News & Updates

Starting v1.5.0.0 of Life Journal, the application has the capability to automatically detect if a new update is available, download the update and run the update installer. How this works: When you start Life Journal, the application will check if there is a new update available. If a new update is available, it will prompt you to download and install the update. If you choose to not install the update, you will be prompted again the next time you start the application. If you choose to download the update, the update will be downloaded and the update installer will be executed...

We are pleased to introduce Text To Speech (Read-Aloud) capability in v1.5.0.0 of Life Journal! The Play button appears right above the entry editor (to the left of the Distraction Free Editor button). Playing an entry: Clicking on the Play button will initiate a read out of your current entry. Pausing a playing entry: To pause the read out, simply click the button again (which will be showing a pause icon). Resuming a paused entry: Once paused, you can resume read-out again by clicking the same button (which will now be showing a resume icon) Stopping Read-Aloud: At any time,...

New Features The performance of the application has been significantly enhanced. Everything will be a bit faster now. The initial load of your entries should be almost twice as fast as before. If you want to make it faster than that, we have introduced a switch on the Settings->Miscellaneous options to hide the progress bar while loading. With all of the optimizations and the switch turned on, it takes less than 2 seconds to load over 650 entries! Weather now contains information about Ozone, "Feels Like" Temperature, Precipitation Type (Rain, Snow, Sleet) and Precipitation Probability. You can view all these...

New Features Implemented a button in the About screen to rate and review the app. If you are enjoying using the app, we would very much appreciate it if you took a moment to rate and review the application - it really helps others discover Life Journal (and encourages us too!). Enhancements / Other Improvements The Import functionality for DO Journal data has been enhanced to check if the entries being imported are encrypted. Remember: If importing data from DO Journal, always decrypt the data in DO Journal first before running the import in Life Journal. Implemented code to always...

New Features We are pleased to announce the introduction of Writing Prompts! Sometimes, you just get stuck about what to write about. For those times, you can use the new writing prompts functionality of Life Journal. The writing templates button now provides a drop down. The first button in the dropdown still works the same as the templates manager - and will allow you to insert a writing template (or create/edit your own template). The second button will insert a random writing prompt into your entry text. If you don't like the prompt that is inserted, just click the button...