28 March 2010
MacJournal For iPhone
About two weeks ago, I replaced Journler with MacJournal, which I received in the latest MacHeist NanoBundle. I have added the new MacJournal iPhone application and it has improved my journaling tremendously. I can now write my journal entries at any time, any place. When I am on the same wifi network as my Mac, I can then synchronize it.
As much as I like the MacJournal for the iPhone, there are a number of improvements that need to be made. First, remote syncing via MobileMe and/or Webdav would be great. I can do it with Omnifocus today and would love to see it with MacJournal. Also, better tagging capabilities is a must as well as support for rich datatypes like voice, photos and video.
One particularly annoying bug is, when a sync is initiated, you need to determine how the sync will run - i.e. who overwrites whom or sync differences - at the Mac. This requires you to be at your Mac when you sync. Since I can remote-trigger macros using Keyboard Maestro and its iPhone application, I can wake up my Mac, start MacJournal and then initiate a sync from my MacJournal on the iPhone. However, it doesn't run because it depends on an input on the Mac. Please fix soon!
Nevertheless, for a first release of an iPhone app, it has a lot of utility. I just want to see more features, particularly given its $4.99 price.
