MakeUseOf: 5 Audio-Journaling Apps to Beat Anxiety. “Many people keep journals for their mental health benefits. Journaling about your feelings can reduce mental distress and is a highly encouraged practice for people dealing with anxiety. Audio-journaling, one of the recently introduced forms of journaling, has proven to be effective at this. Let’s take a look at the best audio-journaling apps.”
Make Tech Easier: 7 Useful Apps For Keeping Online Video Diaries. “Journaling and keeping diaries as well as blogging are more popular than ever as people share their lives with others. If you want to keep a video diary instead of just a written one, check out these useful apps and websites you may wish to explore.”
FamilySearch: 6 Online Journals to Make Journaling Easier. “Keeping a personal, handwritten journal may be difficult in this busy time of your life. Why not give online journaling a try? There are dozens of apps, websites, and social media platforms that offer online journaling options. Let’s take a look at what online journaling is and a few terrific options to get started.”
Lifehacker: Use This Free App to Create a Shareable Travel Journal With Minimal Effort. “The app is called Hoptale, and it utilizes photo metadata to pull information about a destination, and uses it to put together a travel journal. In addition to photos and facts, you can document other aspects of your trip, including maps of the places you visited, and your itinerary—which, the company says, can be done in as few as 10 minutes.”
CNET: How to start bullet journaling for an organized 2021. “Although it seems the productivity craze of the 2010s has calmed down (thank goodness, because we all need to stop glamorizing hustle culture), some ‘life hacks’ really can help. Bullet journaling, for example, can turn even the most frenzied person into a productivity deity. This planning method involves organizing notes, events, tasks and plans into neat collections and logs — and it might be exactly what you need in 2021 after a turbulent year that squashed everyone’s plans and goals.”
MakeUseOf: 5 Journal Apps and Printables to Build a Habit of Daily Journaling. “Maintaining a daily journal is one of the best habits for mental well-being and reflection. But it’s a hard habit to build, so these apps and websites are tweaking the experience to make it easier to write a journal every day.”
MakeUseOf: 6 Digital Journal Apps to Boost Mental Health With a Daily Diary . “Each app takes a different approach to digital journaling, so pick the one that suits your style. Some focus on privacy, others target beginners and time-constrained users. And there’s even an app that turns the concept of a diary on its head by making your journal entries public.”
TechCrunch: Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided journaling. “Since Jour, a new app for private and portable journaling, dropped on the App Store two months ago, it’s racked up 80,000 users. No paid marketing or public announcements. Just organic interest in discovering a better way of journaling than pen to paper.”
Bloomberg: The Regular Person’s Guide to Bullet Journaling. In this case, a podcast with an accompanying extensive article. “This week on the new Bloomberg podcast, Works for Me, I—a regular person with bad handwriting, haphazard to-do lists, and zero artistic ability—talk about how I spent more than two months trying it out. On the show, I tackle every step of the Bullet Journal process, from making my first spread to learning about the wonderful world of habit trackers. You’ll hear about my surprisingly emotional ups and downs, including my disproportionate reaction to an olive oil spill.”
MakeUseOf: The 5 Best Bullet Journal Apps to Make Bullet Journaling Effortless. “You can turn any note-taking app into a Bullet Journal. But you have a lot less work to do if you start out with an app that comes with all the right ingredients for keeping a Bullet Journal. But where do you find such an app? Start with our list of five.”
Make Tech Easier: 4 Useful Apps For Keeping Online Video Diaries. “Journaling and keeping diaries as well as blogging are more popular than ever as people share their lives with others. If you want to keep a video diary instead of just a written one, here are some apps and websites you may wish to explore.”
Popular Science: Think you’re too busy to journal? These apps let you do it on the go.. “Keeping a daily journal lets you practice writing, organize your thoughts, and preserve your habits and events for posterity. But who has the time and energy to sit down for a dedicated recording session every day? Instead, jot down your entries on the go—by keeping the tome on your phone. These five apps will let you journal at any time or place.”
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