Maker here. A while ago I wanted to find a journal app that would allow me to type my thoughts and ideas into a stream as if chatting or tweeting. I couldn't find anything. Most current journaling apps are either bloated with irrelevant features or require too much efforts like notifications, answering random questions, multiple taps, too much whitespaces, or forcing you to come up with a title. So I decided to create it using React Native, and V1 was published last year, and had gained a small user base.<p>ZenJournal 2.0 offers a few unique features other than a single-stream focused interface where you can open and type:<p>- Unified search and type: you can type '?' into the log entry point and start searching.
- Discreet Mode: you can double tap your logs and it can obfuscate everything so you can comfortably journal in public spaces or show off your past efforts.
- Pull to graph: you can pull from your stream to see a heatmap of your past 100 days.
- Hashtag auto-suggestion. Organize everything using #hashtags and tap to search.<p>V2 was just made available on iOS App Store today, with Android coming in the following months. Let me know if you have suggestions and feedback. Thank you!
The biggest concern of me with journals is that I'm always afraid that one day the developers will stop developing it, and all my data will be gone.<p>Therefore, I choose some reliable names like Evernote or Wordpress to store my thoughts there. Although agreeably, they are not fast and smooth, they provide reliability. How do you plan to solve this?<p>I believe many people have the same concern as me because personal thoughts are very important.
For me, the killer feature in a journal is that it sends me reminders of what I was doing 1 month/year/etc ago.
I was willing to pay for that feature in the app I use. Maybe it can be useful for your planning.<p>All the other features seem to be spot on!
Well, I am testing this app since yesterday, now I can make some valid points.<p>Things I loved:<p>- Can start typing just after opening the app.<p>- Can add text with line breaks.<p>- The same button to confirm is the button to add a new text.<p>- Clear and dark modes are very nice.<p>- Easy to backup and restore.<p>Things that would improve the app:<p>- Edit previously saved records<p>- Add a field "updatedAt"<p>- Allow the user to quickly sort by "createdAt" or "updatedAt".<p>- Add a marker to show the records that were updated (change the style of datetime, add a dot, an asterisk, etc. anything to show that this record was modified. Or show both datetimes on modified records).<p>I just found one little strange behaviour. If you type just blank characters (spaces and/or LF), it allows you to add the entry.<p>To finish, congratulations for this beautiful application.
Wow, I really like the privacy policy of this app.<p>I think I’d rather use pen & paper for this sort of thing, but I might come back to this to use during times of very light travel
Looks really nice, well done.<p>The video was bit too fast for my slow post-christmas brain (plus fast pace doesn't induce feeling of calm and Zen). Otherwise perfect :)