Chronicle - A Personal Journal / Writing Diary

I like the ease of use, the extras added to the keyboard. I like that you can use whatever font. You can enlarge the words and change their color. I'll write some things down below that I think would improve at least my experience. None of them are needed, but in case you have the freedom, budget, and most importantly, the desire to add/change some things, I thought I'd add my thoughts: One addition could be despite choosing the color for your notebook - provided that you purchase the notebooks add-on - it wouldn't affect the page color as well, but instead the page has its own palette of colors to choose from, and the option of lined pages. I also think it would personally help if the writing platform could stretch to both edges of the screen when I turn my tablet to the side. I get distracted by the column of entries on the side and the buttons in the upper corners. And lastly, it would definitely improve if there were titles to the entries as well as the date; I can write about several enormously different things on the same day, and all of them have the same name. Other than that, I like the app; it's easy to use, has nice options. I like the layout. It's good for me! Thank you for taking the time to produce this app, Ezzi

I have been using Chronicle since the original version and have found it to be a excellent application to manage events and information and provides the ability to do quick searches on all the information you have added to the app when you need it. Additionally, the backup options are tremendous so that you can export your backups to both a PDF or text file to save your work, or you can use the backups to print on another device/computer. The developer has also created an additional capability (for a very reasonable fee) to create multiple journals on the same device so that each journal can be separately maintained. This is one app that I use every day to keep notes related to my work (& events away from work). To the extent that I want to include my notes in another app like a word processor or calendar, etc., I can simply copy the text from Chronicle and paste it into the other app. The developer has also done a great job of keeping the app updated to the latest Apple iOS version and adding improvements to make give it more features increasing its flexibility (I started using Chronicle on an iPad1 and today, a half dozen iPads later, I am typing this review on my iPad Pro 10.5). I continue to highly recommend Chronicle to everyone needing to keep a journal, diary, memo pad, events of events, or just needing a place to record anything that you think you might need to remember later (& be able to get to it quickly).

This developer has come up with several nice apps, including this one. I had been using the notes feature of Awesome Calender Lite until I found this. The advantage of this app over Awesome Calendar is the word count, but I’m still a little torn because I can’t put a title to my entry, whereas I can in Awesome Calendar. Maybe the multiple notebooks add-on would resolve that issue for me. Haven’t tried it yet, but I’m considering. The other thing that would be nice is the ability to apply font attributes (italics, bold, underline). It’s a little ironic that one of the screenshots is the developer’s personal entry on the writing process where he says to write a first draft in a conversational tone. If I’m writing in a conversational tone, I would like to be able to add emphasis so that it reads as if I were speaking and retains some of the emotion.

I’ve been using this app for quite some time. I’m not sure why, but if you miss a day and want to enter the info and select the entry button, it takes you to the current day and I’ve been told you can make the entry and then once entered , just open the entry and then tap on the date and it will allow you to change the date. But the date is hidden way at the top of the entry and hidden under the top bar and not accessible. When I hold down my finger on the page and try and scroll the page up to access the date and once I let go the page jumps back down to the bottom. So trying to change a date is impossible. This only seems to be when using a iPhone. On the iPad I can change the date fine. I do like this app over all.

Decided to get this app in place of the Notes app that comes with iOS. I'm still undecided but gave it 4 stars because it is pretty nice on you learn how to navigate. I like the features of being able to designated different "folders" and then have the varied dated entries separate. Adding photos and creating separate diaries is also a plus. Two options I would change is adding the ability to "bold" words and italicize words. Also, when you save your data to the cloud it saves the whole file every time by adding a new entry and only changing the date. Files can build up quite fast. I would like it to make a single copy and ask what to do with it. i.e. Save the complete file or just what is new. Forget the date and keep the folder name.