News & Updates

New Features Significant enhancement to Dropbox sync - we now run fully bi-directional Dropbox Sync in the background to minimize the impact to your writing. Streamlined and improved the Day One Classic sync process to capture a few fringe scenarios in our effort to continue to make the sync process bulletproof. Implemented a better exception logging functionality that will provide detailed information to us regarding any errors you get. This will help us tremendously in more quickly identifying and resolving any issues. Please view the contact us page to see how you can submit a support request if you get any errors. We now...

New Features Added functionality to import data from DO Journal (in addition to the ability to import data from Day One v2). If you have DO Journal installed, the application will automatically identify your DO Journal data folder. Just run the import and all your data will be brought into Life Journal (fully encrypted). For customers that purchased the app from the Shopify store, we now provide you the option to get additional styles for Life Journal. (We cannot yet make this available to customers that purchased the app from the Windows App Store). This option can also be accessed...

We are pleased to announce the release of our Themes / Styles Pack for Life Journal. As our users know, Life Journal already comes with 8 beautiful themes/styles packaged in the application. We are now making available the Life Journal Theme/Style Pack - which is a collection of 15 (fifteen) additional themes/styles that can be installed and used seamlessly within Life Journal. The themes come in light, dark and everything-in-between styles and allow you to further customize your Life Journal user interface to your liking. The following Themes/Styles are included in this package (a few screenshots are shown here): Amarkits Carbon Cyan Dusk...

Besides the very real, feel good nature of writing in your journal, there are a lot of benefits of maintaining a journal and, in particular, establishing a regular gratitude journal writing habit. As a reminder, some of these benefits are listed below: The expression of gratitude – recognizing it, documenting it and communicating it – is known to help lead a happier, healthier and “richer” life. A great resource to read on this is: The 31 benefits of Gratitude (Happier Human). If you are more scientifically inclined, you can also explore the science behind it at The Science of Gratitude (Happier...

A lot has already been written about the health benefits of maintaining a journal / diary. I am providing some links below for further reading - I hope you find them useful: The 31 Benefits of Gratitude You Didn’t Know About: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life The Science of Gratitude: More Benefits Than Expected; 26 Studies and Counting In Praise of Gratitude - Harvard Health The Health Benefits of Journaling | Psych Central Journaling for Mental Health - Health Encyclopedia - University of Rochester Medical Center A new reason for keeping a diary http://www.apa.org/monitor/jun02... The Good and the Bad...