News & Updates — Life Journal

New Features Improved Timeline View: While working on the mobile version of the application, I discovered a mechanism via which the timeline view can be more dynamic in its presentation. I have integrated that capability in the Life Journal desktop app. Now, the Title, Short Description and Tag list all align to the left edge of the Timeline if there is no image and correctly next to the image if there is one. Enhancements / Other Improvements Minor improvements to the performance of loading entries. Autosave of entries now triggers every 30 seconds (instead of every 10). Entries also get auto...

New Features Set Entry's Location: You can now open any entry and not only view the location on a map, but also set it's location. You will be able to search for an address/location.  Hitting the search button will get the resolved location name as well as latitude and longitude co-ordinates from Google Maps. Note that the resolved location name may be different from the location you entered. Clicking on the check mark button will apply the new location to your entry. Enhancements / Other Improvements Enhanced performance of the loading screen. Bug Fixes Fixed a minor bug where the status...

New Features Text To Speech (Read Aloud): You can now have any entry read out loud using the computer's Text To Speech capability (Microsoft Speech API). The Play button appears next to the Distraction Free Writing Interface button. Text To Speech can be paused, resumed or stopped. Learn More... Auto Update Life Journal: Based on feedback, we have incorporated an auto-update capability in Life Journal. Whenever a new update is available, Life Journal will download it and prompt you to install it. It is important that you install this release to get future updates to Life Journal automatically. Learn More... New Templates: In this release, we are...

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,...