a memory.
Sorry to hear about yours too. If you're interest, the book "The Other Side of Sadness" has helped us process.
Same here guys & thank you for the book recommendation; will definitely check it out. My condolences to both of you
I really like the Journal. However would prefer it to be across devices: MacBook - iPad etc. Until then I'll stick with the 'Day One' app. I mainly journal on iPad, it's very handy that it goes to my other devices automatically. iPhone only is not so useful in my case.
Wow it doesn’t sync across devices? I’ll be sticking with Day One for now, too.
That’s so odd. You’d think Apple would make this app sync across all your other Apple devices considering they have many apps that already do.
Yeah, really needs cross device syncing and search
Not acceptable not be supported across Apple devices. I erased the app and never use it till it is done
I think Apple launched it smartly.
If we learn to use it on the phone, it becomes habit. Then we can augment it with other devices once it’s multi device capable. Realistically, we have a phone on us all the time, a Macbook Pro? Not so much.
Man, 8:25 I felt this. My father passed away just over a year ago as well. Condolences to you, friend.
Sorry bro. It’s tough sometimes. I’ve been reading “The Other Side of sadness” by George Bonano and that’s been instructive.
I was so stoked about this, but after trying it, it falls short for me.
I wish I could export entries, and I wish I could search within the journal. They also 100% need the Journal app to cloud-sync across one’s apple ecosystem. I hope they update these ASAP! Until they do, the plain ol’ Notes app has it beat. 😢
Needs all of that for sure. Hopefully in iOS 18 the latest
I am loving the journal app. Before this, I used the default notes app and had created a journal folder there. The app is not distracting in anyway, its simple and elegant as journal apps should be. Love it.
Nice to hear it's working for you too!
I’ve been using the beta since it was available, and now I journal every day. Yes, there could be improvements, but so far they’re on the right track.
Same! I’ve been writing short posts daily
Storage consumption what can you say
how do you get onto the beta programs?!
Hi! Glad to see someone talking about the Journal app from the YT community. I am writing a story on Medium myself about the Journal app and comparing it to other journaling apps. I feel it lacks a lot of basic features but since Apple centers their design around simplicity, those getting started in journaling will love this app.
Thank you! Yes, long-running journal-writers may find it limiting, and if you have a big database in something like Day One it may not be as appealing, but for someone like me just starting out and always having struggled with journaling, it's been great.
This sort of article, is actually what I’ve been looking for and can’t find a comparison between day one and other journaling apps with “the apple journal app”.
But I really can’t find anything at all, which seems annoying and weird considering there are many RUclipsrs and influencers that are deep into the apple ecosystem and who have touted day one as one of their “life changing” apps…so I hoped and was expecting there to be a fair amount of videos that could show me the exact differences, pro and cons, where each app lacks. After all there is no perfect app…hopefully after the release of iOS 17.2 more of these videos will start popping up. Until then, where can I find your article?
@@ronlu25 I wish it was available on Macos. Much like DayOne, I've never enjoyed journaling on my phone
So sorry to hear about your father. I lost my father in September 2022. I hope you’re hanging in there and know you are surrounded by people willing to help
Thank you for saying so, and I have lots of family and friends supporting me. Sorry to hear of your loss too. One book that’s helped me during this time is “The Other Side of Sadness” by George Bonano
I’ve had difficulty keeping up with a journaling routine in the past. Like a lot of people, I would buy physical notebooks only for writer’s block to happen. I love the new journal app. The prompts help get my ideas flowing
Same for me! Glad you’ve found it helpful
I love journal so far but agree some of recommendations would make it even better. I'm not a big fan of posting everything I do on social media so love this app as I get to post to journal and then can look back and it's just for me. Love your videos. Keep posting
Glad to hear it's been a good experience for you, and the videos will keep coming!
This app only works on the iPhone, not the iPad which sucks since most journalers I know use a keyboard and not their fingers. Oh, well. Nice try,Apple. Swing and a miss.
Totally agree it should have only ever have been an iPad app to start with.
Those suggestions would definitely make Journals better.
This needs to come out on Mac and iPadOS
Your videos are very helpful and you explain things well. I'm sorry about your dad! I lost my mom about a year ago and it's tough when a parent leaves us.
Sorry to hear 🙏🏻 appreciate you watching!
I would also love that you can make a difference between a Journal Privately and one for Business. Especially when traveling for business this might be useful.
Different "vaults" or "notebooks" would be cool
Your right…. But I like the idea…. And I can use it. But then again…. Many apple products are 95% there… and then last 5% is missing….
Sticking with Day One. While I’ve mostly journaled on my iPhone, I also do journaling for my university experience on my iPad or MacBook.
Wow. That last part about how your dad passed away... I would LOVE to have those features on his phone. It's been almost two years and I still haven't had the heart to mess with his devices or anything because i would love to be able to archive some memories and content in a way that doesn't mean it ends up as just another folder somewhere on my computer. I would also love if you could import info from other note taking or journaling apps. For some basic entries from apps I've used previously so it's all together.
Without the search function, I find it to be totally worthless. At this stage of its development, i am far better off using the Notes app which may take a bit more effort to use, but is fully searchable. Why does Apple not do their research when creating apps so that when they are presented for use they have had a rounded real world test. Ty for a great review.
I don’t understand the ‘connected’ part. It’s a conversation? But the other person can’t see it? What’s the point of that?
This video has really encouraged me to go ahead and start journaling but we do need it on other devices. A Mac version would be awesome.
Yes, hoping for that at WWDC!
I wish we could upload Journal to Pages or elsewhere to make a book of it. Put a request in for that. Great presentation. I’ve been using it for a few months and Learned some good tips.
That would be great, and export / import would be nice too!
Great video and suggestions for improvement. I’d love to see the same app on the IPad
Thanks! Hoping to see sine updates at WWDC next week!
Great content ! I think I will love this app . I didnt see a share option . For example way to share the journal entry to Facebook , Instagram , X , ect . That would be amazing because I think this app could almost add a MySpace content vibe. Advanced blogging basically
Hope that they take your recommendations and develop them.
Thank you for making this video; it has been very helpful to understand this app and imagine what I can do with it in the long run.
I salute you from South America. Cheers.
Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
Sorry about your dad. Thanks for this useful review. I recently started caring for my grandson while his parents work. I use the app to jot down things about his day. I would love to be able to share the entries with my daughter in law. I’m enjoying this app.
Thanks for saying so. And that’s a great use case. Hopefully sharing comes soon!
As part of my foreign language training, I use the journal app as a foreign language diary. It works well for this.
Love that!
Great suggestions for improvements. I hope Apple listens.
Appreciate it 🙏
Option for (Automatic)Time Stamps would be great. Also a search function.
Desperately needs search and browse by date for sure.
I’ve been keeping a journal for a couple months now but I have to write it in cursive so my nosy wife can’t read it (English is not her first language) so the journal app I think is great but I will only be using once they make it possible to have a different passcode for that specific app
I was pretty disappointed with journal app when it came out. The thing I noticed right way was the lack of title, and the choices when it comes to organizing. But I do think the suggestions and being able to add photos and podcast episodes is really cool.
Definitely needs more organization options, and search. Love the suggestions though.
Agree with you. Also it should also let you choose the songs instead of only being able to use the ones it recommends you. Great review
Appreciate that! And hoping for way more features in iOS 18 version of the app
Shoutout to the Cortex brand Theme System journal! Really nice journal, one of my favorites!
Yes! Planning my theme for 2024 🙂
I just got my new 15 plus yesterday and updated software today. The journal app showed up. I will most certainly use this app. Thank you so much for this video. Awesome job.
You’re welcome, thanks for watching!
It doesn't even capture a time and a location! It also needs to be able to tag entries and use multiple journals. I switched straight back to Day One.
Sweet I really like your recommendations - I hope they incorporate them.
Appreciate it!
Something I would really like to see is formatting. I do a lot of audio messages and then number them and write about them. But I would love to make some things bold to differentiate thoughts and sub-thoughts.
That would be huge, hope they introduce that too!
So sorry for your dad’s passing. Glad you kept the phone as memory.
Appreciate that 🙏🏻
I would love to have the ability to import Day One entries as well as Markdown entries so that I can compile my journals together, the other thing it needs is prompts. I tend to journal with a prompt and would like to be able to build prompts/templates within the app.
Me too with Day One. Since Apple just released their app, I’m patient and can wait for when they hopefully add an import feature. Thankfully Day One has three export capabilities.
@@BlackBagData agreed. I primarily use Obsidian now having ,over from day one but I miss many of the old features.
@@Azn_Bran I installed Obsidian a couple of weeks ago. I have yet to truly try it out. I do like the feature where all the circles float around to show the relational connectivity of each circle.
I currently have a journal I use mostly for my adventures and for scouting out history and for trail hiking also.
First of all my condoleances.
I love this app and use it almost every day. I think your suggestions are perfect and I hope they will keep developing this app to make it more complete. I think it would be great if we can keep more journals in the future so I can keep one about my children and one more personal or about fitness goals.
Thank you for your video! Very helpful and I’m so with you on your suggestions for future updates. I’m SUPER bummed that it’s not on iPad yet. I’d like to be able to hand write my entries.
Appreciate you watching 🙏🏻 hoping the iPad app comes quickly!
Excellent video explaining the features and benefits of Journal App. Thanks a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Sorry to hear about your dad! I hope you are able to find special memories on his phone even if they can’t integrate into the Journal app quite yet. Thank you for this video. Do you know if there is a way to add an entry from my call history if I don’t see the conversation appear in the “suggested” section?
Appreciate you saying so. And unfortunately there isn't a way to add media or locations to an entry that aren't already suggested. Only photos can be added "manually." Hopefully that can change in future updates!
Thanks for the video. The Journal App looks promising, looking forward to try it. It definitely needs all the mentioned improvements. Search function, more flexible selections and cross device function. Additionally I hope that in IOS 18 they finally roll out their own generative AI applications. Instead of just a search function, I would hope they consider a language model (not large, I guess) for the Journal App. So that I could also ask for summaries, ask questions, and get some analysis. That could be quite interesting over time.
Sorry about your dad my condolences to and your family!!!!🙏🙏🙏🙏
Appreciate that 🙏 we've gotten past the 1 year mark which was a big moment. The book "The Other Side of Sadness" has helped a lot.
It needs a fully-indexed Search feature, helping users to recall events and memories
Absolutely
The only thing I miss from this app would be to set certain tags/categories to entries, in a few months if I want to find an entry from the past which isn't one or two months ago good luck with that...
I don't really care about suggestions so I just need to add entries and find previous entries easily to be happy with it.
Tags and categories would be great!
Personally, journaling is about building qualitative awareness.
It’s just a tool towards that purpose and not the end itself (otherwise I could spend hours just writing about random things).
At least, that’s my opinion.
The goal in journaling should be to help build qualitative awareness.
A tool that helps you be more aware of the quality of your life, and better understand how your decisions influence your energy levels, mood, etc.
This really helps you design a more balanced and fulfilling life over time.
You begin to realize what things give you energy and what things drain your energy.
What things you truly value in life and where you should spend more time on.
Overall, the goal is to build qualitative awareness and help you be more intentional with your time and energy.
I already have my own system for journaling, and the template is pretty simple.
You break it up into morning and evening with prompts that encourage self-reflection.
In the morning you track the following:
- how you feel today?
- what are you grateful for today?
- briefly describe your future vision or how you want to design your life.
- your top 1-3 goals for the day, and how those things will contribute to that future.
Later in the evening you have prompts that ask you to:
- rate your day on a scale 1-10;
- how do you feel about your life, health, and energy…
- What challenges or obstacles you faced today?
- list ways you can improve.
Etc…
These are all meant to be brief 1-3 sentence answers. Nothing too long.
Again the goal isn’t to write for an endless amount of time, but to truly think about your life in new ways.
I mean, just rating your day will go a long way towards building that qualitative awareness and being more intentional with your life.
I started doing this when I lost my job and realized my life sucked lol.
Then we had a death in the family…
Through all this I wanted to be be more intentional with my time and designing the life I wanted.
I was spending more time on things I didn’t really value - and neglecting the things in my life I valued the most.
But I didn’t realize it until it was too late.
If I could go back I would’ve spent more time with my family and enjoyed the time we had together.
So I think journaling can be very healthy - but journaling just for the sake of journaling is unhealthy.
I think the journaling app really promotes just writing about random things that don’t really matter in the end.
My point is it should be a tool to better your life and help you build a higher quality of living.
You need to be intentional with it, or else you take nothing away from it.
At least that’s my opinion. I hope this helpful!
One thing is I wish you could do is log your mood in it like you can in the health app!
That would be nice!
Deg, I choked up when you mentioned your father. Sorry for your loss… -Orlando, FL
Thanks for saying so 🙏🏻 hey from Tampa!
A way to share entries would be good too.
Definitely needed
Condolences on your loss. I think if we all yse their feedback page to notify them of what we want, they will move faster (it's the only page they read tbh)
I’ve used many different journaling set ups before I started out by writing my journal in notability on iPad. Then I moved onto Notion. Then I moved to Goodnotes on iPad. I also done it on procreate once. And I’m finally I’m using Day one it would be great if I could import all the entries from Day One to Apple journal app until that happens I think I’m going to stick with Day one.
Day One seems to be the gold standard at the moment. Lots of people hoping for that import feature.
same !
I am yet to discover the Journal app, installing 17.2 right now. It seems pretty cool, but as you said some things are missing. I'm sure over time features will get added and improved. Too sad it's not available on other Apple OS's (yet?).
Yeah it needs a Mac and iPad app soon
First of all thank you Stephen for your video, like always very enjoyable and thanks for sharing all your thoughts about it. Also sorry to hear about your dad, I think it’s great that you are looking to recreate this mo,ents and memories that you shared with him. I really think that is a great use of technology to help us with our humanity. :)
Now my complaints, I started using day one about 2 months ago, so don’t really have much of a “baggage” if I were to move to the native apple journal app. I was really looking forward to the integration of the app being able to know and suggest things according to what I listen, take pictures, physical activities and others. I was ready to open up the doors to my private life to apple. Which to be fair they already know me as much as I know me.
Anyway Day one sort of does it all, with pictures and prompts as suggestions and it even has the option that you choose a date and it shows me what pictures I took back then and where. So day one also has little prompts to get you to think about something and write about it, which I get through their widget. I find it it’s a really great way to get into journaling, without even thinking about it.
So I’m somewhat disappointed with what seems to be lack of features and specially integration of all the information my phone knows about me, to help me journal and reflect about my day, etc., that it doesn’t integrate your other apple devices and no suggestions about what you did in a specific day in the past.
I was really looking forward to it, since apple seems to know how to come late to the party with a feature but in a way you never thought about. So if a third app can use and access all that information why can’t apple do the same? I’d be happier to let just one company, Apple, have access to my private information than two companies…
So from all I can see Day One is still the best journaling app for iPhone.
Hopefully they begin by adding a search function and the past date journal entries.
Keep up with the videos and already looking forward to your next one.
Thank you for the kind words, and for watching 🙏 It seems Day One users like yourself (even if for a short time) know what a powerful journal app can offer. Hopefully we see Apple add some of these features in coming 17.X updates and more in iOS 18!
I’m support excited about this app too, but can you do voice journaling? Or it’s all typing? Also, your Father would be proud of the wonderful work your doing.
You can do audio entries!
Like you I’ve been testing the beta version for a few weeks but something bugs me…
The moment date does not always work. So I had a few photos I took with my iPhone on two specific dates one being a concert I went to last week. But the moment date fails to know the date I went even though it’s in the photo metadata taken by the phone : Apple iPhone 15 Pro Main Camera - 24 mm f1.78 9 MP • 3024 × 3024 Saturday • 2 Dec 2023 • 22:09. I also tried to show my wife on her iPhone that it will change the date entry to the date of her photo when Moment was selected, again a photo she took 3 weeks ago didn’t work. Strange because it does work on some photos I have, but I can’t narrow down as to why some photos will backdate and others don’t.
That's pretty strange, especially when that data point is very clear in photo metadata. Maybe early bugs too.
Thank you for posting this and so sorry to hear about your father's passing.
Thanks for the review
I has been waiting this app
But, after release I wondering
Strange Apple behavior
Journal App has:
- no editing tools
- no access even in the Apple Ecosystem (No iPad, Mac even Web version)
- no simple folders / tags to systemize your data
Quite strange - biggest tech world giant announced app without any features
Certainly needs the whole ecosystem and better organization / search.
Apple definitely needs to adding another locking code to the app, allow clippings from news app, music app or your own paid for music, allow family or friends clippings photos or certain parts of there paragraphs that they gift you, or that friends allow you to add to your journal, vice versa and or being able to copy/paste news clippings, also if your added onto someones legacy from their phone you should be allowed to get certain parts of what celebrations days that they were thinking of you or you were included in their thoughts while writing in their journal so you can add that memory/s to your journal for safe keeping for anything time to read and remember on that special day. Oh and also someone needs to do a journal app how to add family or friends so you can see how to add them and have private conversations either allow them to see your journal or not allowing them to see it. Also like the phone if you lose your number or pass away have them as a legacy for your journal and allow you to let your family or friends have certain parts that you want them have out of your journal to remember you with.
🥂 to your dad! Been there recently too. Great idea to use his phone in that way!
Appreciate that 🙏 FWIW the book "The Other Side of Sadness" has helped tremendously.
@@beardfm my wife lost her mother a month ago and has that book. I've heard good things about it. Thanks!
Thanks,loved the lucid way you’ve explained the journal app
Glad it was helpful!
A lot of people have similar concerns, like not having a "search" feature for instance. But this is for Mindfulness. All your concerns are not in line with the purpose of journaling. Understanding mindfulness more clearly may clear up some confusion for you. After all mindfulness is only interested in right now, not ruminating over the past. What you are looking to do is more of a diary. That would best be done in Pages. Perhaps using the Page Lay Out mode for pictures, video, links etc. would be best. Journaling wants you to think about what was going on, your thoughts, emotions, maybe a lesson learned. This expands your awareness of the present to keep you in the present and not the past.
Really like the Journal app. Needs to be on iPad as well as that’s where I spend most of my time.
Needs iPad app for sure
I was so disappointed when 17.2 came out and Journal was not a part of the iPad release.
Haven't tested it yet, but if you want to take this serious, creating lot of notes over the years, it needs powerful search and organisation, tags of course too. And to not let it become another Apple only trap it need a powerful export function to be able to save your precious data of years.
Now they will know everything about me in one place 😅
Notes app on iPhone has more functionality than the journal app. The former also synchronises across devices.
Sorry to hear that you lost your father, i understand how that can feel, my dad passed away a couple years ago
Sorry for your loss too 🙏🏻 grief is hard at times. But I’ve been reading “The Other Side of Sadness” and it’s offered some helpful ideas.
Makes no sense that before this app I kept a journal of sorts on Notes and had a lock with a different passcode on the note but can't keep my journal app with a different passcode. Great review, BTW.
It’d be nice also to have specific groupings for journal entries. Like for example, I may want to document each week of my pregnancy and have a grouping for all those entries.
How come it’s not available for the iPad???
Surely it’s coming, but unfortunate it’s not here at launch.
When I first found out and discovered this app on my iPhone. I was thinking and saying to myself. Alright I’m going to start using this app more often now. :D
As you say a search is fundamental to this app, also there should be access to calendar and (even though it's a big ask) google timeline. It's almost as though calendar is a better app
Yes, didn’t think about it but calendar is essential!
Thank you Stephen for an excellent review! The Journal App is one of the most useful apps Apple has produced for me in years! I use it very similarly to how you use it! Great video!
Thanks for the kind words 🙏🏻 appreciate it!
Love your "wishlist"...I hope Apple adds them to this app
Thanks, and same!
Great Suggestions for Improvements
Well if that isn’t a reason for Apple to add the functionality you mentioned, I don’t know what is !! I hope they do that for you specifically and of course others in your position. Thanks for the great Video.
Appreciate you watching 🙏🏻
Needs more improvements.
First thing i noticed, there is no title - therefore no editing tool.
I hope they add some editing features for the actual journal taking process.
And also, being able to add templates for a more structured journaling experience.
Yes, all needed!
i will start using this in 2024
Nice video bro, thanks! I got all the information that I needed :)
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
Going to miss hearing you on the apple insider podcast!
I’ll miss hosting too! But pushing harder than ever here on RUclips
Need this app on the I pad with Pencil capabilities please
All it needs for me to use constantly is the search feature. I’m going to keep making entries in hopes they add it.
As far as I can see, there's no third party suggestions API. Apple have only provided API for third party apps to show the suggestions *view*, the same as you see in Apple's Journal app. So a third party journaling app could use iOS 17.2's new suggestion prompts view, but a third party service such as Spotify can't add in any suggestions of their own.
Two additional features would be welcomed…
1. Share and collaborative options for journal entries. It would be a great way to highlight events or moments with others that were a part of the experience being recorded.
2. Add hashtag capability for journal entries to go along with search capabilities you included in your wish list for future updates.
Hashtags are a great suggestions, and the collaboration too, much like Shared Photo Library
I think with the app they’re trying to disconnect you in a way, with it intended as a self reflective tool. Journals are generally intended for “your eyes only” so it makes sense that there aren’t any collaborative or sharing options.
Hashtag and search options would be dope though.
Nobody should use the three dots. In almost every Apple app you can swipe to the left or right to get some more options. To the left is always delete and right always save and with the journal app it’s only those two options.
I don’t journal. What is the point of writing things down if you can never find them again? Seems to me that without search it’s trash. What’s the point of writing stuff down if you can never find it again.
Definitely needs search asap
Hello Stephen, Thanks for sharing lots of details as always 🙏
Quick question - When we copy photos to Journal app from our photos app , Will the photos not consume double the space in iphone , i mean storing the same photos in two different apps .
Please correct me and do share info on this.
Thanks !
Thank you! And that's a great question. I don't believe it takes up double storage, but will see if there are any Apple docs on that.
@@beardfm Noted it . Thank you for letting know 😊
Hopefully the future will give me the ability to make up my own suggestion list and move photos around the site. If you're writing on multiple topics, it would be nice to have the photo within the section it references. Still, I am glad Apple has a journal app.
I went back to Day One precisely because I didn't have a search function. Furthermore, I can't import my history from another app like Day One so this need always to be a fresh start.
For those with a long history in Day One and other apps, it would be a hard sell for sure.
Once there are too many entries. It will be difficult to search for a specific entry so I think they need to Add the search functionality
For sure. And a month 2 calendar browser would be great
This is such a great app … thanks for the vid
I think so too! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I like this concept, but why isn't it available on the Mac? I wish it would pull the activity from iOS, but have the option to write it on the Mac where it is more comfortable. Just my 2 cents.
Same. I have to imagine it’ll come to iPad and Mac soon
And add export as markdown, Apple, please.
yes!
I always try to eat at that Mission BBQ when I'm in town!
Apple please make this compatible across all my devices!!! Please…😅
Same!
I’m trying to learn more about this journal app
Hopefully this video helped! Any specific questions?
Do you install the beta updates to use the feedback app and make these recommendations? I made the recommendation about search functionality but not the others. Those are great ideas.
ahhh i too have my moms iphone and i go on it when i miss her. i would love if they implemented these features. i think our parents would have loved this idea for us too 🤎
Sorry about your Mom. I am glad we live in a time where their device can be a sort of time capsule though
I’d like to see a microphone talk to text option
You can use the mic on the keyboard for dictation though right?