![]() ![]() MacJournal is built upon the writing tools built into Mac OS X, the tools you see and use in TextEdit. Mariner tech support was very helpful and they said they are working on a fix. In version 6, you can even create a book from a journal by exporting to ePub, though I experienced a problem exporting journals containing pictures. You can also print your journals, send an entry to someone by email, or create an iCal entry from a post. This takes a difficult technical problem and handles it about as nicely as it could be handled. The result? The blog displayed online exactly as I expected. After that, images dragged into my journal entry were uploaded to Picasa Web Albums, the text of the entry was uploaded directly to Tumblr, and the pictures were referenced. I configured my Tumblr info inside MacJournal to use a Picasa Web Albums account. MacJournal helpfully lets you know this and instructs you to create a separate upload location for pictures. Uploading images can also a bit roundabout depending on the restrictions set by the online services Tumblr’s blogging API, for example, doesn’t support direct upload of images. You can’t edit your blog’s HTML in MacJournal but that could be a good thing for folks unfamiliar with HTML coding. I had no problems posting to WordPress and Blogger, though working with Tumblr is a bit hit-or-miss. It took only a minute or two to let MacJournal know about my blog accounts at all three services. I work with both WordPress and Blogger fairly often and have worked with Tumblr occasionally, and it is a bit vexing to have to deal with the different online tools. ![]() MacJournal is especially useful if you blog at more than one service and want to be able to keep track of what you’ve said across blogs, with a single, excellent user interface. On the other hand, if you want to share your thoughts, MacJournal is designed to help you with that, too-it is one of the best blog editors I’ve used. But MacJournal is a much more generally useful tool and a broader description might be appropriate, say, a personal writing organizer.īlog Entry: MacJournal can be used to post entries to several different blog services. There are plenty of folks who do need to keep daily journals, either for personal or business reasons. ![]() MacJournal is usually categorized as “journal” software. As a way of organizing or managing your writing, it may be without rival. Nevertheless, as a writing tool, it is pretty versatile and generally capable. It’s not a really a page editing tool, either, or an outliner. It isn’t trying to replace Word, at least for business or academic purposes: MacJournal doesn’t offer change tracking, footnotes, endnotes, or indexing. Mac App Store link) offers a remarkably good compromise. Another way to describe it would be to say there are way too many options. One way to describe the landscape is to say there is something for just about everybody. Then there are basic text editors, advanced text editors, idea management tools, screenplay-writing applications, notetakers, desktop blogging applications, simple writing tools that emphasize attractive font design, outliners, scrapbooks, and many other genres that I’m forgetting. Pages ’09 ), and apps that you can use in your web browser ( Mellel), others that specialize in page creation ( Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 ( ), there are word processors that specialize in handling foreign languages ( Boy, there are a lot of writing applications on the market now.
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