The Journal

The Journal provides an easy-to-use mix of convenience, flexibility, and security to write, organize, remember, find things from a journal, whatever may be the journaling and writing needs.

Pros: The Journal application makes it easy to keep a daily journal, for both personal and professional use. Writing about thoughts and dreams or work notes and ideas or simply planning notes and decision details this application lets the user write & keep notes about just about anything. The Journal provides an easy-to-use mix of convenience, flexibility, and security. One can create as many entries as he feels like. Dates get updated, then it is up to the user to add entries, sub entries or loose leaf entries as needed. Categorize the entries to completely custom categories, create them as you go. Helps search them later. Besides text, images could be added to the entries along with date, time, timer count or even a calendar charm. Calendar charms are small graphic icons to liven things up a little bit. The journal can sit in the system tray, always ready, always available and can be totally secure by password protection and encryption.

The interface is an augmented Word like interface. The interface additionally shows the hierarchical structure of the notes, the current calendar and a timer at option if needed. The timer could be set to be a count down one or a stop watch to indicate total elapsed time. These can be helpful with time based work. .Main work area is a tabbed area that shows, besides the journal work area, a notebook, templates, an address book etc. Reminder setting services are available for tasks set up, important dates and such items.

Cons: Notes, tasks and address book functionality are features available with Outlook too. So their duplication here could be questioned. In particularly since you have to maintain an address book anyway with the mail application anyway. But then viewed as an application that is open on the desktop all the time, these do have a place in the journal too.

Overall a 4 star package.

The Journal for you!
* Keep a daily journal! Keeping a daily journal has never been easier! The Journal always knows what day it is, and automatically brings up a new entry for you every day.
* Get organized! With The Journal you can be as organized as you want to be! Keep your "daily pages" separate from your work notes, or your dreams separate from your correspondence--but only if you want to.
* Do it Your Way! The Journal has no "agenda"--except to be as useful as possible. Use any journaling style you want, or none at all. It's completely up to you!
* The Journal Newsletter! Sent out monthly, The Journal Newsletter (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thejournal-newsletter) provides tips for using The Journal, articles about journaling and writing, writing exercises, and more.
DavidRM Software's The Journal makes it easy to keep a daily journal, for both personal and professional use. Whether you want to record your thoughts and dreams, your research notes and writing exercises, your project planning notes and decision details, or just about anything else, The Journal provides an easy-to-use mix of convenience, flexibility, and security. Fast-loading and with the option to "sit" in your Windows system tray, The Journal is always available when you need it. Create as many or as few entry categories as you want, daily entry or "loose-leaf", to be as organized as you want to be. Store text, images, and just about anything else in your entries, and know that The Journal's password-protection and built-in encryption will keep them all secure.