r/digitaljournaling

I use a journaling app (Journey) to help keep many balls up in the air (many ongoing projects), and make notes that I can review later and that will remind me of specific information I need to reference again. Incidentally, I use this journaling app in parallel with a note-taking app (right now, I am using Evernote and piloting Notesnook). My primary reason for using both is my need to be able to infinite-scroll daily entries (I can't do that with my note-taking app).

Unfortunately, the journaling app I use, Journey, does not provide true infinite scrolling. It provides infinite scrolling of daily snippets. I'd like to be able to read my journal as a continuous infinite scroll, including the full daily entries (not just the snippets) in the same manner as one can do it with a handwritten journal.

Do you know a journaling app that can do what I need it to do? These are my requirements specs:

• Multiplatform with Android, Windows, MacOS, iOS
• Solid syncing capabilities (Journey is supposed to sync but I run into constant problems with the Android version)
• Markdown support and file storage
• Infinite scrolling of the full journal entries (not only snippets)
• Does not require significant time in software upkeep
• Reasonable cost for a personal license is quite alright

A bonus would be an app that combines a full range of note-taking with all the above (In this case, infinite scrolling would need to provide the ability to be turned on for a specific folder). I imagine Obsidian might do all that with the right plugins, but I am leery of the software upkeep required. I am past retirement time and I figure that my tech capabilities will decrease with time.

Many thanks for your help!

A friend gifted me a journal a few months ago and repeatedly told me to write things down instead of carrying everything in my head.
The problem is that whenever I’m dealing with uncertainty about career, education, friendships, or life in general, journaling becomes the last thing I feel like doing.
For people who journal regularly:
Did it genuinely help?
What do you write when you don’t have answers?
How do you journal during periods of confusion and uncertainty?
Looking for practical experiences rather than productivity advice.

Hi all. I'm new to journaling and trying to build it into a daily habit, and I keep going back and forth between paper and going digital. I haven't decided which way I should go, so I'd love to hear how people here actually settled it.

For those who went digital, what made you choose it over paper, and do you type or handwrite on a tablet? My main struggle is consistency, so I'm especially curious whether going digital helped you keep showing up, or whether all the apps and features started to feel like a chore and got in the way. I've also seen people mention a hybrid setup where they scan paper pages into something searchable, and I'd love to know if anyone here does that and likes it.

If you don't mind sharing, which app or setup did you actually stick with over time? And the bigger one: why do you journal? I've heard it helps you stay grounded and gives you a place to get thoughts out of your head before they pile up, and I'm curious what it really does for you day to day. Any apps, resources, or prompts that helped you early on would be appreciated.

Apparently I've been living in a hole, I had no idea English-speaking LJ is on its last legs and likely to be shut down soon (per a post five months ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/FanFiction/duplicates/1q3yw8c/psa_englishlanguage_livejournal_is_apparently_not/ ), so I hadn't made any recent backups.

Does anyone know if this is just a random downtime or if it's gone? I haven't tried to log in for the last month or so, so I'm not sure how long it's been down.

Edit: I found a Facebook post from four days ago saying the site is down for good. Darn, I should have been better about making backups.

Edit 2: Just yesterday LJ sent me a "congrats on 16 years!" email to one of my side blogs...

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Hi!

I want to open two blogs. I've been thinking about Instagram but I don't feel the vibe of it.

1. Blog that could be more professional in the future. With own website address ecc. So I thought about blogspot? WordPress? Is there any community in these platforms? It's radę to find another bloggers and just read blogs of regular people ? Not only focused on social media career?

2. Because the second blog that I want to have it would be just my diary after moving in to another country. What you recommend? It would be nice to connect with another people. But it's still Instagram the best for it?

Thanks and have a great day ☀️

I am an avid physical journal enjoyer. However, I also really like the feeling of typing. It’s just fun to do. I had a digital journal that I haven’t touched in a while, and I just didn’t know what to do with it. That’s when I came up with the idea of writing about my work. I’m in healthcare, so writing about my experiences on paper has always felt like a HIPAA violation. I’ve only really named the patients/residents I’ve worked with when I used to work at a nursing home. I wrote memorial entries when they‘ve passed. I just had a thought that it would be really helpful for me to write out my successes and failures professionally and wanted more privacy. So, I’m starting up my digital journal again, which has a password and code to get in. Has anyone else tried this?

Hey everyone,
Lately I’ve been feeling more and more frustrated and disappointed with Apple, and I’m starting to seriously consider switching to a different device.
I’ve been keeping my journal on an iPad for several years now, and handwritten note-taking is absolutely essential for me.
Would you mind sharing your experiences? What devices do you use? Which apps would you recommend for handwritten journaling and note-taking?

you guys i need a help with finding an app to make my life easier since i been stuck with my abusive household for years and i really want to get up from my depression and im not allowed to go out or anything, im extremely lifeless and stuck in my room and all i have is my laptop and so ik i can make my life interesting just with what i have

im trying to do free courses but then i wanted to start journal and habit tracking and i tried using obsidian and i spent like a week trying to set it up and got nowhere and i tried notion too and before that i was trying for Odysseus bc after seeing its features and everything i wanted to try but i gave up since its again a lot of setting up and my laptop is jus core i3

and so i jus wanted like a free ai or sumn to help me better my life since i wanted to journal and i wanted like reminders and everyday i wanted to check off the things i did, so i needed like routine check or wtv but idk what to find anymore im really lost

if any of yk what im looking for, jus suggest me sumn