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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 22, 2019 at 09:03 AM
Yes, this is a big failing in a wide variety of otherwise perfectly competent apps. It’s one of the very strong points of both MacJournal and Notebooks – both of them immediately highlight hits in individual entries as part of a cross-document search (MacJ even does that in PDFs, and it’s on Alfons’s roadmap). There are other apps that do this, of course (Keep It springs to mind), but for journalling purposes, you can’t really go wrong with MacJ. The timeline feature is an unexpected bonus.
satis wrote:
>It still drives me a little nuts that Day One searches will lead you to
>journal entries but you still can’t find *within* individual entries and
>have to manually scan for what you’re looking for.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 22, 2019 at 12:04 PM
Since MacJournal came up in this thread I will mention that I recently posted about why I have gone back to MJ as my primary digital notebook:
https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/macjournal-still-the-best-notebook-for-macos/
Steve Z.
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 22, 2019 at 07:17 PM
MJ is now at b3.
So far, Notebooks 2 looks like a dressed up version of more-of-the-same—not very exciting. MJ is also pretty much unchanged—except the good news that Schimpf is now interested in it again. It’s a much better journal than Notebooks can be.
MadaboutDana wrote:
Dang, it’s an exciting two-horse race between Notebooks 2 and the latest
>version of MacJournal (beta 2 of 7.0, released this month). They’re both
>very attractive, very powerful, and quite similar.
>
>And hopefully, both going to be available on a pay-once basis, i.e. no
>nasty subscriptions!
>
>As someone mentioned elsewhere, MacJournal 7.0b2 is available from Dan
>Schimpf’s blog at http://danschimpf.blogspot.com
>
>Cheers!
>Bill
Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Feb 22, 2019 at 07:43 PM
I’m getting curious about MJ. The beta is rather buggy, but hey, it’s a beta. Someone (perhaps in this thread, I can’t recall) pointed out something I’d never noticed: when you search in Day One, it does NOT highlight results! That’s crazy! Why would I even bother?
I’m thinking about using MJ for my digital journaling needs, especially since it seems a LOT more flexible at its core.
Paul Korm wrote:
MJ is now at b3.
>
>So far, Notebooks 2 looks like a dressed up version of more-of-the-same
>—not very exciting. MJ is also pretty much unchanged—except the
>good news that Schimpf is now interested in it again. It’s a much
>better journal than Notebooks can be.
>
Posted by satis
Feb 22, 2019 at 11:12 PM
JakeBernsteinWA wrote:
> I’m getting curious about MJ. The beta is rather buggy, but hey, it’s a
>beta. Someone (perhaps in this thread, I can’t recall) pointed out
>something I’d never noticed: when you search in Day One, it does NOT
>highlight results! That’s crazy! Why would I even bother?
That was me. Yes, it’s VERY annoying, especially since I often go back and search calorie counts for my food journal.
Why bother though? Because Day One can do so much else - everything from pulling in social media posts, to taking note of location data and weather for journal entries, to smoothly incorporating photos, audio and video. It has Safari and Chrome browser extensions. And templates. And it now does dictation as well as transcriptions.
So I’ve been holding on, with the understanding that the app is being regularly updated, and hopefully they’ll get their search up to snuff (the same way they overhauled their editor last year so you no longer had to click an EDIT button after selecting an entry).