Saturday, June 05, 2004

What is new in MacJournal 2.6?

I spent some time today trying to come up with a good short list of changes in MacJournal 2.6. If you feel I've left something off, let me know; it's probably just an oversight. I might trim it down for the final release.

  • Enhanced Exporting:
    • export any set of entries or journals
    • export journals with one file per entry
    • export entry to Word documents (Panther only)
    • HTML exporting now supports more styles and colors
    • checkboxes can be exported to any format
  • Improved Importing too:
    • Import or drag folders of files in
  • New Service to append selected text in any application to any entry in MacJournal
  • LiveJournal enhancements:
    • iTunes button to get the currently playing song in iTunes
    • Change who can view the entry as you upload it
  • Performance and stability enhancements, especially for large data sets
  • Interface improvements
    • Greatly enhanced contextual menus for both drawers
    • Mail-style Add and Action buttons
    • Use Combined view in the Journals drawer (previously only seen in the Entries drawer)
    • Lots of small improvements to enhance user experience
  • More workflow options
    • Preferences to automatically close journals that you aren't working in
    • Use Command-1 through -9 to jump to that entry in the current journal (like Safari does)
    • Hold down the Option key to bypass most warnings on a case-by-case basis
    • Copy a style in some text and then select some entries in a drawer and use Paste Font to paste that style onto the selected entries
    • Drag some text onto an entry and wait: that entry will become current so you can drag it into its text (a.k.a. spring-loaded entries)
  • Improved Keywords sheet
  • Improved Undo functionality
  • Improved options for setting the default text and topic for entries (including font and color)
  • You can set a background picture (as well as randomizing through a whole folder)
  • Improved Taco.