Better Diary Alternatives

RedNotebook

RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries.

Features:

• Calendar view
• Auto-saving
• Journal
• Notetaking
• Outliner

Day One

Day One is a simple way to journal application for the Mac, iPhone and iPad. It’s easy to quickly enter your thoughts and memories and have them synced and backed up in the cloud. Day One is well designed and extremely focused to encourage you to write more often through a Menu Bar quick entry, a Reminder system and inspirational messages. Day One 2.0 introduces Day One Sync, a fast, free, and secure service for syncing your data between all your devices.

Features:

• Android Sync
• Sync with Dropbox
• Support for gestures
• Sync with iCloud
• IFTTT integration
• Journal
• Export to PDF

Journey

Embark on the journey of self-improvement towards better qualities of love, life and health. Record your daily events, secret, gratitude, and relive those moments in Journey. Trusted by millions of users, Journey is your perfect journaling companion that keeps your private memories for a lifetime. # Future-proof digital journal Designed to keep journal last forever, Journey gives you full control of your private diary by storing them in Google Drive sync.

Features:

• Different areas grid
• Sync with Google Drive
• Journal
• Notetaking
• Protected by Password
• Export to PDF

MemPad

MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages. Unicode. The program offers standard editing functions including cut, copy, paste, undo, date/time insert, drag&drop, and supports Web links as well as network and local file or folder links (full path not required) and internal page links. Environment variables can be used in file links to run programs, for example.

Features:

• Lightweight
• Portable
• Notetaking
• Outliner

Penzu

Write in Private. Penzu is your own personal journal and online diary. Don't want to share everything with the world? Easily keep your personal thoughts, memories, and ideas safe and secure in the cloud! And if you want to, you can share your individual entries via email or create a public link and share with the world.

Daylio

Pick your mood and add activities you have been doing during the day. You can also add notes and keep an old school diary. Entry takes just seconds but helps you ginormously. You will discover hidden patterns and maybe use Daylio to create some useful habits like running, eating more healthy or waking up earlier. Daylio is collecting recorded moods and activities in the statistics and calendar. This format will help you to understand your habits better.

Features:

• Sync with Google Drive
• Automatic Backup
• Customizable
• Export to CSV
• History graphs
• Sync with iCloud
• Journal
• Mood tracking
• Export to PDF

Journee

A simplified, RedNotebook-type journal/diary app. With a focus on minimal design and a distraction free writing environment. Makes a folder full of dated text files that are easy to access even without the journal program. Other diary software keeps your diary in some unique format which makes difficult to read or access when the software is gone. People are stuck with their particular journal system, or have to struggle with tricky imports/exports.

Features:

• Electron based
• Journal
• MarkDown support
• Minimalistic
• Notetaking

Journaley

A simple and elegant open-source journal keeping software for Windows compatible with Day One.

Features:

• Sync with Dropbox
• Journal
• Notetaking
• Writing tool

Capture 365 Journal

Capture 365 Journal is a beautiful and easy to use diary/journal for the Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac. With Capture 365 Journal, you have access to your journal all the time allowing you capture your thoughts and special moments throughout the day. Features multiple video and image attachments, weather and location tagging with iCloud, Dropbox and 365 Direct Sync. Also imports from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Instagram.

Features:

• Sync with Dropbox
• Encrypted sync
• Sync with iCloud
• Journal
• Logging
• No Subscription
• Notetaking

Triumph - Journaling, Reimagined

Journal just by talking. Transcribed journaling designed for busy people on the move.