How many moments in your day worth writing in your diary?

Life may not be as high as the light of humanity, writing a diary is a self-oriented work, a history book written to itself, retrieving order from the mud, making a difference in the mediocrity, and confronting the Albinhos oblivion curve.


In June this year, Apple announced a brand-new original app:Journal. By definition, it's a digital diary with a cell phone.



At the end of October, Journal finally showed up on the iOS 17.2 test edition. Once the system had been updated, it appeared on the main screen, waiting for the user to unsealed it.

Paper notes, social media, third-party diary software can be used to record life, but Apple’s own digital diary is somewhat different.
Intuitive 3D canvass, broken life manual [/ size]


The first time I opened Journal, my impression of it was "intuitive." The bottom "+" silently reminds us that it is time to break the blank canvas and start writing something.

What I insist on using for a few days is the simpleness of Journal, which is not much of a function but enough, and not much difference between the workload and the writing of a circle of friends and microblogging.

The handwritten notes can only be entered into text, and if there are fragments that you would like to archive at the time of reading, you can also scan the text and save it, adjusting at most a few formats, such as bold, underlined, etc.



Compared to paper journals, the digital diary wins with more detail, and the stereo presents dimensions that paper cannot convey. Location, photo selection, real-time photo or audio recording ... These features of Journal are useful and easy to handle and are readily available.

Apart from this, the templates, tagging, etc. that are applied to third-party journals are not available at the moment. In this way, it also lowers my psychological threshold, like another random memo.

Most of my life is made up of water bills, and I'm used to having Journal record three meals a day, three exercises at night, weekend trips and friends' parties, even in a passing mood. The Lord eats and eats and eats and eats and eats, and does not exceed his will.



It doesn't necessarily make sense, as long as it's true in a day, to write for itself, which is an irretrievable personal experience, a thread of life.

The diary is a personal history and time is an essential element, and the time of handwritten writing is by default the day of the new handwritten writing, but the date can also be changed to the time of the event, or fully defined, even on a future day.



The time of the photographs, videos, etc. will not change, and a handwritten memory will be stamped on the memory when it is seen.



However, handwritten notes do not necessarily have to be based on life under the line, and when using other apps, they can be shared with Journal if the page has a "share sweet" function.

For example, after sharing a piece of Avenger's story with Journal, the link and title appear by default, and it's good for a little post-read.



One of the campaigns that was completed in the keep, one of the inspirations that was struck in the memo and one that was heard in Apple Music can also be recorded.

And that's when Journal became my flow book, a fish-and-worker manual, a debris information collection box, with no friends' circle, no hard labour, no big talk, and broken thoughts are the bottom line of life.

Similar to the handwritten notes, the handwritten notes are simply and bluntly intuitive.

Compared to the third-party diary application, Journal does not have a "day of the year", cannot search by a custom label, and cannot pick out a day in the calendar view.



The only way to look at Journal is to scroll the browsing in chronological order, with a simple filtering function. If one of the handwritten notes is of particular importance, add a "bookmark" to the right and dream back to the easy-to-plug secondary school.
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"What should I write? I'm sorry.

"Blank document phobia" with no first line of reference may dispel the idea of writing journals. But I didn't experience this problem when I used Journal.

Not because my life is so interesting, but because Journal's most powerful and interesting function -- "handwritten advice" -- automatically sorted out some important moments, which is the first draft at the time of writing, and writing a diary does not have to be the burden of brain drain.

I love to look at the "Recent Visit" page, because Journal offers very specific personalized advice, based on recent events, and even integrates material, such as music and podcasts that were seen yesterday, walking this morning and songs that were being heard.



When the material is ready, a "pen" at the lower right corner can be edited, or the handwritten notes can be generated directly from the original or deleted or reduced to avoid a 100 per cent review.



The "Recommended" page next to it is somewhat similar to the "Recent Visit" and can automatically look back on a part of the past that takes pictures, listens to music, calls, etc. If you set the calendar on the iPhone calendar app and navigate with the map app, the location and location that you have been to may appear here.



The mechanism for "recommended" operations is not made public, but, in practical terms, other primary apps that use apples more frequently generally attract the attention of Journal. In a way, Journal, like we're using the iOS system, gives us algorithm-based integration.

In addition to that, the "recommended" will launch some positive "retrospective" topics, each of which will be refreshed several times, and there will always be those who can open their mind to writing, just like ChatGPT.



These individualized proposals will accumulate and update over time, and when we start using Journal, it will begin to learn through end-of-equipment machines to generate tailor-made proposals based on the user ' s recent activities.

Journal is so smart that it hides in the "sets" that we can control what data it uses (sports, music, photographs, places, contacts, etc.) or turn all these switches off and do exactly what we think.



Not only is it original app applied, but apples also provide handwritten advice to third-party diaries developers API, so that these applications can also introduce personalized advice from Journal.

Journal's recommendation reminds me that life is a collection of debris, stereo, multimedia, and that people can do a lot at the same time.

For example, when we were wearing Apple Watch listens to Podcast walking in the park, the cat in front of us turned on the camera. After that, Journal suggested that we make a manual of photos, location, podcasts, etc., and just add additional text.



If mobile phones are the best to know our personal devices, then Journal is probably the best to know where we've been, who we've talked to, how many photos we've taken, how many exercises we've done, what music we've listened to, and what parts we're trying to relive.

The same is true of third-party digital journals, such as Day One, which record not individual abstract people, but our interaction with things around us. In one piece, Day One, you find other things that are going on at the time of writing the diary -- the place, the music that you're listening to, the state of activity, the number of steps that you're counting, and even the weather and the moon.



Image by Day One

The advantages of "digital journals" are best reflected in the fact that the details of the environment are automatically recorded without great detail. A good diary application should make it easier for users to keep records at all times, while establishing a personalized system of coordinates that is inaccessible to paper journals.

While teaching you to do your diary, Journal follows the principles of apples, with special emphasis on privacy and safety. The handwritten notes suggest that iPhone is generated by end-of-equipment processing technology and that we control the type of data that is included. Handwrittens can also synchronize iCloud, ensuring end-to-end encryption. Your hands are only in your hands, even apples can't read.



Apple also knows that the diary is personal and, most of all, that it is freely viewed, that it is popular in primary school with a password lock, and that it is a digital diary that can be locked with a device password or face ID. In any form, the diary is supposed to be "a room of its own" like the author Woolf's book name.
Simple is also an option that makes it easier to write a diary to become a habit [/ size]


When third-party diary applications mature, why would apples put out a seemingly unsure diary?

Health is a very important area for apples and a promising market, Apple Watch and "health" apps, which help users detect, track and manage all aspects of everyday life.

I often use apples' "health" apps to record instant emotions and daily moods and to fill in the associated influence factors as if they were writing a very simple diary.

If you stretch Viddu to a month, you find emotions like bells, because weather, sleep, exercise, and so on, turn between "a little unhappy" "a little unhappy" and "a little happy" and maintain "energy for all."



Photo by Health.

Knowing how emotional and why it fluctuates, there is more control over life. The same is true of journal writing, the Halfway Journal, more like adding bricks to apple health, learning user-authorized data that gives us a clearer sense of the dynamics of everyday life.

Of course, the song you've heard doesn't represent you, it just reflects a certain state of affairs at a certain point in time, like Journal can't cover all the important moments you think it is, and it's based on data that makes a possible judgment. Man is still the leading actor in the diary, whose essence is to express and reflect on himself.

Currently, Journal is just an iPhone app that cannot be used in Mac and iPad. There's no guarantee of the future, since the iPhone is a personal device with us in the morning and in the morning, maybe it'll understand how apples start with Journal.



I've been on the iPhone memo all the time on the way to commuting or eating, so I don't want to see any of the sudden ideas disappear.

Light Journal is also suitable for hand-to-hand use, competing with degraded memory. The collection of photos, videos, music, etc., has allowed us to revisit certain precious moments, like the "reminiscent" function in the apple album, which has shaped a sense of ritualism for a peaceful life.



Photo by: Photo by Memories

Journal does not have much of a basic function now, much smaller than a mature third-party diary application like Day One. But simple is also an option, with the core of photo, audio, positioning, etc., already available and free of charge, unlike some applications that subscribe to advanced versions to add voice, video, etc.

Journal is a better "emotional trash can" than social media. My community of micro-credit friends has been missing since graduation, and groups are prone to errors and are forced to wear a silent mask. After using Journal, I was less "crazy" in social media, and emo literature, and the "visiting records" of Twitter were even more suffocating.



The short handbooks, which are easier to keep, are probably better than the long diary of three days of fishing and two days of sunning. If you think you're not very good at remembering, you can have Journal remind you of the moment.

A fixed reminder can break up a confused mind at some point, forcing our minds to calm down, to be used to thinking about people and things that have been going on in a day, to know what a life they're going through.

Journal is simple, convenient, smart, but it's just the primary form, and there's a long way to go. If you've never been used to writing journals, spend a few more minutes a day trying to open the door to the new world with Journal.