I’m glad this is free. Day One used to be so good until they converted to a subscription model!

love that, thanks for sharing the great insight, I believe some prompts will help those who are going to start the journey; Sometimes it's hard to know what to write about, especially if you're new to journaling. For the most part, you'll be the only one who reads your journal, so you can write whatever you want. If you need some ideas for what to write about, though, try one of these prompts. 1. List three things you'd like to tell a friend, family member or partner right now. 2. Write three things you love about yourself. 3. What are you grateful for at this moment? 4. What is your favorite childhood memory? 5. Who do you trust the most and why? 6. What motivates you? 7. What is a negative childhood memory that you've been holding onto and how can you work through it? 8. What is one of your biggest regrets and what can you learn from it? 9. What has been one of your biggest accomplishments in your career? 10. What are some of your biggest fears and why? 11. What is your top goal for this year? What about for the next five years? 12. How are you feeling right now? 13. Write three positive things you want to remember if you're having a bad day. 14. How would you describe yourself to someone? 15. What brings you stress and how can you alleviate it?

This is game changer. I hate relying on third party apps with my private information. Hence, I wasn't simply journaling at all. Now this makes me start journaling.

I loved this native Journal app, I hope they launch on Mac too

Thanks for making this all clear and easy to understand and apply.

I also use DayOne and have for a while. I'll be watching to see how this journaling app evolves. Thanks for telling us about it!

Thank you for this video. I’ve always wanted to use the journal app but never quite “got it” because of Apple’s lack of describing it’s real-world functionality - your video did just what Apple didn’t do; present relatable scenarios. Bravo Zulu !!

Helps one become even more absorbed with oneself, live in one's head instead of the real world and lastly take up tons more storage on one's iPhone. iCloud anyone ?

One thing to keep in mind is that afaik it doesn’t actually link to a photo from your library but copies it into the journaling app. Meaning you are actually using up more storage doing so.

Re: typing on Apple Journal - I read a good tip that if you have a Bluetooth keyboard, that can help ease the burden of typing on your iPhone. But I agree, hopefully they'll release an iPad/Mac version. :)

How do you move your journal to another device? What if you buy a new phone?

Looks really interesting. I've been journaling for a few years and find it to be a very healthy habit. I look forward to seeing more people get into it with this app. Great video Peter.

I journal using DayOne twice a day and love how I can create my own headings in journal templates. Like you I use my iPad and Mac. Right now I’d say the Apple app isn’t for me, however that decision is always open to change as the app develops.

Thanks for the overview. How optimistic are you future updates will include archival and exporting options and features?

What is the difference between Notes and Journals ?

It’s a great start but way too simple, oh and don’t forget. If you delete an entrie there is no way to get it back. So be cautious.

Are they going to bring this to the Mac where I can actually type at length?

Sadly suggestions are too late so they are almost worthless :-( Even if I have done workout at day time it doesn't show it at evening but later at night it shows it.

I'm finding it's not curating a lot of suggestions. It's not capturing locations I've been to and when it does I sometimes don't get it until the next day.

Will we have a desktop version? Printable exports?

Apart from search, it also needs an "On this Day" feature to remind you of what you've done years from now, along with some export options. Apple has locked in enough of my data!

Almost all apps are subscription now, I moved all my data out of third party apps and use apple notes. The same with word processors and spread sheets. I’m getting rid of apps that charge a weekly or monthly fees. If I paid for all the apps I’ve used in the past I’d be paying over a hundred dollars a month.

Peter, How do you activate the “Suggestions” to work in Day One?

only one problem it's phone only I loth trying to type on the phone then they add to the mac i may use it

will it have mac app?

How does it compare to Day One?

I dont know why my input text is always on Bold. I change to smaller letter and it goes back bold. I hate that

I've been using Day One for about 10 years now. I was eagerly waiting for Journal to be released. When it was and I tried it, I was suitably unimpressed. No cross-device sync, entries are day based, no option to sort by time of day, one big long list of entries, so no calendar view, etc.. Overall concept seems to be OK, certainly different to what I'm used to. Thanks for the review.

Great Video Peter. I’ll be updating to the newest IOS tonight. I’ve used the DayOne app for about 3 years. Does apple’s app allow for the importation of past journal entries from my Day one app?

I delete it cause it is not available in Macos and ipados . I use Notes for journaling and it is good for me.

How do you plan to use it along with DayOne? Would you use it for different types of journal entries?

So you’re Dutch ?

no it don’t have any moods on there so that’s a no for me

On a Mac, a strong maybe. On an iPhone without dictation entry for text available, not for me.

No, because an iphone 15 pro max has a measly 8gb of ram and no smart stylus. thus, you couldn't give one to me.

I don’t think this will really happen or take off until the Journal app appears on the iPad & the iMac. I do all my journaling in Apple Notes which, because of iCloud services, appears on my iMac, iPhone and iPad. Currently, the Journal app is limited to my slow one finger typing on the iPhone.

No search, no share? Quite useless app for me. (for the moment)

Deleted it not my thing. If a person is inclined to journal things then this is great I suppose.

No search possible and no calendar search. So for me useless.

Does the Journal app combine all your journaling into a summary of what's going on in your life, analyze it, and give you advice on how you can improve? How does the app help you once you've entered in enough journals? What is the end result from journaling? Right now, it seems like a personal kind of Instagram-Twitter(X) hybrid instead of something I could benefit from. I'm sure there's more to it than that, but that's how it seems at the moment.

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It’s a terrible app. It blows. If I am going to journal, I’m going to want to do it on my MacBook Pro, not my phone.

People are that stupid to expose all their life to the big corp? Smh