Álvaro Ramírez just announced the release of Journelly 1.5. It’s the formal release of the beta version that I recently wrote about. I can’t say enough about this release. As I’ve said before, my Journelly database is over 4 thousand entries long and before this release Journelly was getting laggy and hard to use but this release resolved all those problems. Now Journelly is as snappy as it was when I had only a few entries and everything about it seems faster and easier.
But wait. There’s more. Ramírez has added an “on this day” feature as well as adding features that make searching for entries by date easier.
If you use Journelly as a journal, you may be interested in the new “on this day” feature. There’s a new button that will show you entries happening on the same day from other years. My particular use case for Journelly is as a memo book so I have no use for this feature. Fortunately, the new Journelly makes it easy to toggle it off if you don’t want it.
The other new significant feature is enhanced searching by date. In the search function you can use on: keyword with several different date formats to search for entries with a particular date. There’s also a calendar button that lets you choose the date from a calendar presentation if you prefer.
You may wonder why I have this entry tagged emacs. I consider Journelly intrinsically linked with Emacs because Journelly keeps its database in an Org file and that means that I can use Emacs and Org mode to search and edit that database. That doesn’t seem like much but I find myself doing it all the time. Journelly has become integrated into my Emacs workflow and become an important part of it.
In the mean time, those of you not in the Journelly beta program now have access to these updates. I can’t speak for Ramírez, of course, but if you’d like to be in the beta program, email Ramírez. He’ll probably be glad to add you.