Are you the type of person who has their entire life written down or are writing a book about it? If so, then you will want to look at the new version of Mariner Software’s MacJounral. Version 6.0 was released with over 100 improvements and changes to the journaling program. Complete with new blogging tools, MacJournal allows you to write and entry and share it with the world if that is what your life is about.
MacJournal’s efficiencies are the ability to add your media to the timeline including photos and and PDF’s to the timeline, as well as things like your mood. All journals can be arranged by topic, date, size or other category.
Some of the new features of the program include:
- Added a new Timeline View Mode showing a visual timeline of entries in any or all journals
- Added a Calendar View Mode that shows entries (and their titles) from any or all journals
- Added sidebar Navigation Modes, that allow you to display entries in your sidebar organized by Date, Tags, Priority, Status, Mood, Rating or Label
- Added support for Posterous blogs
- Added support for Tumblr blogs
- Added support for uploading images to Imgur and Dropbox
- Added a Trash where deleted entries go instead of being deleted right away
- Added a Books feature for creating books specially formatted for publishing (online ordering of hard copy versions of your book will be available in a forthcoming update)
- Added word count goals and progress tracking
- Added geolocation to new and existing entries
- Added custom icons for entries and journals (choose from a built-in list or use your own file)
- Added a timer/stopwatch
- Added zooming support for images and PDF files
- Added “New entry from Web Page”
- Added support to turn web archives into editable rich text files using the “Make Rich Text” menu item
- Added a way to edit textual entries in another application from the Edit menu
- Added a way to insert a picture taken directly from iSight
- Added Blockquote toolbar item
- Added Mood field for entries
- Added Due Date for entries
- Added a “Link” field for entries
- Added browser window for backups with the ability to restore selected entries or all data
- Added simple mbox exporting
- Added EPub exporting
- Added support for import droplets for non-main documents
- Added support for Lion full screen, and renamed the existing Full Screen feature to Focused Editing
- Adding importing of Web Archives by dragging a URL into the sidebar
- Added automatic Picasa configuration for uploading images when auto-configuring a blogger.com blog
- Redesigned the Info Bar to allow for customizing field layouts
- Redesigned the Inspector to show only one section at a time, allowing more information to be in each section, such as the various dates for Journals
- Added support for tags and annotation in HTML exporting
- Added a bunch of easy links to sign up for free blogs when setting up a blog
- Added support for copy and paste of whole entries or journals between documents
- Added “Back Up” menu item to the File menu
- Added an Image Properties window in the Format->Text menu for controlling image sizes
- Before synchronizing a mobile device, a backup is also made of the remote device contents
- Re-implemented encryption support to keep everything in memory and avoid any decrypted content hitting the hard disk
Currently, Mariner Software is offereing the full package of the program at $49.95 and upgrades from prior versions for $19.95. You must be running at least Mac OS X version 10.6.8 in order to use MacJournal 6.0
You can find out more about the program or download a free trial of it at;
