Comments on: PIM Review: Journler

By: mike

mike — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 18:46:32 +0000

Just used jorunler before i found thoughts for mac os x. Really likes like a promising alternatvie to the stalled development of journler. This makes it hopefully easier. thoughtsapp.com. i relly hope the devs are working hard to get it released soon

By: samrhall

samrhall — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:03:58 +0000

@ct5821 I’ve never used the export feature much, but I do know that it is not an easy prospect to export your journals with resources attached.

There is an AppleScript that should accomplish this, but I’ve never tried it.

Here is a forum post about exporting:

http://journler.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3788&highlight=exporting+together

And here is the script you need:

http://scriptbuilders.net/files/exportentrywresources1.0.html

For my part, I’ve always manually moved over entries to the PIM I now use. In doing so, I moved only needed information and keep older projects in Journler. Not ideal, but worked.

By: ct5821

ct5821 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:12:45 +0000

Do you have any concerns about exporting from Journler?

It's the one concern I have with Journler; that should Journler cease, or something better comes along, it will be difficult to get the information out (including all the meta-data and preserving links to files) and into another program without significant work on my part.

By: samrhall

samrhall — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:10:34 +0000

@robrecord: Very true. I forgot to include that. I’ve never had too much trouble with the way Journler stores its information, but it is not as open as Together or Evernote.

By: robrecord

robrecord — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:57:44 +0000

One other negative is that Journler does not seem to keep images in their native format. They are kept in TIFF files and journler objects. This means if I want to re-use a JPEG I must convert it back to JPEG format and some image quality will be lost.