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EDITOR NOTES
Journler has been discontinued. From the developer's site: "Journler development has ended. Sprouted is shutting down. User support will continue indefinitely."
DESCRIPTION
Journler is a notebook and entry based information manager. It is simple, it is elegant, it is powerful. Journler is designed to unite text and media in creative endeavor. It offers a place to store your thoughts and ideas while connecting them with media of any kind.
Journler’s inline media viewer supports audio-video, images, PDFs, WebArchives, websites, email and Address Book contacts. When you’re ready to organize, Journler does entries by date and folder as well tiered folders and smart families with auto-tagging. Journler includes lightning search and on the fly filtering of your entries. There is Spotlight and AppleScript support as well as Mail, iWeb, iPod, and blogging integration. The new Drop Box and JPanel make it easy to get stuff in, while the Lexicon helps you find the relationships between your data.
Chronicle. Organize. Find. Connect. Journaling is just the beginning.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.5.5:
- Improved A/V recording for Leopard uses
- Taking better advantage of Leopard UI elements
- Fixed problems with the German and Danish translations
- Added Journler’s own Quick Look preview generator
- Added support for Quick Look preview of files Journler cannot otherwise view (registered users only)
- Fixed a number of URL dragging problems related to Firefox and Camino
- Fixed problems with the way Journler handles folders and file packages
- Fixed a number of problems with the tabs bar
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.2
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| Journler User Reviews (60 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 10 2009 |
MINIMAL DESIGN Is this app dead? I read somewhere that the dev doesn't work on it anymore and it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while... I'm not an update freak, but since I'm investigating which app to chose from all the options out there, I don't want to start with an app that's not actively developed anymore... Any idea? Thanks!
(Version 2.5.5) | |
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| Jan 17 2009 |
XENOPHILE You could try checking out the official Journler site, which has extensive info on the upcoming 2.6 update. Or you could spread rumors about having read that Journler is abandonware. Do you perhaps develop a competing shareware title?
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| Jan 19 2009 |
JQMUSICMAN I think Minimal asks a legitimate question. The dev for Journler has stated that he's considering selling this software. That scenario should be concerning to both newcomers and invested users like myself. I've (pre)paid for the 2.6 update only to find out that this update may never come.
(Version 2.5.5) | |
| Jan 19 2009 |
QUICKBEN Thanks for the info. I've been test driving Journler and MacJournal and so far, Journler comes out on top. I think I'll hold off on purchasing either one until the clouds clear a little.
(Version 2.5.5) | |
| Jan 19 2009 |
JQMUSICMAN I should've mentioned in my previous comment that, for me, Journler is a fantastic piece of software (5 stars). It's super-stable, powerful, well-designed, etc. And it's because of this that I'm so disappointed with this news of a sell-out. I've been eagerly awaiting the 2.6 update for months only to find out the dev may be giving up. If this were mediocre software, I wouldn't care one way or the other.
(Version 2.5.5) | |
| Jan 31 2009 |
LEV Phil Dow, developer of Journler, has said he will continue some sort of work with the app for 1- 2 years but then that's it for him. He's happy to hand it off to other developers, though. His full - and remarkably honest & straight-talking - post on the matter is here: http://www.journler.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3925
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| Feb 20 2009 |
ZX81 Having pre-paid too for V. 2.6 a long time ago, I am worried too. This place is not only for praise and admiration, but for real questioning too.
(Version 2.5.5) | |
| Apr 10 2009 |
ZX81 I hope Phil does not sell Journler to Apokalypse Software (The guy who bought Mori...)
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 | Nov 29 2008 |
DADAMA This program has so much potential as a file organizer, information manager and note taking/journaling software. It is functions like a hybrid between MacJournal(http://www.marinersoftware.com/) and Together (http://reinventedsoftware.com/together/) and in many ways is superior to both. It has much nicer interface than either, you can embed files with in each other (unlike together), and handles links,images and other file types better than Macjournal. Having said all that it does not offer synchronization (which MacJounal does well and Together doesn't do well) and it could improve it's file structure. Currently it store it files in obscurely numbered folders in your Documents folder. Unfortunately because of these 2 short comings I still rely on the other programs mentioned for journal and information management. However, as mentioned in my opening sentence this program has a great potential and look forward to seeing it evolve.
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| Sep 11 2008 |
WRK24WHEEL I have tried MacJournal as well as all of the others. I still come back to Journaler. This is the BEST journal and note system I have found out there.
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| Aug 28 2009 |
ZO219 The one thing noone seems to mention is that Journler is a beautiful interface, and the rest are, to coin a phrase, hideous. MacJournal is a workhorse—good looking it is not. I hope Phil finds someone to carry this great notebook on, and wish him well.
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| Aug 28 2008 |
MAR6473 Of all the journal type, info collecting style apps I really like the feel of Journler. It can do a couple of things that MacJournal can't. Namely, the way that Journler attaches files, contacts, exported emails and pictures to a single entry is really handy. The issue is that Journler is kind of quirky. Sometimes, it won't open switch between entries and sometimes it won't delete a note I tell it to delete. MacJournal is incredibly stable and always does exactly what it says. I wonder if my issues with Journler are just a glitch on my Mac but it seems like others say that it is a bit quirky too. It's a good app that does a lot but I'm sticking with MacJournal for now.
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| Apr 13 2008 |
SAMRHALL Journler is one of those apps that can do just about anything you ask it to do. It's a research notebook, a pdf organizer, a journal and a project manager. Journler 2.5.4 has a lot of good updates. I've been using this program since just after it was first released, and each time it gets better. Two of the best things the program has going for it is the responsiveness of the developer and the active community of users in the Journler forums.
(Version 2.5.4) | |
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| Sep 21 2007 |
LEESA I'd love to give this 5 stars but due to performance issues I just can't. In theory Journler has everything I want BUT its really wonky and unstable for me. I wanted to use it to be able to insert pictures into a single entry and put notes next to them- but when I did so it kept switching the inline images that were in the entry with other images from the same post. When I'd click on an image it would bring up a larger version of a different image altogether- seems it was losing the link information. I didn't want to create a separate "entry" for every image I imported into the program... though that seemed to work fine when I did do that. Also, when I tried to select multiple images in the Finder and drag them into an entry it could not maintain the links to the original images, clicking them in the entry brought up a blank window. Another thing I didn't like was that the preferences and help file seemed to suggest that media (images) would be left in place on my harddrive and merely linked to, when in actuality they were being copied into the Application Support folder for Journler. I'd hoped they'd be left where the were on my harddrive and linked to, not copied. What bloat! Overall the app was unstable, freezing, quiting and also needing to be restarted to reflect my preferences changes. I love the concept of this program and I'll download a new version once these kinks have been worked out.
(Version 2.5.3) | |
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| Jul 18 2007 |
ALJUK This is an absolutely stunning app. Don't get it confused with GTD, that's not what this is. Think of it as a multiple-topic cross-referenced diary and notebook, which can include any kind of link or reference (like webpages, other documents, audio files, movie clips), for organising your information and ideas. For pure GTD, there are dedicated apps, such as the brilliant iGTD, which can go hand in hand with this. Once again, this app is stunning, very straightforward, and extremely clever.
(Version 2.5.3) | |
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| Apr 18 2007 |
SKYHORSE This is a superb application that keeps getting better and better, and 2.5.1 continues the major improvements of version 2x. I have fourteen years of entries, 5080 total, in this app so far--and replaced MacJournal with this one for reasons of quality, not price. It is now quite fast to open even with this many entries, less than four seconds (was 17 seconds with 1x versions). I haven't lost anything yet in about three years of use. Search is extremely fast and relevancy based--excellent! There's a lot of additional information pertaining to entries now that is available to the user. I've also always found Phil Dow to be extremely responsive and user-oriented. In short, I'd rate it as best of its class, just as he intended it to be.
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