United StatesmJournal is a note taking application for Mac OS X with an unique usage experience and a focus on simplicity, security and syncing. Features: - Secure, all your notes are stored encrypted (AES-256) - Sync safe, mJournal works with all the usual sync services (syncthing, BTSync, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, etc.). - Clean and distraction free interface. - To keep the mJournal experience simple articles are only structured by tags. - Unique article view which combines regular articles, favorites, search results, archive and trash. - Keyboard and/or mouse navigation. - Customisable format bar with favorite colors and fonts for powerful but simple text formatting. - Articles can be locked to prevent accidental changes. - Articles can be archived. Archived articles are normally invisible but can be accessed if needed again. - Checkboxes, separators and timestamps. - Builtin Calculator. - Attachments. - Manual or automatic article versions. - Snapshots.
Solid for Writing
I love that this app has native password protection and powerful text-editing tools. The only thing I wish this app would handle better is images. Whenever I try to insert an image, it shows up huge inside of the journal entry, and I do not see any way to resize it to fit properly on the screen.
United StatesThis is Incredible
I love how simple this is and how you can set presets for your fonts, text colors, highlight color. You can customize the easy to use window into exactly what you want through your preferences. This is the best notetaking app I have ever used.
United StatesA very functional and versatile app!
For years I’ve enjoyed the flexibility of Mac’s native TextEdit app, but have always wished it could do a little more (i.e. multiple document nesting, quicker access to customized editing tools, tagging/filtering/sorting). I feel like MJournal was able to make this all work for me. Obviously it’s not TextEdit, but it does save individual notes (or “articles” as it calls them) as TextEdit docs on your hard drive. This app doesn’t have any cloud-based backup, so I appreciate that there’s something easily accessible on my Time Machine backups if need be. After using this app pretty consistently over the last two years, here’s my take: PROS: Easy note creation, easy editing, ability to add just about ANYTHING to a note. And if I can’t create something in a note, I know I can usually do it in TextEdit and copy/paste it back into MJournal. But thankfully there’s little that can’t be done in this app. For editing, it’s been an enormous advantage for me to be able to customize ALL quick-access editing options: you can designate specific fonts/styles/colors swatches to show in the top bar so you can apply them in one click. And the tagging system: VERY user-friendly. At first I thought the inability to create folder structures would drive me crazy, but adding/using tags is so seamless in this app that I’ve grown to prefer it. One last thing: there’s been muliple developer updates in my time using this app - AND - the developer was extremely helpful and quick to respond the two times I emailed with questions. CONS: The only issue I seem to have is with the search functionality. When I search for a key word in the search field, the notes containing this word will show up on the left…but, it doesn’t show me specific locations of this word WITHIN any documents. I want to stress that I LOVE this app, and it's been a game-changer in organizing my notes. In the past I’ve used Evernote and OneNote pretty heavily, but this app is just quicker and more user-friendly for my brain. With that being said, there’s a few things I’d love to see in this app, based on my personal preferences: 1) the ability to float a note when I need to use multiple notes simultaneously, 2) the ability to add tab settings and hyperlinks (right now I just copy/paste in from TextEdit), 3) a “Help” menu tab with a search field so I can quickly search the menu, 4) the ability to choose whether to have an embedded document show up as a preview image or a file icon/name, and 5) the ability to make the app window even smaller.
United StatesA solid, simple app with no catch.
If you don’t want a lot of fancy formatting and social networking options, but what you need is to write down your thoughts or your life and not risk nosy people poking through your documents - and if you don’t mind doing some of the organizing and heavy lifting yourself - this app is as good a solution as I’ve seen available for Mac. You’ll have a barebones environment, reliable encryption, and no forced online syncing or subscription model. You download the software, it’s yours and your files are yours. If you want to support the developer, you buy the Pro version. It’s that simple. As near as I can tell the only difference is an occasional ad for Pro at the login screen.
United StatesPotential
This could be a great basic note app with simple convenience features ! It still has a few bugs and glitches and some typos. But if you want your notes always secured with encryption and a password - this will do that ! It could be a great way to index and save existing text file notes made elsewhere, I think.
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