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I am planning to get an iPad soon, so I’ve only been journalling in books before this. I’ve tried DayOne (probably only 1 entry), stoic app (really nice prompts but I am sick of typing things because I do that for work and texting all day). I am thinking to do journalling with my handwriting but digitally? How has your experience been so far and what apps do you recommend? Thanks!

I like journaling but sometime writing is too slow. I tried recording but I don't always feel natural doing it compared to writing. Plus, it feels like it's not "private" because someone could hear it. How do you journal? vlog? writing on a phone? typing?

Updated Every Month To Align With The Current Lunar Cycle

Daily Lunar Aligned Journal Prompt and Space for Reflection (Can be filled typing or using voice-to-text)

Daily Affirmations (3,6,9)

If you’ve been looking for a structured but flexible way to start journaling, our digital fillable journals could be just what you need.

These journals align with the lunar cycle, offering prompts and sections for gratitude, intentions, and reflections throughout a 28-day period.

Each month, we release updated prompts to keep things fresh and engaging, with space for your own insights and personal growth.

These PDFs are fully fillable, meaning you can type directly into them or even use voice dictation. They work offline too, making them perfect for journaling on the go—no ads, no subscriptions, just mindful reflection.

If you’re curious, we offer a free Self-Love journal to get started. It’s available on our website or Gumroad, where you can download it for free or donate if you find it valuable.

Here’s a peek at what the layout looks like in use! ✨

Let me know if you have any questions or want to chat more about journaling!

Hi everyone, new to this sub but been journaling for years. Mix of stream of consciousness and gratitude and memory. Have hopped tools: Day One, Notion, Apple Notes, Google Docs.

One thing I've done is copy and paste my older entries into chatgpt to try and see if it could find some insights or ways I've changed/grown, reoccurring challenges, etc.

I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar desire/found a way to do it well.

thanks!

one big thing is to always trim your nails.

Keep them trim.

If the nails grow too long, then that can affect how the handwriting will turn out.

Smartphones usually have a capacitive screen, which uses the electrical charge from a finger to change the electrostatic field, allowing the screen to detect the touch. The fleshy part works best. The nail part, not so much. I think the fleshy part works best because of the water molecules inside that are very conductive.

Trimming your nails on your finger is like the biological equivalent of changing an Apple Pencil tip every now and then.

I'm considering starting journaling next month to get into the habit of it for a planned new years resolution, I feel like trying out journaling for a year could be beneficial in collecting my thoughts, improving my writing, etc.

I have a few considerations and I was wondering if I could get some suggestions on programs to consider, I'll also outline what I am considering thus far.

• Local word processing doc on my computer with headings to break up entries. Maybe a cloud backup on google drive or a similar service.
• Google drive doc but effectively the same thing.

My considerations:

• I am hoping to write in French to improve my writing in my second language. I don't get many opportunities to write in a long-form, it's usually work emails or text messages.
• A spell-checker capable of correcting basic spelling/grammar errors would be very helpful.
• I have terrible and slow handwriting, I don't think I could use something like Remarkable.
• After browsing this sub, being able to include images could be really nice. Being able to tag ideas would also be really interesting but perhaps I'm blowing up the scope too much.
• Longevity & security, I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the idea that accessing my thoughts could be pay-walled or inaccessible because the company went bankrupt or stopped supporting the platform. I'd also love it if I didn't see ads for something I just wrote about - yes, I'm aware of the contradiction with putting it on google drive.
• Accessibility offline, I don't always have good internet, sometimes I'm on the train or traveling.

Tell me what you think, I’m here to start conversation. I would love that

A very common way to do digital journaling is Goodnotes. You see paid and unpaid advertisements everywhere. And they may add doodles, photos, illustrations and stuff. Essentially making the whole thing look like a scrapbook.

Another group of people may use Canva and Picsart probably because those 2 apps come with a lot of assets. It's great for people who just want to have an array of assets and put together stuff. For people interested in drawing their own assets, one person on YouTube uses Sketchbook, but the person mainly uses Sketchbook to write in the letters. Procreate is also a popular choice.

Those are all popular ways to do digital journaling.

Now, I am going to talk about lesser-known digital journaling ways.

Google Slides. If people already use Canva, then Google Slides should be no different. Of course, Google Slides may have a limited selection of pictures. And the images may or may not have transparent background. Also, people tend to prefer doing scrapbooking on iPad all the time, so I am not sure how Google Slides will function on iPad.

Another option would be MS PowerPoint. The desktop version comes with a lot of assets. It's a limited list, because Microsoft is trying to get you to subscribe to the Premium plan. So, if you want more images, you have to pay the company money. Otherwise, you will have to make your own images and import into MS PowerPoint.

For me, I like to keep track of stuff in Google Docs, and I can access the document everywhere.

There was a time when I kept track of stuff in Apple Pages.

I also keep stuff in Apple Notes.

Of course, most of the stuff that I write is very personal information so I can't really share it on YouTube and let people read it. Even if people do read it, they will likely find it boring because it's mostly informational, not aesthetic. I suppose the only people who are interested in a person's bland personal info would be health insurance companies who want to see your health status and then see what kind of insurance policy they can offer you. There's money to be made out of that. (lol)

Anyone else here in my boat? Having a digital journal so minimalistic and informational that it's not even social media-worthy?

Hi y'all I'm new to digital journaling so I don't know how to start if you can recommend anything that would be really helpful thanks

Edit: so I recieved a lot of comments that wanted me to clarify so basically when I first came on this sub I thought my notes app would be fine but it clearly isn't so if there are apps you can recommend that would be awesome

I'm exploring this idea right now. I personally keep a relationship journal in OneNote and I can see that many, many other people also keep journals like this in various forms. I'm looking to address the shortcomings of OneNote specifically as it relates to relationship notes, and see how I can improve my own relationship with technology in general.

In that vein, I'd love to get a few eyeballs on my application and see if there's something useful. I'm especially interested to hear how others use a journal or something like a journal in their own relationships and what they might find useful to enhance it.

It's completely free - screenshots below

Elevator Pitch:

The Love Book (thelovebook.app) is your extended memory in your relationship, keeping you in sync with the dreams of your loved one and reminding you of the important things so you can enjoy the moment.

• Record notes and facts about your significant other so you don't forget anything.
• Can't come up with a good birthday gift for your wife? It's a good thing that 3 months ago you wrote down that she really wants a new pair of black high heels from Calvin Klein.
• Struggling with why your husband is so disconnected lately? Remember how you've been writing down that every Monday he seems to have a bad day at work - I think you're on to something important here

Great relationships are all about the details, and you will never remember as much as you could if you wrote it down. Love Book is just a better way to take notes, surface insights, and keep track of the pulse of your relationship in this season.

Screenshots:

The Dashboard - your relationship home page:

Edit Note - where the real work is done expressing your thoughts about the relationship

Facts - capture those little details so you never forget

I had started video journaling and it was taking up a lot of my space. So after taking advice I started uploading my videos privately on YouTube and deleted the videos from my phone, so I can save space and see my video diaries anytime I want. I prefer this to writing because writing is time consuming for me and after a tired day, I feel very lazy to sit down and write. While in video journaling I can just turn on the video and Start yapping. So anyway uploading my videos privately on YouTube and deleting them in my phone was working for me for 2-3 videos, but now again even after doing that it is still taking up lot of my storage space. At the 1st time I thought that maybe my storage space would be genuinely running out so I deleted some files and apps, but now again after recording video, it turned off after some minutes showing that I have low storage space. I again uploaded those privately in YouTube and deleted the recorded videos from my gallery, but still it's showing that I have low storage space. So now I am confused to what should I do?

If anyone here has done video journaling or posts vlogs, I want to know how do I deal with this issue?

Hello,

I want to start at digital journaling but till I get a tablet for it, do you have any recommendations for an android app?

Since I'm not very artistic myself I'm unable the create my own patterns so if it had free patterns I could use that would be great. And I really like to use my SPen while doing so, so if there is anything like that, it would be a plus!

Thank you in advance

I apologize for what may seem like a dumb question, but I want to make sure my entries are safe before I start journaling. I have Diarium on my laptop and phone and both are synced through Google drive. My concern is, if someone happens to access my Google drive, will they see my entries from Diarium? I tried accessing them through drive, but what came up was a bunch of nonsensical characters on notepad or word, but I'm not sure if that was just a flub or Diarium's way of protecting the entries? 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m trying out all of them and have things I like and don’t like about the three but want to know from others what their thoughts are before fully diving into one. Thanks in advance!

And has something stable pictures and text position wise.

I want something more personalized and fancy for my digital journal. It also needs to have stable and gestalt looking structure.

What I mean - my brain orients in texts and everything spatially, by visual patterns. In Obsidian or other note taking app text can always slide and morph, so there's no stable structure and I can't feel proper engagement and can't remember antything after writing it. Also a built in word limit option would be nice to slow down since the typing speed doesn't allow to slow down. Typing is also so scattered mentally and tactile-wise. When I write it's a single process, single motion, there are no frequent pauses between action, it's a wholistic process.

Anyone thought about similar issues? Do you know any solutions?

I just try mixed approach - writing a little bit with hand, catching my thoughts and then typing, riding that thought wave. But still - everything I typed is a blur, it's foreign to me and everything I wrote down is undestandable, memorable, ownable.

I gess what I mean it must feel tactile, palpable and reliable. My brain trusts in the paper, but completely ignores digital form. There's no proper connection and felt authorship, ownership.

I thought a lot about what apps should i use, and i narrowed it down to obsidian and one note. since i was using one note anyway, i am gonna stick to it coz it has passwords.

So what I wanted to know was, how do I organise and write everything, like what are the stuff i should keep in mind while writing so that whenever i revisit, i know what i was thinking about. how do i break down my life so that i can organise it into notebooks, sections, pages, subpages.

Also any advice about tagging? should i tag according to my age like these events happened at this age etc? anything else?

My problem is, whenever i journal, it's hodge podge of words and whatever and is useless for future use. and i go back to square one whenever i encounter the same problem again later.

Anyone knows where I can find cute handwritten multilingual fonts for free or cheap? Thank you.

So basically I haven’t been recording anything since my son was 14 months and now he is 2 and I want to be able to put everything in a journal for him. I have been texting my mom several times a week with updates on things he does, milestones etc- is there an app that uses AI to analyze text messages and put it in journal format with dates?

Would love to be able to try to create my own tabs so I can resize and color them in my design while also looking realistic…ideas of where to find them? I’ve exhausted google…

I think I may need to start doing journals now. But I want a feature where in I can press a button on the app that would show me a random happy post whenever I'm feeling sad or lonely. Is there a tool like that?

This sub could be getting a billion posts like this one, so I apologise for repeating. I've recently been very into journalling again for the sake of my sanity. I made myself a personal journal for contemplation on Notion with everything I want, and it works pretty well for me. I want to start making some additional creative journals like reading and media journals. In these, I want to add a lot of random images, arrange them however I want, add different fonts, etc. Something like what some YouTubers do in their physical journals.

When I looked up apps that I could use for this, I found GoodNotes. I thought it liked like it has most of what I need, so I decided to give it a try, only to realise that the Windows version is not as good as the Apple one. I don't have an iPad or a MacBook, and the Windows version does not seem to have the features I saw people using on the iPad like font customisation and freehand cropping. Those are two of the main features I wanted, so it's a bummer.

Does anyone know of an app (preferably free) that has these? I've seen people use Canva and MS Word, but to me, it just doesn't feel fulfilling.

I just want to be able to change the font color, and highlight in different colors like I do with Penzu. Penzu's text editor is so much more robust even though it was created like 11 years ago compared to Day One and Diarly -- and it doesn't seem like the newer journals will be making updates any time soon.

Guess I'm just here ranting. Initially I was starting to move off Penzu, because of the poor autosync feature between the phone app and webapp. But the experience on these other journals has just been so lackluster compared to Penzu, that I'm just going to settle with it. I'm not sure where all these raving comments and ratings about these apps are coming from

Do you think including a financial tracker is essential in a wellness journal?