
Just like Day One, it captures the weather and location of entries-which can be saved on Google Drive and also shared via social media. Described as similar to Day One by Lifestream Blog’s Mark Krynsky, Journey is available for Android with a Google Chrome extension for work on a computer.

Entries have tagging capability to ensure their organization-and, according to the Sweet Setup review, “it geotags your entries with your current location and makes a note of the current weather, you can tag your current activity status and you can export all of your entries as plain text or PDF.” Day One is available for iOS only and sells in the App Store for $4.99-$19.99. It utilizes text-but brings in additional content, particularly photos.

It is available across devices-and the versions downloaded to your computer, iPhone and iPad all sync to each other. These six apps facilitate the act of journaling with a few creative twists.ĭay One. While not free, Day One is touted by The Sweet Setup as the “far and away best pick” of journaling apps. Pen and paper journals can also serve that purpose, but millennials, known for their hesitancy to pick up anything analog, will opt for the digital alternative-and here are 10 best apps and podcasts for digital journaling to help you get started. While digital journaling can assist with immediate business-related needs-such as promotional social media content management-it is a useful tool for us to get our career goals in order and to reap the benefits that Hyatt describes.

We naturally document our lives via social media-but journaling allows for greater detail. While a writer himself, Hyatt states that it was difficult for him to find time to keep a journal-but once he stuck with it on a consistent basis-he was afforded the benefits of “processing previous successes, clarifying thinking, understanding context, noticing feelings, connecting heart, recording significant lessons and asking important questions.” Millennials can benefit from journaling in their professional as well as their personal lives. Career mentor and blogger Michael Hyatt cites journaling as beneficial to his professional success.
