Capture life and seize every moment. A special birthday. A graduation. A child's first word. A gathering taking place far away from home. Life is filled with events. Some are happy, some sad, some are utterly life-changing. Don't let these moments fade пїЅ keep them all alive in MacJournal. We've created and designed MacJournal, the world's most popular journaling application for the Mac, so that you can start writing and express yourself the moment you launch it. Easily create a journal пїЅ for your dreams, your family or a special time of life пїЅ anything. Then, take the plunge and write your entry. It can be your first thoughts of the day, a summary of a good book or just to unload from the week. With MacJournal, the only limitation is the one you set for yourself. Life is more than just words!
There's color, sound and imagery and you can put all of it into your journals with MacJournal. A Media Browser is included which allows you to select a favorite song from iTunes, a photo from your Pictures library пїЅ even a YouTube video пїЅ and add it to an entry. Your journals will be as rich with sight and sound as the event itself.

The other cool stuff.
MacJournal is packed with so many features and enhancements that you can turn it into your own personal writing playground. Select one of the many icons included to mark your entries and journals or use one of your own. Add a mood пїЅ are you happy or just so-so? Sort your journals by Topic, Date, Mood, Content Size and more. If you're the business type, you can use the Statistics menu to view Words, Characters and Lines in an entry. If you like a disciplined approach to your journal keeping, set aside time every day to write and use the Timer to monitor yourself. When you want to see just how prolific a writer you are, select the Timeline Mode to view your daily writing activity chronologically, or the Calendar Mode to see your entries by month and year. There's also a Full Screen Mode to give you a full writing landscape for all your thoughts choosing your own color background and your own color of type. Let your writing canvas be as unique as the words that will go on it.

If you like an audienceпїЅor not.
You can keep your world private or, like so many do, share your thoughts and opinions or your entire life. Your MacJournal entries can be published to any of the popular blogging services like Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Tumblr and more. But, if you want to keep your thoughts away from prying eyes пїЅ don't worry, MacJournal is equipped with two-level security пїЅ password protection and AES-256 encryption. Extroverted or introverted. Open or private. Just pick the way that's right for you.

It's just plain fun.
With all the features in MacJournal, you will find that starting and keeping a journal for yourself personally, for school or business, can be as fun and entertaining as it is serious.

Homepage: http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/

Version 6.0.2:

Added a way to reveal the preferences file in the Finder.
Selecting a new custom location for backups will create a MacJournal Backups folder inside that folder for safety reasons. If you had selected your home folder, older folders might be pruned along with older backups.
Fixed an issue encrypting a journal with an entry duplicated from another entry in that journal but neither entry has changed after that.
Fixed a crash when syncing with an iOS device.
Improved memory usage after selecting multiple entries.
Enabled the cancel button in the Activity window for backups.
Improved entry detection when importing several entries in a single file if the dates separating them do not have times.
Fixed improper jumps in scrolling when scrolling through a book between entries.
Improved compatibility of popovers on 10.6 to work more like the real ones on 10.7.
Fixed "Send to MobileMe" behavior.
Added "None" as a formatting option for text sent to blogs. No conversion to HTML will be performed.
Restored some compatibility information for AppleScripts written looking for the "journals" property on the application.
Added the ability to unlock journals in the Backup Browser.
Restoring a journal in the Backup Browser will restore all of its entries as well.
Fixed the month display in the calendar view mode when switching from single month to multi-month and back again.
When in the multi-month mode in the calendar view mode, clicking on a shaded date will select an entry in that date.
Improved locale-specific behaviors for lowercase/uppercase/capitalize Text Clean Up actions.
Added an indication of where a particular blog originates in the "Send to Other Blog" menu.
Fixed a problem using auto-start on the Timer window when exiting Full Screen mode.
Duplicating an entry will append "(Copy)" to the name and select the copy at the end, similar to Finder.
Added a "Request a Feature" item to the Help menu.
Added a warning when entering the code for syncing with a touch device if MacJournal cannot save that code for the future.
Fixed an issue decrypting journals from version 5 where some entries have attachments with specific kinds of filenames.
When no find result is selected in the Find and Replace, "Replace" will do nothing instead of behaving like "Replace All".
Improved performance of smart journals by moving some of the metadata searching into the background.
Fixed an issue where exported CSV files couldn't be re-imported without shifting the date over a few hours and messing up Unicode characters.
Added the ability to specify the metadata included in Automatic format exports. This is only used for textual entries.
Improved handling of entries without any content for Automatic export format to output an empty file with the requested metadata.
Fixed some problems with trying to export an entry to a location that already has a file by that name.
Added hidden pref IndexEncryptedJournalContentWhileUnlocked to disable indexing of content in encrypted journals after unlocking it.
Fixed the "No Color" action in the Text Color toolbar item when some text already has a color.
Fixed entry content searching after doing a sync with an iOS device.
Fixed the crash checking functionality.
Fixed "Allow Comments" for Movable Type and WordPress blogs if the button had never been pressed before.
Fixed an issue where the Quick Note window required a click before you could type in it if it was shown while in another application.