I actually like the journal app. I’ve tried Day One and while it’s definitely more fleshed out, I’ve realized that I just don’t really care about most of the added things like what the weather was at the time I wrote an entry or word counts.
I’m just going to use this app to write a couple sentences about each day, essentially summarizing it. It’s a perfect app to do that without so much bloat and subscriptions.
I think a lot of people who dislike it are trying to use it to write entire novels for each day and make a scrapbook or something. That’s not what this is.
The only features I’d like to be added, hopefully in the future betas:
Make the date of an entry more prominent in the UI (maybe at the top instead of the bottom)
You hit on the head what use case Apple is fulfilling. Most people here want Notes/Evernote/OneNote. That’s not what this is intended to be and the location specific features and photos is what makes it good for iPhone and not for iPad or MacOS, at least not without additional work or early user feedback/research on how people are using the app on iOS.
I actually like the journal app. I’ve tried Day One and while it’s definitely more fleshed out, I’ve realized that I just don’t really care about most of the added things like what the weather was at the time I wrote an entry or word counts.
I’m just going to use this app to write a couple sentences about each day, essentially summarizing it. It’s a perfect app to do that without so much bloat and subscriptions.
I think a lot of people who dislike it are trying to use it to write entire novels for each day and make a scrapbook or something. That’s not what this is.
The only features I’d like to be added, hopefully in the future betas:
You should check out Microsoft OneNote if you haven’t already.
Tablet UI is weird, but it at least it works everywhere.
Tried the one note journaling but just feels like a chore honestly.
You hit on the head what use case Apple is fulfilling. Most people here want Notes/Evernote/OneNote. That’s not what this is intended to be and the location specific features and photos is what makes it good for iPhone and not for iPad or MacOS, at least not without additional work or early user feedback/research on how people are using the app on iOS.