It’s icons were still a bit rough and some of it’s custom widgets could have been cleaner and more uniform. Journler’s internal power was not matched by the sleekest interface. Then, I found a better way to donate than a few dollars. So, instead of buying MacJournal, I was about to donate to Journler. So, being able to have it find all snippets that mention a character or a concept or that i have tagged in a certain way can help incredibly. I am as mentally disorganized as you can imagine. If you’ve ever opened iTunes and made a smart playlist of your “jazz, recently played, but not bee-bop” you may be able to imagine just how useful this program is. I can tag them and make smart folders to sort personal information from work stuff and see all of those places where one’s definitions of such things begins to get blurry. I can link, search, and browse any document on my machine (including PDFs, music files, movies, MS Word documents). it really has become the central way that I interact with my computer. By adding the MetaWeblog API, I can now post directly to Sagefire and have access to all of Journler’s great internal search and linking functions. It had a LiveJournal posting function in v1, but that just was not going to cut it for me. The biggest change from v1 of Journler for me is the ability to post to my blog directly from the program. Just as I was about to finally break down and pay for MacJournal v4, I stumbled across Journler v2. Whenever a new beta of MacJournal would come out, I would test it and totally enjoy the new features, but I could never justify the cost of the upgrade. I had been using an old freeware copy of MacJournal for this site. Journler is a wonderful piece of Freeware. This year, my design obsession has been helping out with a piece of software that has coaxed me away from MacJournal - Journler! This time last year, I was coding Iridium and that took a lot of time and focus. The semester at school was coming to a close among other things and that just got in the way of things like this. I know that I haven’t posted anything new for quite some time. Your time can be invaluable to an overtaxed developer who decided to give away her/his work out of the goodness of her/his heart. Remember, cash is not the only thing of value that you have. Since she is multi-lingual, I suggested that she contact any of these developers and offer to help localize or translate documentation for them. She was grateful for saving a few thousand dollars in costs and wanted to know who to thank. I mention this here because I was helping a friend with her computer and I solved most of her problems with freeware, postcardware, and other opensource software. In the past, I donated time on documentation to such projects as KOffice, Virtue Desktops, Quanta, and Liquid. In this case, I donated my time editing images for icons in the program. I really like Journler, so since money is tight, I donated my time to the project. Not quite freeware, not quite shareware that is a hard niche to fill. Phil Dow, who created Journler listed it as donationware — meaning that if you use it, you should donate something to the continuation of the Journler project. I’ve mentioned before that I write the content that you see here on this site from a program called Journler.
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