Good news for Journelly users. Álvaro Ramírez has just released version 1.3 of Journelly. If you’ve been around Irreal for anytime at all, you know that I am a huge fan of Journelly. It’s one of my most used iOS apps. For those who don’t know, Ramírez advertises Journelly as a sort private Twitter app, meaning that your entries aren’t broadcast and are private to you. I use it as a memo book to record my daily activities so it gets a rigorous workout in the Irreal bunker.
The big news in version 1.3 is Markdown support. I’ve always thought of Journelly as an Emacs adjunct because of its tight integration with Org mode. In an effort to expand its usability, Ramírez has added the option to save its data in Markdown instead of Org mode. That’s important because you can opt to have the data saved in the cloud rather than on the device. That means you can access, read, and edit it from your computer. That’s a real win because it means you have access to your data on all your devices, iOS for not. If you’re not an Emacs user, now you can deal with that data in your preferred markup language.
For Org mode users, Ramírez has added support for rendering both code and quote blocks. If you use Journelly to capture code this is a very nice feature. There’s also expanded language support. Take a look at Ramírez’s announcement for all the improvements and their details.
If you have an iPhone and use it for anything more than making phone calls, you really should look into Journelly. It is, as I’ve said before, a shape shifter that easily adjusts itself for whatever logging-like activity you want to use it for. Highly recommended.