Journal App

[Deleted User]

I've look around but haven't found an app that would meet my needs completely.

I need a journal app that works on android and syncs with either the web or a windows app. Something along the lines of Journal in Microsoft Outlook would be great. Ideally it would accept voice notes and pictures also (attachments a plus).

After searching the web I see Evernote mentioned a lot... and I already use it for specific projects, but it seems like too much work to create a different note every day. I would rather that be done automatically. Also I would like the option to browse for notes using a traditional calender layout, but that's not absolutely necessary.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[funkylogik]

Theres some suggestions here mate :thumbup:
http://androidforums.com/showthread.php?t=710972

 

[ardchoille]

I've look around but haven't found an app that would meet my needs completely.

I need a journal app that works on android and syncs with either the web or a windows app. Something along the lines of Journal in Microsoft Outlook would be great. Ideally it would accept voice notes and pictures also (attachments a plus).

After searching the web I see Evernote mentioned a lot... and I already use it for specific projects, but it seems like too much work to create a different note every day. I would rather that be done automatically. Also I would like the option to browse for notes using a traditional calender layout, but that's not absolutely necessary.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I use Google Drive for journaling. I've created a folder in Drive for each year; Journal_2013 with subfolders for each month; 2013_04. Each daily entry is a file with the date; 2013_04_15.txt. At a glance I can see which day any file is for and everything syncs to my Chromebook, android devices, desktop computers, etc.

I suppose you could create a new calendar in Google Calendar just for journals and just use each day as its own daily journal, that gives you a calendar layout and separates entries according to date. Google Calendar takes care of syncing.

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the help. I'm probably going to go with Diaro at this point. Syncing with the web app requires pro version for $4, which is a little steep for an Android app, but if it does what I want probably worth it.

I'm going to mess around with Evernote a little more, but at this point it just doesn't seem worth the trouble. Ard your system won't really work because I need the ability to search and maybe categorize entries.

 

[Eugene]

Basicaly a journal is just a slightly different calendar entry. Most PIM/calendar/etc apps are based off the icalendar standard which defines appointments, tasks and journals. Newer versions can read/write .ics files rather then the .pst format of the past.
So since google didn't implement the journal type in their implementation I just started making calendar entries for journaling.

 

[Deleted User]

Basicaly a journal is just a slightly different calendar entry. Most PIM/calendar/etc apps are based off the icalendar standard which defines appointments, tasks and journals. Newer versions can read/write .ics files rather then the .pst format of the past.
So since google didn't implement the journal type in their implementation I just started making calendar entries for journaling.

There are a few limitations with Google Calender. One being that I don't want journal entries cluttering up my calender. I would essentially have to create another Google account and use a third party Android calender app to keep it completely separate from my other calenders (which is an option).

I also would really like the ability to add categories... and the closest Google Calenders has is those color identifiers (I still don't understand why they haven't added the ability to name those).

I'll mess around with Google Calender a little to see what I can work out.

 

[Eugene]

I'm looking for a better calendar that can do things like categories.

Using Gogle calendar for a Journal you just create a separate calendar, then you cen just select or unselct your calendar or journal to view one of the other or both. Thats what I'm doing now. Then I have a separate calendar for each of the kids.

 

[sfbloodbrother]

I've look around but haven't found an app that would meet my needs completely.

I need a journal app that works on android and syncs with either the web or a windows app. Something along the lines of Journal in Microsoft Outlook would be great. Ideally it would accept voice notes and pictures also (attachments a plus).

After searching the web I see Evernote mentioned a lot... and I already use it for specific projects, but it seems like too much work to create a different note every day. I would rather that be done automatically. Also I would like the option to browse for notes using a traditional calender layout, but that's not absolutely necessary.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

The best I can think of is getting a Galaxy Note tablet, and use S note. I have not found a quality app from the play store for notes/journal. However, Samsung really innovated the tablet with S Note. I'll be getting one for Graduation for college next year.

 

[Deleted User]

I'm looking for a better calendar that can do things like categories.

Using Gogle calendar for a Journal you just create a separate calendar, then you cen just select or unselct your calendar or journal to view one of the other or both. Thats what I'm doing now. Then I have a separate calendar for each of the kids.

I think I'm going with Google calendar for now. I have a second Google account and I just created multiple calendars for categories. I only sync that account with acalendar, so it's kind of like my dedicated journal app, and my official Google calendar app isn't congested. Not perfect but free.

Now I might try to find a Windows app that can sync with Google calendar so I have better offline access.

Thanks for the help.

 

[Eugene]

I've tried a couple different sync apps but always ran into issues. For now I'm using the lightning plugin for Thunderbird and the google calendar plugin for that.
This leave google the master copy though so I found I can use wget with the calendar URL's and download a full copy for a backup. So I just have a scheduled job that downloads once a month, renames with the monthname/year in it and moves to a backup folder.
I have another thread related to calendaring, my long term goal is to eliminate the google part of the equation, i.e sync straight from my system to the phone but there doesn't seem to be much ou there for that.