MacJournal 3.0 Beta 2 Miscellany
December 27th, 2004
Dan Schimpf’s MacJournal is my text repository of choice. Congratulations to Dan on his deal with Mariner Software! I hope the additional marketing muscle will raise MacJournal’s profile and reward Dan’s great work (with cold hard cash).
There isn’t a lot I would change about MacJournal, but…
- The ability to display an entry’s keywords beneath it in the Journals drawer would be a nice View menu -> Show in Drawer settings option.
- If possible, the keyword editing sheet’s OK button should become a normal button when a keyword is being edited since pressing Return commits the keyword rather than activating the default button.
- Command-Return could create a new keyword while the keyword editing sheet is focused.
- The New Journal Dock menu command should have ellipses.
- Color labeling of entry document icons would be of use.
- Format menu -> Clean up -> Remove Styling rather than Remove Styles.
Hmm–Dan is one of my Poker buddies, but I didn’t realize he had sold MacJournal! Guess I should go to Poker Night more often :-).
The information on his site leads me to believe he will retain control of the code, but Mariner will take care of marketing/promotion and payment processing.
Poker with buddies: good. Online poker spam comments on your weblog: not good.
Having the keywords underneath would be cool. Very del.ici.ous and google base friendly!
For me the neatest thing about MacJournal is the full screen view: try it next time you have a mental block: nothing like a clear screen to clear the mind for action :-)