JRNL

Thank you so much for this app. It has been helping me journal my mental health. I always found it hard to write it down in a notebook and I HATE using phone notes or Word/Google docs.

This app is literally perfect for my personal Journal Laptop.

5/5 Again, thank you so much, its life changing for me.

I get here to make a comment how I like that if I insert a picture the app save that image in the journal file encoded in base64 and that way it saved with the journal entry and remain after years and years.

I think this little program is good. It lacks a few features but it's good.

So I'm a little sad now that I saw the abandonware notice.

Thanks blarfnip for this little application.

I never wrote a journal before. I don't know why. Maybe I didn't see the use of it.

Then I tried JRNL a few weeks ago and a few times a week I wrote about my day.

I wrote down my accomplishments, however small they may be.

I wrote about my positive moments in my day.

Somehow it's feels good. I don't really know why. I just write down that's already happened. It's not a fantasy or something.

Just a journal.

I really love this app and have started to use it daily. I know it has a spell checker but it would be cool if it had auto correct or even suggestions. It ends up telling me I spelled a word wrong and then I have to google the correct way to spell it.

i would do anything for an image embed option!!!

Very nice tool! I've been using this now and then for about half a year. Is this still in development? I hope there will be feature such as attaching word/video files, and keyword searching (which would be helpful when looking back) in the future.

Hey all! quick question here, not sure if i'll get a response. How would I run an export of my previous journals? Just wanted to test the functionality and I can't spot it within the portable version.

Got this in the charity bundle! Just wanted to say thank you for making such a wonderful little app. It has been extremely helpful for me! Love the minimalist approach.   

This is a very usefull software that makes daily journaling easier by automatically tracking and assigning entries to dates. And I dont know anything that suites this specific function so easily while being simple and quick to start So I really appreciate it. I want to give this a good rating but as of now there is some polish and maybe additional features I'd like to see first. And I dont know if I can change my rating after I give one. as of now I would give this 4/5. Partially because right now I dont know anything as well designed as this for this specific purpose. Obsidian has great features and customization but set up is genuinely daunting. And I think with time this journal could strike the perfect balance. (also props for being visually appealing)

Bug I noticed: sometimes the format pop up behaves strangely and I click through it rather than the buttons themselves. When this happens I have to click the bottom 1/4th of the button in order to get it to work. This only occurs when the window starts running out of space towards the bottom of the screen.

Feature Suggestions (if planning to develop this further)

• Hotkey config
• Custom font choice for accessibility. You could make it uploadedable but having the OpenDyslexic  font family built in would also be GREATLY appreciated. (I have Dyslexia)
• Multiple calendar views you can switch between, previewing a whole year, a month, or a week.
• option to show the day number on the boxes, on-hover, or both as options.
• Option to preview entry on hover
• Checkboxes, maybe counters too. (counters might be redundant)

I love using this, I've been journalling consistently for about a month now, where I used to always fall off after doing it a couple of times. Really simple, and easy to use, and looks great.

How can I turn off the spellchecker?

The portable version won't open for me, is there anything i should do? Like decrompress all of the pak files?

I downloaded the portable one because I prefer portable versions of things if possible. I had to edit the config.json because the window size defaulted to wider than my screen and the gear icon was impossible to find, as well as the close button.

So... if someone else has issues use notepad++ to edit the "width" and "height" in the "WindowBounds" section.

Also reading other replies I see I could have just double clicked the top bar. Oh well, Live and learn!

I downloaded the 1.0.0 one because I assumed Portable meant it was for Android devices. It didn't have a settings button, and the few paragraphs that I put into the first entry yesterday, the first journal entry I've made in years, was deleted when I sat down at my computer today. This already feels like a breach of trust for a program meant to safeguard my thoughts.

I'll give the 2.0.0 and JRNL one more try. The settings tray works, but we'll see if it decides to delete my entry instead of safeguarding it the next day.

Hey, just a little bug! The journal loses all writing you've done from the time you change the "close-to-tray" settings to the time you restart the app. In other words, after changing those specific settings, nothing from that point on will be saved until after you restart JRNL.

Hey are you working on an android version perhaps, this could be really neat for my morning schedule.

It doesn't support spanish characters when exporting to html :/

I'm liking this so far!  I got this in a charity bundle, and I'm pleasantly surprised that this tool seems pretty useful.

Does anyone know where in the config file I can modify the font?  I happened to need to type something that makes it very unclear whether things are lowercase o's or zeros...

Why the settings menu goes missing time to time :...3

Absolutley love it!

A feature I would love to see would be to allow for the use of different fonts! Cant be a good journal without comic sans

Also, as has also been meantioned by another user, disabling spell checker would be really nice :)

I love the 2.0 update, I'm glad I switched to the portable version. There are a couple of issues when running it on Windows 10 though.

1) "open config file" and "show config file in explorer" buttons do nothing for me. I manually found the file anyways since it's in the same folder as the exe, but still.

2) There is a small visual issue, as shown even in your gifs, that with some themes the "< >" have two small dark dots, which are very visible when using a light color for the "selected entry color" setting.

3) I can't seem to find the pdf manual that other people are talking about in the comments?

Finally two suggestions:

1) it would be nice if the month names were customizable or if they'd follow the spellcheck language (i.e. in my language - Italian - the abbreviations are GFMAMGLASOND instead of JFMAMJJASOND)

2) It would be a QoL improvement if the spellcheck enable/disable and the language picker were in the cogwheel settings instead of having to go to %appdata%\jrnl and manually edit the code. Again not a big issue for some of us, but others might find it bothersome.

All in all I love the software, it's a bit unpolished/tech-savvy but it's really good imho. Most journaling tools for Windows are ugly as hell or absolutely impractical, while this is very aesthetically pleasing and minimal while still being functional.

hello! my jrnl does not have the lil gear tool in the bottom right corner, should i download the portable one instead to have that??

heyyy, uh. i just got a blank screen window after installing jrnl. i cant do anything with it.

I plan on opening this on startup and was curious if you knew a way to get it to start minimized in the taskbar.

I program games in my free time and was curious if you wouldn't mind sharing how you got your app to minimize to the taskbar? I want to make an organizational tool for storing code snippets that can minimize like your journal app and I have no idea where to begin.

yeah nice burp and fart

This is a great app that has reignited my habit of writing daily, but there seems to be a nasty bug that wipes the last-open entry when JRNL is closed. I don't know what exactly is behind it (possibly Summernote unloading early and causing the program to overwrite the journal file with empty data?), but until the author releases a fix, to prevent this on my end I've disabled save-on-close by commenting out the saveFile() line under the windowClose event trigger in JRNL\resources\app\body.js, like so:

ipcRenderer.on('windowClose',(event, arg) => {
    if(autoSaveInterval != null) {
        clearInterval(autoSaveInterval);
    }
    saveConfig();
    //saveFile(currentDateString);
});

Downside is you need to be sure to hit Ctrl+S or load another day to save the current entry before closing JRNL, but it beats randomly losing an entire entry on shutdown.

why does it keep deleting my entries right after i write them this is so irritating

this looks so cool! any plans to port it to mobile?

Really nice program! I've been using it for couple of days and enjoying it!

Pros:

•  Sleek and minimal design
• You can change the theme to be completely customised by you or choose from really nice pre-existing ones
• You can change how big the font is in the program so you can actually read settings and stuff
• Simple editing
• Cheap
• Does what it promises
• You can easily see which days have journal entries and read them. 
• Very simple to use and easy to learn

Cons:

• You can't add new words and only language the program supports is English. Though its not that big of a deal.
• Editing size of pictures can be tricky (I accidentally made mine so small it deleted itself multiple times)

Honestly both cons are minimal and don't really matter in the long run. 

As someone who has gone through A LOT of journaling apps/programs I can't recommend this enough!

Hey Hey, love the program! The interface is sleek and clean. It makes me enjoy actually writing about my day (mango theme is top tier).