I’ve recently discovered this and wondered how in the world I have missed it.  Journler has to be the coolest thing ever.  I don’t know if I have ever mentioned it before in this blog, but I am an aspiring author, hoping to get some YA books published one day.  How I have ever functioned working on my novel projects without this application is hard to even understand now, and I’ve only been using it for two days.

On the Journler website, they describe the program as:

Elegant, beautiful, powerful. Journler is a place for your thoughts and everything they touch.

Featuring iLife integration, audio and video entries, extensive document importing and instantaneous searching and filtering, not to mention Mail, iWeb and Address Book integration, a dash of blogging and AppleScript and Spotlight support.

Journler is a daily notebook and entry based information manager. Scholars, teachers, students, professors, scientists, thinkers, the business minded and writers of every persuasion use it on a daily basis to connect the written word with the media most important to them.

Holy cow.  One of the best features of Journler in my opinion is the Smart Folders.  Create, color code, and set up folders that search for tags, content, titles, categories, etc. and any pages you write get automatically saved to the right folder or subfolder.  So for instance, I can have pages instantly sorted to chapter folders, notes folders, character histories, etc.  I will never have to sort through my documents folder again.

For teachers, this could be an extremely handy application.  Sort reflections, lesson plans, pictures, videos.  Create a journal of your school year.  Have it all in one easily organized spread.  Likewise, Journler could make a great family journal/digital photo album/video collection.  It’s kind of like a word processor, a blog, iLife, and a wiki all rolled into one.  This is just the tip of the iceberg, though.  I haven’t finished exploring all the features.