Ask DLS: What's your favorite Diary app?

I've never listed a diary program on my website, mainly because I've
never found one I felt worthy. Along comes a Chinese product (such a
happy people), now free, that may just well change this:

http://www.efficientdiary.com/

"Efficient Diary is a completely free while still beautiful, easy-to-use
and powerful electronic diary software package.

With its unique and powerful flash full-text search technique, you can
simply enter a word in the diary to quickly find the corresponding
entries! The product has a strong edit function similar to that of
Microsoft Word. You can insert various items such as tables, pictures,
emotions, URLs or even attachments. You can set the background color,
background picture of each diary entry separately so your diary can be
rich and colorful.

The login password is encrypted by the irreversible algorithm of SHA;
besides, the content of the file itself is encrypted so that your private
information is fully protected.

Except for managing diary entries by date, you can also manage it by
hierarchical grouping. There is a Recycle Bin in the software so you do
not need to worry that you may delete a diary entry by mistake. It also
provides various unique features such as you can specify a weather icon
and an emotion icon for each diary entry, can specify importance for
diary entries, and can copy and paste diary entries, etc.

Time marches on, while with Efficient Diary, we can record our
perceptions and experiences along the way. Spend some time with Efficient
Diary each day - looking into today's feelings, recalling the memories of
the past, and expecting the happiness in the future. A happy life can't
be without Efficient Diary!"

Latest Version: 1.0
Requirements: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista

I use Daynotez:
www.natara.com

I don't like the calendar view so I never used any of these. For micro-journalling, I've settled for Google Calendar.

I just like how I can set a green calendar titled pro for when something positive happens and a red colored calendar titled con for something negative.

In the short time, I've tried mingling with actual article length diaries, I found the shareware YeahWrite to be the one that got me most into writing.

I can forget most of the day, see the comfortable screen and soon I'll be typing stuff that I didn't even considered writing when I opened the application. (I didn't want to have a diary but I was following up on an advise given to me in the past on going ahead and writing a journal so I was testing out several diary apps. Paper just didn't do it for me.)

The great thing about the app is that it works decent enough under Wine to be cross platform and the paid version's features are so outdated that you aren't missing anything huge with the free version. Best of all, the free version is a no time limit, no advanced feature included software rather than the often crippled ware apps we see from modern shareware applications.

Hi, I've been thinking about doing this too or maybe even writing a Book... Have you considered setting up your own online Journal App? You can keep it password protected or share it with the World... I have several systems running on my web site and there is one the seem like it would work well for Journaling.
Drupal, a free Open source Web App. I't not too hard to install, especially if you use Godaddy or some Domain - Server Co which automates the process for you, like I do... And there are so many other tings you can do with Drupal too... Here's what I have set up and running on my Drupal App...


Books (which would organize a Journal well too)

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http://www.securejournal.com

it is an online journaling app that keeps info secure. it can be forwarded emails and also archives things for you.

I use penzu.com. I like it, its a pretty simple layout.

Is there a journal software that uses tags? That's all I need, text and tags.

(Blogs are not private enough for me.)

When I do journal digitally, I use TiddlyWiki (http://www.tiddlywiki.com/). It's a self-modifying web page (uses JavaScript). Has tag support and as far as I know there are a fair amount of plugins for it. Very customizable, with some work. Supports tags. Works great in modern superfast JavaScript browsers (e.g., Fx 3, Safari 3 or 4, Opera 10.... doesn't seem to work in Chrome, but then again maybe I don't have the newest version of TiddlyWiki). Searching in it is much better with these browsers than the last generation, speedwise. Uses its own wiki markup or HTML. Works in IE as far as I know.

Hmmmm... guess that's all now. =)

http://www.securejournal.com is my choice. I am not one that likes my journal scattered across the web so I prefer to write on a secure site that encrypts my entries from prying eyes.

BTW, if you didn't notice, you download TiddlyWiki and use it locally.