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With iOS 18 comes an update to Apple's healthiest app for your mind, Journal. Unlike other similar apps, Journal is preinstalled and updated alongside the OS, so it's easy to miss new features as they're added. This year, searching old entries is even easier with Calendar, giving you a top-down view of your streaks (which can also be tracked). Along with text formatting and Quick Actions, Journal now supports both Widgets and Shortcuts.

With these convenient new options, users can easily make written or voice entries right from their Home Screen. Join Darcy as your guide through these mindful changes to Journal.

Journal is part of iOS 18 and newer.

With the release of iOS 17.2, Apple joins the journaling space with their own app, Journal. It does a lot of things well, including making it easy to reflect on significant events that have happened recently, and the ability to add entries in a variety of ways. It also offers a Journaling Suggestions API, that other apps can use to enhance their own journaling experiences.In this video, Mike walks through the basic types of info and media that you can use for journal entries, and explains how to send things to the Journal app using the Share Sheet. He also shows you how the Journaling Suggestions API works in the popular app Day One.

Day One is a journaling application for Mac & iOS that is well designed and a complete joy to use. It makes journaling nearly frictionless, which is important if you want journaling to become a consistent habit. In this episode, we cover the ins and outs of Day One and show you several practical examples of how you can put Day One to work for you.