Grid Diary - Journal, Planner

It's taken me a few years to write a review, but finally here we are!!! Firstly, for some context, I began journalling in 2018 at boarding school. When I came home in 2019 I really enjoyed looking back at how I was thinking and what I was experiencing. I wanted to digitize everything. I didn't digitize it using this app for complicated and unncessary-to-explain reasons, but I revelled in the thought of having a digital journal going forward, something that was made for journalling and being able to search through it. In 2022 I found this app. I'm still working on the habit where I write in it every day, but today I logged in after not using it for a few weeks and perused through my memories that popped up and played with the search feature. I absolutely LOVE this app, it was everything I was searching for and I'm eternally grateful for it. I'm happy to have been supporting the developers through the subscription and every feature is just perfect. It has more features than I could've imagined! I could never have come up with those journal prompts on my own. I love having a daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly template so I can look back on any aspect I want. I really can't express enough how much I love this app and I hope it never goes away!

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE everything about this app, and even pay the premium membership. The only addition that would be super cool to see would be some place you could have a checklist of things that repeat to each day on a daily grid or something. That would be the ultimate app for me, and I would be a forever customer, as long as you can fix one thing: I do a lot of memory journaling for my kids to have one day, so I use this a lot to quickly write down my thoughts and happenings throughout the day until I can spend the time to make it "pretty" in my physical journal. But you guuuuyyys. The syncing has to get better. Sometimes I will input things on my phone, sometimes my MacBook. And a lot of the time they don't crossover and once and a while disappear completely. These are my memories! My kids milestones! This can't be happening. I will be a forever yearly premium customer if I feel confident my memories aren't going to be lost... and right now I'm not confident. It's so frustrating!

Since becoming a teacher I have reflected a lot as an educator in order to improve my own teaching style and model for my students what it means to put effort towards improving. Now having kids of my own reflecting on how fast they actually grow and develop becoming the humans beings they will be. Grid Classic 2 allows me to reflect on how fast they are growing up, they seem like new people every week. GC2 allows me to change topics as different things become more pertinent in raising them and their own interests change, and when ready I can share with them all of my joys, mistakes, worries, fears, pride, and resilience in parenting and enjoying who they are and are becoming. You’ve made a great app that is user friendly and incorporates so much. Thank you for your efforts. I cant wait to look back years down the road, shake my head and laugh at tragic comedy that is day to day parenting.