ViJournal also features a Full Screen Edit mode, in which everything goes away except the journal entry itself and you can write away unhindered. Alternatively, you can opt to detach a Entries floater and a Month floater which you can resize and move about to suit your preference. I wonder what I was doing on this day, ten years ago.īrowsing through years worth of accumulated journal entries is easy thanks to a iTunes-like browsing method using Volumes (years), Months and Entries (both by date and by subject). The scratch pad, combined with the possibility to insert lists and check boxes makes it easy to make "To Do" lists and keep track of important things. The Notepad drawer is split into two panes: the notes pane which is unique to each journal entry and the scratch pad pane which caries over from one day to the next. The Drop Box also has one pesky limitation and that is not being able to create folders. Furthermore, when you drop a text file into a journal, the entire document gets inserted, which can be a royal pain if you only wanted one or two paragraphs. At the bottom of the Drawer is a preview in which, however, you cannot scroll, and while images may be resized for best fit, you can only view the first few lines of text files. Any file can be dragged from the Drop Box into the journal entry or the Notes drawer and it will be embedded.
The Drop Box references files you add to it (only text or images) and can be viewed and sorted in several different ways. There are two drawers, Notes and Drop Box, each of which can be hidden or shown at will. The main window has two Safari-like tab bars, one for journals and one for sub entries, both of which can be hidden if you do not need them. Each type of link is color coded so you can easily tell the difference. The hyperlinks can be of three types, pointing to either a location on the web, a local file or another journal entry. All you have to do to see the full sized image is hover the mouse over the thumbnail, and you can zoom in, zoom out and toggle transparency all with the quick press of a key. The thumbnail gallery is visible at the bottom of the journal, like a footer and doesn't take up much space. Images can be either embedded into the journal entry or referenced in a thumbnail gallery that is unique to each day. You can add images, tables, lists, check boxes and even hyperlinks. One of the typical limitations of traditional journals is that, besides writing in them, there isn't anything else you can do. You can, for example, keep one for personal notes, one for work related things and another for blogging.Īlternatively, if you would rather only keep one journal, you can still keep all that diversity by splitting up your daily entries into as many separate sub-entries as you like. It doesn't limit you to one journal, so you can have as many as you like. "How limited!" you might think, but that is not the case.Īlthough, like in a real journal, each viJournal represents a day, the program offers a great deal of flexibility. On the other hand, there are those of us who keep a steady journal, or even a blog, and viJournal is an ideal program for doing just that.ĭesigned to be as similar as possible to the old-fashioned, one page a day diary, it allows you to write your entries under dated headers, and keeps them all together by month and year. Some of us have never been able to hold a diary, whether because we can't be bothered, are too lazy or disorganized.
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