Moleskine Journal

I’ve been waiting for a solid journal app from Moleskin and for the most part it doesn’t disappoint. It keeps it simple and doesn’t over due it with adding too many cluttered features in one app. All formatted well and is smooth like you would expect. BIG issue is I can’t find my past journal entries without digging through the calendar day by day. I don’t journal entry every day, so If I want to find out when my last entry was their is NO indicator on the calendar to find an entry. There is NO section of the app where it has all journal entries back to back where you can scroll through entries you’ve made over a period of time with gaps. There is NO search function I could find to look up an entry, which is a missed opportunity to add. Only thing I can find is the AMOUNT of entries I’ve done but I can’t like select it and see them back to back. You literally have to go into calendar and keep swiping right until you find the most recent entry, swiping back each week or guess the week on the calendar. Again it’s a bigger issue for me since I do not entry regularly, I do it periodically. So I’ve noticed every time I return to the app It takes to long to find my previous entries to see where I was a couple weeks ago, months ago, etc. Daily users probably won’t have the same problem, but adding a search function or a quick scroll page to go through all entries with the date and key words/sticker from the entry would be big.

Journey is one of those magical apps that provides what I’ve been looking for for years, even though I had never quite figured out for myself what I needed. (My search for good task management started with a Palm Pilot.) This turns out to be the customizable My Day view, which shows my tasks for the day, calendars (four of them, from various sources), habits that I’m working on, and ongoing projects, all in a single view. One major thing missing, which cost the app a star, is the ability to integrate with my existing Reminders. Although Reminders has never worked for me for daily task management, I do use it for tracking long-term tasks, like changing the heater filter half-way through winter every year. Because these are long-term tasks, it’s important to me to keep them in a shared location that follows me wherever my task and calendar management wander. In the “would be nice” category, I would like the ability to exclude specific Planner events from the My Day view. Since most of my calendars are shared, they include some events that are there for other people - *I* don’t need to be reminded when my work day begins and ends each day, for example.

This app has given me a new perspective to life. I am naturally a planner and professionally I coordinate programs and projects. So, I am inclined to organize and plan my life though I have often failed at it. This app combines many aspects of what you need in a day to feel grateful, balanced and productive. I absolutely love it. I have previously used many apps to do the same things I can now do in one. Great interface and very easy to use. I also use Timepage and together they are comprehensive. I look forward to future updates to this app and would like to see a few minor things. For example, I wish I could set days for my challenges. I like intermittent fasting but not on Sundays. So, I wish there was a way to select the days because then it would not mess up my score. I am also an Apple Pencil user (first generation) and would love to write in the journal section. However, this may be a non-factor with the upcoming Apple Scribble. I would also like widget support. Overall, this app is phenomenal and a game changer for managing yourself daily. I also like the project section and started using that section to keep track of the books I want to read in the year broken out by month, etc. I find this section fantastic for those smaller projects the pop up. This app along with my project planning and project management app completes me!