Journalistic: Micro Journaling

3.7
619 reviews
50K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Journalistic is a micro journaling app with a focus on a clean and minimalistic writing experience. It uses the established bullet journal format, making it approachable for beginners and highly efficient for experienced diarists.

The ultimate goal of a micro journal is to help you focus on what truly matters in your life and to provide a place where you can write down and organize all the things that occupy your mind.

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Track activities and interactions

Simply use Twitter syntax to tag #activities and mention @people in your daily entries. Journalistic automatically compiles timelines, statistics, and insights for them and helps you find things easily. Tags and mentions are private, only you can see them.

Dreams

Dreams are a window into our subconscious mind. Journalistic has a dream journal built right in so that you can attach details about last night's adventures to your daily log.

Notes

Create notes to complement your journal entries, e.g. weekly-/monthly-/annual recaps, reflections, "lessons learned", thought experiments, etc. You can also attach notes directly to your entries to elaborate on specific topics or events.

Wisdom

Collect shower thoughts, mind-blowing facts, insightful quotes, and excerpts from good books and use them as a source of wisdom and inspiration.

Ideas

Save all your ideas in a convenient list, elaborate on them, make plans, and work out potential solutions.

Insights

While you write and go about your day, Journalistic crunches data automatically in the background and compiles useful insights for you, like "How many words do I write per day?", "When was my last skiing day?", "When did I first meet Helena?".

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FAQ

What is micro journaling?

A micro journal is essentially a bullet journal with a focus on a minimalistic writing style. The compact format forces you to distill events and thoughts down to the essentials, which gives rise to clarity.

Why should I start a journal?

Keeping a journal is all about awareness, focus, and mental well-being. Writing and recapping daily logs can help you reflect upon your relationships, accomplishments, goals, and life in general.

Can I export my journal?

Yes. You can download your journal entries easily in text-, markdown-, and JSON format.

Is Journalistic available on other platforms?

Yes. Journalistic is a Progressive Web App (PWA), meaning you can use it on Android, iOS/OSX, Windows, Linux, and on the web.

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Documentation

https://docs.journalisticapp.com

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Updates

Since Journalistic is a Progressive Web App (PWA), it is always up-to-date. You will only rarely need to download updates from the PlayStore™.

You can follow all the latest changes here:

https://pwa.journalisticapp.com/updates

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Help & Support

Contact us via email at [email protected].

Bug reports, feature requests, and improvement suggestions are always welcome!
Updated on
16 Nov 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Financial info
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
605 reviews
Alyssa Lindsey
31 October 2024
Update: the app is no longer working. It is a straight to the point app that makes it very easy to journal quickly. I love the minimalist approach, and simple way to organize. It's perfect for someone like me who needs to journal for mental health, but had trouble until very recently establishing the habit. Most importantly, it is free and with no deceptive monthly payments. But I would love if I could change the color of the background to something other than light and dark mode.
22 people found this review helpful
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Micro Journaling Labs
23 April 2024
Thanks for the feedback Alyssa, really glad to hear that 🙏🏽
Nancy Tcheou
2 May 2024
Simple and straightforward. Love all the little categories it already has but doesn't feel overwhelming to use. Can't wait to see further development and I would honestly pay to use this app - perfect for how my journaling brain works. One thing is, I keep having to re-sign in with my Google account, but that is just a minor annoyance.
5 people found this review helpful
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Micro Journaling Labs
9 May 2024
Thanks Nancy, could you try to clear your browser data as described here, that should help: https://docs.journalisticapp.com/troubleshooting.html#clear-the-browser-cache
R. Elijah Brewer
28 November 2023
I'm absolutely loving the app so far! It's cleanly designed, and is a fresh take on journaling that I've needed. Though, I've had some bugs every now and then. Such as when I swipe [the side of my phone] to go back, sometimes it leaves the app instead of going to the previous page. And I would love to see a secret entry option. One that would just display "[Secret Note]", and would need to be opened by pin or fingerprint. Maybe these could also all be found in a "vault" of sorts. Keep it up!
10 people found this review helpful
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Micro Journaling Labs
28 November 2023
Thanks a lot for the feedback Elijah 🙏🏽

What's new

Journalistic updates automatically. Changelog: https://pwa.journalisticapp.com/updates