I’ve written a couple of times about Álvaro Ramírez’s Journelly [1, 2] and how it seemed like a good fit for my memo book needs. In the last of those posts, Ramírez announced that he was starting an official beta program. I wrote that I might sign up but as usual inertia prevailed and I didn’t get around to it.
In his latest post on Journelly, Ramírez notes that Mac Observer has a review of Journelly. I hopped over there to take a look and was impressed. It’s a nice review and makes Journelly seem like an even better fit for my needs than I had previously thought. If you’re the slightest bit interested in Journelly or think you might be, you should definitely take a look at the Mac Observer review.
Ramírez’s posts on Journelly tend to emphasize it’s use as a sort of private Twitter/X but the Mac Observer review makes clear that it can also be used as a kind of journaling app as well. One of the best parts, from my point of view, is that the data is saved in Org mode format so I should be able to integrate it into my Emacs workflow easily.
In any event, I was finally able to bestir myself to email Ramírez and ask for a beta invite. He responded right away with my invite and I installed it without a problem. I’ve never participated in an iOS beta before and wasn’t sure how to get the beta app installed. It turns out to be easy. Apple has a special app called TestFlight that automates everything. You simply install TestFlight, click on the invite, and everything else happens automatically.
I just finished the install and haven’t had time to play with Journelly yet but I’ll let you know what I think as soon as I get a bit of experience with it.