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MacJournal is a program for creating, modifying, and managing a personal journal. It can be used for diaries, logs, most anything. And, because it's written using Cocoa in Mac OS X, it supports all the cool OS X doodads you would expect. Things like toolbars, spell checker, font and color panels, localization, and drawers are all utilized to provide you with a useful and consistent interface with that of Mac OS X.
What's New:
Version 2.6b4:
- Updated Serbian Localization
- Importing text files and trying to discover entries inside the text file will be a lot more forgiving about the date formatting. It should be a lot easier to import text as entries now.
- The topics of special entries like the Locked Journal message and the Empty Search message are no longer editable
- More menu item validation (Paste Style menu items)
- For links the are at the end of a line a space will be appended after the link. This is so when you go back to that line everything you type won't be included in said link.
- Fixed lack of CSS styles after some links/images in HTML exporting
- Locking the journal before commiting a change to the topic will save that change
- Got bored one day and enabled Copy and Paste from the Edit menu and keyboard for the drawers. Copy entries/journals, navigate to another journal, and then paste them.
- Added hidden preference to attempt to wrap text while you are zoomed in: WrapTextWhileZooming. This is still preliminary and has some problems.
- Entry view windows will now have the same background as the main window
- Added a button in the Edit Link sheet to choose an entry instead of a file to link to.
- Fixed the "Friends" setting in LiveJournal
- Creating a new entry with no Entry Template set and then hitting Bold or Italic before typing anything should now work
- Fixed date formatting on in Korean (and possible other places)
- You can now discover entries inside an RTF file while importing it (previously was limited to only plain text files)
- System administrators can now delete locked journal. When trying to delete a locked journal, a standard system password screen will come up. Don't worry: MacJournal will get none of your password; just whether or not the thing succeeded. If it did, the journal will be deleted.
- Improved the treatment of line breaks when exporting to HTML to restore some previous behavior. Lines will now be bookended by
and as in 2.5.
- Locking a journal will close any viewer windows for its child entries
- A few tweaks for Tiger. 2.6 won't have nearly the amount of features for Tiger that 2.5 had for Panther. But a few noticeable things will be there.
- When zooming to less than 100%, the exposed area will now be a shade of gray, which is nicer than the white that was there before.
- The text sent to Blogger and LiveJournal should be a lot more simple now. Before, all the same operations were done it as were done to exported HTML. But Blogger does a lot of formatting itself (line breaks are divined from the text transmitted in and some other styles are done via style sheets). So now MacJournal doesn't try to send any of that stuff. Bolds and italics are still sent (with CSS).
- Changed the default toolbar items around just a bit
- If you are sending to an official Blogger server (*.blogger.com), we will try to use the Blogger 2 API. This will mean the title can be sent. Use a hidden pref BloggerProtocol, introduced in the previous build, to control this all the time. Set it to Blogger2API to force Blogger 2 all of the time, and use BloggerAPI to force the default Blogger AP
- Use the Insert Date and Time menu item in the Entry Template to insert a tag that will update when you create a new entry. It looks like <$DateAndTime$>. For some undocumented fun, try out <$CurrentArtist$> and <$CurrentSong$>.
- Implemented type-ahead support in the tables. When the focus is in a drawer, start typing the name of a journal or entry to select it.
- You can now drag attachments (pictures, etc.) away from MacJournal into the Finder. You can also double-click them to launch in a separate viewer.
- Selecting multiple objects in the drawers will no longer change the viewed entry
- The Preferences window will no longer have the toolbar button in the title bar
- The Delete toolbar item will no longer allow "click-through" (clicking it from a different application)
- Jaguar users will see the old word count behavior because apparently the new behavior didn't work. Panther and above will still see the better version (that can handle Asian languages).
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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Comment by Systemic Anomaly: I absolutely love this app! It is so very easy to get acclimated with and it offers everything you would want in a journal. This is one of the best journal apps that I've seen and it's freeware! Dr. Dan has done a great job adding features that you need and nothing you don't. 5 stars! (8/13/2004, Version: 2.6b4)
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Comment by K.C.Walter: What a great program! I've enjoyed it for years, and it just gets better and better. Thanks so much. I especially appreciate the fact that it's free for us have-not-so-muches. (8/12/2004, Version: 2.6b4)
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Comment by Phil Rupp: Over the last three years, each time I lose a drive, or change computers, some how I lose my journals. Not your fault at all. What all this is coming to is that I find I keep needing this wonderful memory manager. I appreciate your effots at making this so easy to use, and for me, indispensible. I keep coming back.
philrup@umich.edu (8/11/2004, Version: 2.6b4)
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Review by Dana Sutton: Sometimes the quality of freeware can be amazing. The author of this thing is a real hero, he's put a lot of hours into writing and perfecting it as a pure labor of love. If anybody were to compile a freeware Top Ten, surely macjournal would deserve to be included. (8/10/2004, Version: 2.6b4)
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