Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
Welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel if you're brand new, but if you're a regular, welcome back
So today's video is going to be a little bit of a review on the journaling application called journey
Now you guys know that I try in some extent to talk about productivity applications
But I do like to delve into once that sort of catch my attention
especially in the sort of a guess being productive sort of experience I guess is
Making sure that you keep an eye on health and important things. So this this is an application
It's actually interested me. But something I want to talk about now. I eventually got it on iOS
I'm not an active user. I just have an interest in sort of diving into the Mac version
This is the set up version which is part of this description, but you can get it available on the Mac App Store
So it is also available on Chrome Web Store as I might say and also
They have a host of other application. That's something I'll to speak about at the end. So here we are with the application
I'm gonna dive in sort of show you around
This is the first time I've opened it on Mac, so it might be a good experience for you. So
They sort of start you up with the experience letting you know that you can sync and backup by Google Drive
I'm essentially journey is a diary or a journal
For your application you can use it on web too and it allows you to basically capture the most important
Journaling things of your day now, whether that's you know, your thoughts and opinions or your emotions
All of those things are at being able to capture inside of the application as well as location weather and your motion activity
now it supports markdown and allows you to publish in HTML or
Save as a PDF, which is great and you can also add images as well as Atlas for you and things like that. So
The actual journey application provides you with Google logins so you can go through that
I'm not sure whether there was a option to actually sign in using a fresh account
But maybe that will be available through the web version. So this is the journey application as you can see
it's really dead simple the concept behind it is and journal entries and you have this sort of like
Experience that you allow to see everything at a glance so you can see here that obviously on this left-hand panel you have everything
Your actual journey view which actually sees all it sees actually has all of your journal entries
You can see your photos
you can see the date that you did it by and
you can even go back in the past as well as an atlas of all of the activities that you
Did and where they were so that is very helpful
Now this is all stood through the cloud
So it will sync between the devices and you can manually sync to which makes it a lot easier now
You can lock the application which will allow you to get a bit more security on it
And of course, you can view the settings as well here. Now, the settings are dead simple
You can actually change the font because I guess that's a portent part of the journaling experience
You change the font size the units the actual night mode, which actually changes it into a different
Background, which is great Auto adding location sound effects
Which I'm actually gonna switch off because I'm sort of hear them tapping and not sure whether you can as well as a spell trap
Function now, you've got sync and since with your Google Drive account
So that will store quite nicely in there and also you can and able sort of password to the account make it a little bit
stronger
You can import other journey accounts as debt well as day one entries and evil remove the account from your computer
But apart from that they're these simple functions of settings. So I'm gonna add a nice journal entry sort of demonstrate what it looks like
So all you do is you hit that plus button and to start obviously
Adding the entry and it looks really simply like this. So it's almost like a window or on Evernote
For example, you have the ability to add location, which I won't do in this case
This also allows you to add the weather data as well as the weather what you're actually doing like were you flying?
Right because you could be entering while you're on a long trip. I'm actually stick turning right now
So I'm going to put that one there and you can also add tags as well
Which is quite a nice function so I might say
recording or YouTube
And I'd
Say, of course, you can have that. There we go. It's already ticked
Which makes it really easy to access as well as even changing the date and time which makes it a lot easier
Now once you you're happy and you're ready to go you can start adding more details. So I'm going to do that right now
Okay, so here we are and I read a little bit of an entry journal entry and I can I added all the right information
I even added the
Location as well so you can pick a place
And in this case, I need to just choose this place
So great I also added some photos on the right-hand side of the food and stuff and I'm pretty much ready to go
So once you tick everything off, it's it was pretty good
what happens is it will pop up in your
Journal feed with the photos on top which makes it look really nice as well as obviously your entry there
Now the cool thing is it went the location the exact weather that's happening right now. Of course, I could go back and
Obviously modify that but it's actually a nice addition
Now the only thing that I think they could have added. Maybe I'm doing it completely
Wrong is the ability to add a title to this one
Let's say I wanted to say little event or a whale something like that. That is possible
now once you add a photo you can of course go to the photos view and actually see them which is quite nice or even
Go to the select date view
so for example
I'm going to go to Sunday and actually see that there so it can actually jump to the specific date and
Down here. I can actually see a map view of the location which is really really cool
So it's something really nice addition, especially once you've got a bunch added there
So the concept of this application is really really simple. Um, it doesn't really do hideous amounts
I would say in terms of doing you know more than that, but that is the set up version of it
so
Of course
Naturally there is going to be more on the other experiences because this is sort of like a a rolled up version of it
But as you can imagine this application is pretty good
So just to give you a bit of an outline on the experience the application is available on Windows
Mac
Android iOS
Chrome as well as journey cloud as well
now the application is meant to be very secure in terms of being able to keep I obviously love that good stuff safe and
of course the application is
free which is great
which makes it a lot easier the application is developed by a company called - app studio and
The applications on iOS and Android work really really well
Now there is a journey premium upgrade which is available as an in-app purchase. It is priced at
$29.99 and will allow you to access the journey dot cloud membership
Now this allows you to have daily reminders as well as inspirations to your email inbox write and attach photos from email
unlocking premium on any of the other devices as well as a couple of other services like
Markdown removing PDF watermarks docx export night mode and a couple of other functions with backup
But apart from that that's the really sort of outlandish hooks into experiences
I think that would be more specific for if you're maybe writing this up as a diary or doing something a bit more
Exporting with it maybe turning into a book or something like that. Anyway guys, hopefully this was a nice review of journey
Let me know in the comments what you thought let me know what journal application you're using on a daily basis
Hope this wasn't too far out of my remit, but I really am starting to look at doing a few more of these
Anyway guys, thank you very much for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed this video make it a great week
Keep it up. T'v and I'll see you guys a very very soon Cheers