The Journal is journal writing software developed to keep a journal on your computer. The software allows the user the flexibility, unmatched convenience, and security. The journal is password protected software with encryption that will keep your journal safe and your secrets will remain secret. It is a highly flexible and can be personalized to suit your style.

The Journal is perfect for professionals to keep a track record of your daily progress. Additionally, The Journal has built in features that will help you to remember certain events and important dates.

Not only that, this software will also help you to organize your ideas and is a powerful tool to self-analyze. You can easily record your thoughts and ideas throughout the days. The Journal is truly one of the best journal software for you.

The latest version of The Journal is The Journal 5. Currently, The Journal 5 can be bought online at the developer website for only $49.95. The journal also comes in a 45 days free trial.

OS Requirement

The journal will runs on Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Windows 2000. Additionally, the journal could also be run in any Mac computer by using windows emulator. No notable computer requirement is needed to run the software.

Features

The Journal is linked to your computer and internet date stamp. This makes The Journal into the perfect daily writing tool. The software will always know what time and day it is right now.

It is possible for user to add any entries to the previous page. Since all entries are marked, you can easily navigate journal easily. By using the calendar provided, you could easily see any entry you put in whether it’s yesterday or last month.

The journal has a simple reminder built in into the software. This allows the journal to remind the user for any sort of appointments, tasks, events, and special days. User can also insert entries on any date. It also has an additional built in search tool that enables user to search for word, phrase, or collection of words.

The Journal support linking feature that allow you to link bookmarks, web pages, email address, files, and even any content from any other software. You could even easily post your journal onto most major blog software. When posting, you could easily choose which entries you want to publish and which you want to keep private.

The journal also supports as much categories and topics as you need. User can easily create a new topic or categories and even mark different part of entries with one or more categories. Which literally means, user can easily customize the journal any way he or she wants.

The software comes with a built in state of art encryption and password protection. Additionally, the software comes with a hot key for locking the journal whenever you need to do something else. The Journal also support additional separate password for entries that you want to keep extra private. The Journal also features a built in backup and restore system in case your computer crashes.

The Journal is compatible with a lot of add-on such as extended security and templates for journal. This ensures that you can easily add any feature to your Journal without the need of buying or using any other software.

And lastly, the journal is compatible with a large range of multimedia. This simply means, you can store any type of digital pictures, videos, text, and files into your daily entries. This feature helps user that loves to have images and videos in their journal to capture the exact moment of the day. This feature is exclusive only to the journal.

Pros

The software has built in tools that make it possible for user to search for a certain thoughts or phone number by using word, phrase, or collection of words. The software is also upgraded regularly with patches that improves the software performance and removes glitch or bugs. Whenever a new update is available, all users with Journal 5 can download the update free of cost.

The Journal is considered one of the most inexpensive journal software. With the same price as buying a paper journal, user benefit more from the built in features of the software. Additionally, the developer website offers a 45 days free trial in which user can use practically every feature available from the journal.

The development website also has a list of FAQ that will help new users to adapt to the software in addition to a lot of tips and tricks that will help user when using The Journal.

The Journal also helps new writers by giving a few free writing prompts. This prompts consist of more than 2000 words and phrases that will eventually help improve your writing skills. Another writing prompts will help to stretch the mind of the user when writing memoirs. When combined with MemoryGrabber, The Journal makes it possible to help your parents, grandparents, or even great-grandparents record the exciting story of their life.

Cons

Some of the features are hard to use. Most of these features are not readily available until you search for them. Most time, you will need to hunt for specific button for specific features.

The Journal is still in a part of development process. Hence user may sometimes experience glitches or bugs when using software.

Developer’s website: www.davidrm.com/thejournal