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“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.” — Walter Scott

Make a commitment to write journal regularly.

Set up a schedule that suits you and follow it. Don’t skip writing sessions if you don’t know what to write about — just start with a rough paragraph and keep developing it (see “Write” section below).

Choose tools that are convenient and inspiring.

For instance, Mémoires, our journaling software, is a simple and effective tool that keeps you focused on your journal’s content, not the application itself.

You’d want to keep your journal on your computer, and here’s why:

• it’s searchable (easy to find everything your wrote about);
• secure (no need to hide anything, just remember your password);
• editing and rewriting is easy.

However, you may need a small paper notebook when you’re away from your computer — try tiny Moleskines or Field Notes. Just remember to type entries back into your journaling software.

Continue reading: How to write a journal →

Update: The new version 1.2.43 has been released to address a bug that prevented 1.2.42 from working on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Please download it. Sorry!

We are happy to announce the availability of the new version of Mémoires.

Release notes:

• Default font selection in Preferences.
• Better look in Leopard:
  - The bottom of the main window looks like iCal’s.
  - Left panel becomes gray when the main window is inactive.
  - Improved journal icon (now full-size 512x512).
  
• Faster startup.
• Importing from the latest versions of MacJournal and Journler.
• Fixed searching for license in selected message in Mail on Leopard.
• Fixed warning messages in Console for updater.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Corrected mistakes in the English help file.
• Updated localizations.

You can get it from http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/

Thanks to everyone for reporting bugs and suggesting features! Also thanks to translators for a quick response.

This is a quick fix for embossing of days in calendar, as Mac OS X 10.5.2 update changed how shadows behaved in Cocoa.

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MacSanta is here.

Mémoires 1.1.39 codename “Fix’em all” released today.

Release notes

• Fixed critical issue: if writing to disk fails when saving a decrypted journal, Mémoires removed the journal.
• Fixed crash when opening the registration window.

Download here

We are happy to announce the availability of Mémoires 1.1 final release. The most requested feature was encryption of journals, so we implemented it.

Release notes

1.1.35

• Encryption for journals (AES-128).
• Importer now reports the number of imported journals and entries.
• Updated Sparkle (updater) framework.
• Updated crash reporter UI.
• Fixed crash.

1.1.36

• Fixed double encryption of journals.
• Fixed not updating highlighted dates (since 1.1.35).

1.1.37

• Fixed not removing temporary files in some cases (since 1.1.35).
• Changed directory for temporary files.
• Fixed loading journal issue when saving encrypted journals for the first time.

1.1.38

• Updated localizations.
• Autofilling of registration values if purchase confirmation email is selected in Mail.

Download Mémoires 1.1.38

Keep journaling!

We love fixing bugs!

Release notes

• Fixed not removing temporary files in some cases (since 1.1.35).
• Changed directory for temporary files.
• Fixed loading journal issue when saving encrypted journals for the first time.

Updated: Please download the final release.

IMPORTANT: This is a beta release intended for testing purposes only. Do not try it with your real journals, or at least, make backup copies of your journals! Seriously!

This beta release fixes a critical bug in the previous beta.

Release notes

• Fixed double encryption of journals.
• Fixed not updating highlighted dates (since 1.1.35).

Update: Please download the latest beta version.

As usual:

IMPORTANT: This is a beta release intended for testing purposes only. Do not try it with your real journals, or at least, make backup copies of your journals! Seriously!