Apple’s Journal App is (Almost) Perfect
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- Deep-dive into the iOS 17.2 Journal App for iPhone, which has been a game-changer for me! I explain the music, podcast, contact, and photo suggestions, learn about my personal experience, and three key improvements that would take it to the next level.
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00:00 Introduction
00:26 Getting Started with Journal
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04:37 Personal Journal App Experience
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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
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 UA-camrs 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
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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?!
Great Suggestions for Improvements
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
Thank you for posting this and so sorry to hear about your father's passing.
Those suggestions would definitely make Journals better.
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!
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!
Sweet I really like your recommendations - I hope they incorporate them.
Appreciate it!
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!
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.
I currently have a journal I use mostly for my adventures and for scouting out history and for trail hiking also.
Shoutout to the Cortex brand Theme System journal! Really nice journal, one of my favorites!
Yes! Planning my theme for 2024 🙂
Thanks,loved the lucid way you’ve explained the journal app
Glad it was helpful!
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 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….
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.
Nice video bro, thanks! I got all the information that I needed :)
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
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 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
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!
Excellent video explaining the features and benefits of Journal App. Thanks a lot.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you I’m not great with tech and this was easy to understand.
Glad it was helpful!
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!
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.
🥂 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!
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
Great suggestions for improvements. I hope Apple listens.
Appreciate it 🙏
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've used Day One for about a year and have viewed the location tagging as a way to mark the location I was at while composing the entry. I'm migrating my entries over to Apple Journal now and trying to decide if I should use the location feature to tag places relevant to what I was actually writing about.
I would, especially if one day they offer a "map overview" view where you can see your entries plotted.
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)
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
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 !
Looks interesting. Will be interested in how much they will improve it. Years with Apple Music and still not user friendly for subscribers (pay for even poorer performance!)
I may not have caught it in the video, so I will ask; does it have the ability to share an entry you create to Facebook?
It does not. At least at this specific time.
I’m excited for this app. I’ve been journaling for this year on the Notes app, its worked well so far but I’d like something more interactive like the journal app. Your suggestions are definitely NEEDED! Hope developers add them to the next update!!
I don’t know if you can like search gifs or pics on the internet and add them directly, that would be great! Also would be great if it could pull from the Notes app cause sometimes I write other thoughts separately from my journal, It’d be great if it also linked to them. And if you could render and download periods of time into something like a book, that’d be great too.
I just hope the app doesn’t make me feel like I’m dependent on it and that without it I’ll loose all my journaling, so an export option would be necessary too, just for safety, if they keep the app great I wouldn’t leave it but I’d like to feel safe about my memories not fading cause of some technicality.
Definitely excited for this app!!
You can share your notes with Journal which is kinda cool
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!
This is such a great app … thanks for the vid
I think so too! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
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!
Love your "wishlist"...I hope Apple adds them to this app
Thanks, and same!
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 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
I went into settings and selected a schedule journal date, it wouldn’t set. Got a pop up, go into notifications in setting to schedule. Tried several time. 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Need this app on the I pad with Pencil capabilities please
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.
Does it have audio transcription to be perfect?
As part of my foreign language training, I use the journal app as a foreign language diary. It works well for this.
Love that!
Agree with all of your suggestions and highlights with the exception of backdating journal entries. I just don't see that being a very common use case, so I can't imagine a lot of development resources being invested into it. Maybe I am wrong though - if it's a 2 line code change, great! But like I said, I just can't see a lot of people backdating an entry a year or more and still remembering enough for it to be worthwhile.
That said, if it's for the purpose of being able to import journal entries from other apps so that you can have everything in a single place (i.e. you already *wrote* the journal entry and are just moving it over), THAT would be super handy.
The import would be huge, but Apple already suggestions photo memories from past dates, so it seems like it's a thing they're encouraging 🤔
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 🙏🏻
Is journal coming to iPad?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
TY for useful video....
Can I ask you something?
How do I download photos or video files saved in an existing journal?
There is no download button and the only answer is a screenshot? :(
There is no option, unfortunately. Hopefully soon!
Option for (Automatic)Time Stamps would be great. Also a search function.
Desperately needs search and browse by date for sure.
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.
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.
All it needs for me to use constantly is the search feature. I’m going to keep making entries in hopes they add it.
Thanks great video
Appreciate it!
I back up my iPhone to my Mac manually. Do you know if my
Journal entries get backed up? So for instance if I get a new iPhone and restore from my Mac, will my Journal entries be preserved?
I can’t seem to find hard info on that, but it does seem like Journal sync to iCloud even if you’re not backing up to iCloud. So I would make sure the journal toggle is on in Settings > iCloud
@@beardfm that’s good to know about the iCloud setting. Thank you.
The one and only question I have regarding journal apps is how they can save my entries. I really want to know if this is backed up on iCloud at all. I recently lost 4 months of journaling due to a Journey journal app crash. I am now afraid to use any app. Where is this backed up? I went on my iCloud hoping to see the journal app listed on my apps. It is currently not there. Do you have any insight about the backing up capabilities of the app. Thanks so much for any help!
Hey! It’s backed up with your device iCloud backups, yes. Maybe when it comes out for iPad / Mac it’ll be listed as a synced app.
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!
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.
Erroneously have deleted journal application now how to downaload the application
Going to miss hearing you on the apple insider podcast!
I’ll miss hosting too! But pushing harder than ever here on UA-cam
Deg, I choked up when you mentioned your father. Sorry for your loss… -Orlando, FL
Thanks for saying so 🙏🏻 hey from Tampa!
So sorry for your dad’s passing. Glad you kept the phone as memory.
Appreciate that 🙏🏻
Hey Stephen! Can you check how to add to work profiles for in IOS, if not able to add then can we have 2 different users profiles on same iPhone with different data and apps?
I'm not sure that's possible. iPad allows MDM's to create multiple profiles for business use cases, but I don' believe iPhone can.
Thanks for sharing about your dad.
Of course 🙏🏼
I’m excited about Journaling about my golf. I’m hoping the API is will integrated into a golf app I’m using or added to a new app that would let me journal my golf shots and photos I make on the course. I really wish I had purchased my latest iPhone with a much larger storage.
Oh sports and training apps would be an incredible integration!
@@beardfm I have journaled with this and my “workout” summaries show up! My golf course photos are showing up and video clips. We attended a Christmas play last night. Photos and a quick note about who we sat with and what my grandson had to say about never wanting a beard because it is itchy!
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!
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.
thank you.
Welcome!
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!
wayyy behind any other journaling apps, except the fact that it has the new suggestions API
Only if you don't have a journal app already, it might be worth using
Can I make separate journal sections for example, could I create one journal for my trip to Italy and then another journal for a separate trip? Or is it all just one big flow of entries?
It's just one big flow of entries. Categories or tags like you're saying would be helpful.
Does anyone know how to get it to pick up books in the Audible app?
There was something similar long time ago … I would love to share those memories also but this function it seems is not possible right?
You can’t share at the moment. Hopefully sharing, search, and calendar view come in the future!
It would be nice to print.
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!
Is there a way to print our written and picture journal entries?
Not yet, hoping to see more export options added with iOS 18
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.
Hey. Do you know much about Microsoft One Note? Can I say that this Apple's Journal App is similar to it?
I don't really use One Note at all, sorry about that!
Funny to hear that my info are safe 😅
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
I wish it was tracking your route similar to GoogleMaps Timeline.
A way to share entries would be good too.
Definitely needed
I’m trying to learn more about this journal app
Hopefully this video helped! Any specific questions?