![]() Status has options to help organize your entries such as not started, underway, needs review and completed. Each entry you create has a title, date, tags, status, priority, rating, size and content. Audio and video recording is done by using the recording bar interface which is built in to MacJournal and can be placed directly in an entry. ![]() Inside an entry you can, of course, enter text either by typing or pasting but you can also insert images and screen captures. In my case I have a journal for work-related information, one for ideas or future products, one for a course I am taking and one for each of the websites I run as WordPress blogs. With MacJournal you create journals which are like separate binders into which you place pages or, as they call them, entries. He’s a nice guy and all, but I thought this would be a good use of the feature to give it a more personal touch. You can record audio entries to your journal or blog and it will even record video with your iSight! You know I said I will post this on my blog? I’m going to use this audio ability to include this recording too so the visually impaired don’t have to rely on Alex to read it to them. MacJournal handles every type of media: text files, PDFs, Quicktime movies, images, and can even store files it doesn’t recognize. Just right for a tool that you can use to get in and get out but yet powerful enough you can perfect your document without ever leaving the program. It is nicer than TextEdit but not as gaudy as Microsoft’s Word. No Windows or Mac Classic interfaces here, it’s pure modern Mac style complete with calendar, inspector, and other well-done panels to help create your masterpieces. The latest version, Version 5, has been rebuilt for Leopard and Snow Leopard and looks absolutely wonderful. There is a full 85-page manual included which is also very well done that covers all the details so you can imagine that there are too many features to cover completely in this format but I’ll hit the highlights. MacJournal is a tool for journaling and blogging and brings together the utility of a nice editor, the tracking of a good organization system, the security of your little sister’s diary – stored in a bank lockbox, and the Mac goodness of simplicity by interfacing well with blogs and other systems automatically. The product I’d like to talk about is MacJournal written by Dan Schimpf and distributed by Mariner Software at. I am also using the product I am reviewing to save the typed version for the show notes and my blog. In celebration of the arrival of my first Mac USB microphone I thought I’d do a review of a product that has really impressed me. This is Jim, aka Deverill, from Key West. How far have we come since I first laid hands on a computer in ’78! ![]() I’ve done magazine reviews in the 80’s but this will be recorded as an audio review for a podcast show. This is a review I did of MacJournal for the Nosillacast Podcast hosted over at – A Technology Geek Podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh Bias! I am posting here because it is a new way of thinking for me… I am an old-school computer geek but the people in the Mac community are changing my perspectives. You can hear the audio file of this review at this link.
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