Journler Rocks!
I am writing this post from a very cool piece of software called Journler created by Phil Dow. Not only is Journler a highly functional journaling/blogging tool, it is a great example of why people love Macintosh software — great integration with iLife and various other OS X features and a beautiful, intuitive, efficient interface. As if that weren’t enough, it’s FREE. Assuming this blog post goes well, I’ll be making my donation today.
Hat tip to FreeMacWare for the pointer to Journler.
[UPDATE: although I still think Journler is a very nice application, the blogging features have left much to be desired. Of course, as freeware, there’s not much use in desiring new features — I had a nice interaction over email with the author of the software, but he doesn’t seem terribly interested in expanding out the blogging features of the program. The most obvious issue is that a “blog entry” is really totally separate from the journal entry — if you edit one, the other does not change. The “blog” feature is really just a convenience to post a journal entry to a blog once after it’s all ready to go (no editing of blog entries, for instance). Also, I like to write my blog entries in plain text and insert my own HTML when needed — you can do this in the “blog entry” screen of Journler but not in the main journal entry screen.]