Journal Three Biscuit Guide

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Waddya mean, there's a bit plus sign in Journal, you tap that and start writing? There's more to Journal than you think -- and also less than you expect. Here's how to do everything, including writing Journal entries on a Mac or iPad.
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@johnwade7430 9 месяцев назад

I bought a Wireless keyboard for my wife for Christmas. To try it out I set it up with my iPhone and used the Journal App. A bit strange as the screen was a bit small but it was fine. I like Journal - it’s pretty cool.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

I really, really should have thought of that. Thanks.

@GaelyneGasson 9 месяцев назад

I think I'll stick with my current method, but if I need inspiration or to be reminded of something I did during the day, I'll poke my head into the Journal app and see what it suggests. Then continue on my merry way.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

May your way be very merry indeed.

@oliverborromeo8460 9 месяцев назад

Thank you for this! I definitely wanted to use the Mac for the Journal App

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Thanks. Would you let me know how you get on? I find the more I use it, the more I like using it, but if I fall off the wagon it can be a week or more before I get back to it.

@eightwheels 9 месяцев назад

Thank you - best intro to Journal I've seen. I really like Journal and have been using it for the last month or so. But I hate doing all that text entry on the iPhone - I'd MUCH rather do it on my Mac, as you do. My favorite app for text entry is Drafts, which I have on all my devices - iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. I've been typing my entries into Drafts on my Mac, and when I'm done editing I pick up my iPhone, open Drafts, select my future Journal entry, click on the share action, choose Journal, and boom, there it is in Journal. It's not any fewer steps than copy and paste from one device to the other, but once in a great while copy and paste fails to transfer devices for whatever reason, but Drafts always seems to sync perfectly, quickly, and automatically without even thinking about it. I delete my Journal entry from Drafts after I'm sure I've finished editing it. I do hope Journal will come to the Mac eventually and sync as perfectly between devices as Drafts.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

That's curious: I use Drafts enormously and it hadn't occurred to me that I could do this. Thanks.

@ric-carol 9 месяцев назад

The audio microphone works well to dictate entries, which is why I decided to try Journal, as I couldn't be bothered texting.

@johnnyragadoo2414 9 месяцев назад

Document handoff is truly cool. I'm always amazed when I learn those who use lesser OS's don't know about it. In fact, I've learned not to mention it. Not so many years ago you could find yourself in a pillory for witchery of that magnitude. It's better not to stir false hope among the benighted. Paraphrasing Kipling: _As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,_ _I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place._ _Browsing with reverent mouse I watch them flourish and fall,_ _And the Gods of the Blue Screen Exception, I notice, outlast them one and all._ Well, that was dark. Perhaps I can shake that off in a journal entry.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

I really do just unthinkingly use that copy and paste between devices, but there is one version that tickles me so much I wish I could find reason to use it more. You can pinch-in to copy an image on, say, your iPad, and then pinch-out over an iPhone to paste it. This is exactly the same thing, but done with images and gestures, it's like magic.

@tripley66 9 месяцев назад

I saw that Midnight Mass notation...also glad you type well...we have discussed journaling and I gave my recommendations to you. Sorry, gotta go and made a journal entry before I go on the Chocolate Road. Entry will be something like, watched Gallagher will stay with the daily system I've now used 37 years. Bye...happy new year.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Happy new year to you.

@lorenaortega7504 9 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊for the video. The best review I have seen. Very thorough and with a fair and constructive criticism for @Apple to improve the app 👍👏👏

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, that's very good of you to say.

@michellewallace8387 9 месяцев назад

You could also temporarily connect your iPhone to your bluetooth keyboard for lengthier entries?

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Yes. You are so right that I should've thought of that and put it in the video. Please picture me slapping my forehead.

@ArthropodSpidey 9 месяцев назад

"this is simply what happens" Admittedly, I think us Mac users take some of the effortless functionality on Macs for granted. It's dreadful in the Microsoft Windows world. Great video as always, William.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@Jonas_Fox 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for this review. I use Obsidian to Journal and write but the Journal features sound enticing, IF, you can export and import. I look forward to what someone does with the API.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

That's a thought, there is the developer API, isn't there? Someone will do something clever with this. Excellent: I hadn't thought of that.

@WilliamGallagher Месяц назад

RU-vid is insisting that I didn't reply to you about this a year ago -- and yet I can see my reply right here. In case it's been hidden from you for 12 months, the answer is yes. I hope you've not been sitting there waiting for me.

@SFAutor 9 месяцев назад

I'm pretty confident that Apple will release the Journal as a Mac app in the future, just like Freeform.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

That's very annoying: I know I replied to you and yet RU-vid says nope, I didn't. All I said, though, was that I hope you're right. I am confident it will appear on the iPad, but fingers crossed for the Mac too.

@TheBardsCorner 22 часа назад

I’m not an English native speaker. Would you please explain what’s the origin of the “Three Biscuit” expression? I so wish Journal came to Mac and iPad. Thank you!

@WilliamGallagher 22 часа назад

The Three Biscuit phrase is mine rather than an English one. It's a reference to how these videos have to be rather long -- because they attempt to cover everything on a topic in one go -- and so I suggest you need provisions. Biscuits are my favourites, so that's all. It was an idle thought when I first did it but it's caught on: at an event, a stranger brought me three biscuits because of it. That made me so happy.

@TheBardsCorner 20 часов назад

@@WilliamGallagher Amazing! Thank you for sharing the story!

@petermarin 9 месяцев назад

what made you cancel your KM11 video? (great guide, by the way)

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

It's not cancelled, it's just proving preposterously difficult to do. I've also had some odd problems that might be to do with Keyboard Maestro, but might not be, so I'm slowly investigating. You've made me mentally bump it back up the list of priorities, though, thank you.

@devdevai 9 месяцев назад

I need a search feature so badly and I would really, really like if Journal saw what I was doing in safari (on all my devices) or at least what I bookmark. My work-around for the typing issue is to screen mirror to my mac and use a bluetooth keyboard on my phone. Still have to use the phone to add music, podcasts, and photos but that's easy enough as is. When Journal was released in beta, I started using it to have sort-of conversations with arts and culture articles and books. Basically I make notes about what other people's stories/plays/art/music etc. inspired in me or inspired me to create. Now I have probably fifty or sixty entries to dig through for the germs of new projects and I can't search for #newIdea like I assumed I would be able to do

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

I’m not at all sure whether this will help or just mean more for you to go through, but do you know about getting Siri to remind you of things like webpages you’re reading? Whatever you’re doing on your iPhone, say “Siri, remind me about this.” A lot of the time, it will just work. And when it doesn’t, for any reason, Siri asks what you want to be reminded about and you could type something there.

@devdevai 9 месяцев назад

@@WilliamGallagher Oh my goodness, thank you so much. I had no idea that was something Siri could do. I will make a ton of use of it now though

@normancoutts 9 месяцев назад

Well, I will give it a go, but the jury is only just still out in my view. I fear the restrictions may outweigh the value the prompts. I wonder why it is not called Silo. Or StraightJacket. The Shortcut, Remember This, linked to Notes as it is, may well be better for my purposes. But - I'll give it a go for sure. Thanks for the review and prompt.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

I didn't know about Remember This: thank you. One peculiar thing: if you search the Shortcuts Gallery for the words "Remember This", it doesn't find it. Search for just "Remember" and it's there, it's the only result returned. Even though the name displayed is the full "Remember This". Apple is just messing with my head.

@normancoutts 9 месяцев назад

@@WilliamGallagher I liked it and the ideas behind it, but to be honest it has not really stuck and become part of my use - like many of these things. But you do dictate into it - if I recall correctly. I cannot imagine doing long form writing into an iPhone, so Journal is unlikely to be a success for me until text can be dictated in. .

@adityadarekar5497 9 месяцев назад

How about using an external display to connect your iPhone to a Mac? I think it would work only for the 15 lineup since they have usb-c.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

Odd: RU-vid is saying I haven't replied to this and I saw me type to you. If you get this twice, never tell me whether I say something different. What I believe I just wrote was that this does work with the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, but it's specifically for connecting a display to the phone, you're not connecting it to a Mac. You could separately connect a wireless keyboard to the iPhone, though.

@adityadarekar5497 9 месяцев назад

@@WilliamGallagher ah right! I just tried air playing my iPhone screen to the Mac and using a wireless keyboard connected to the iPhone. Unfortunately, there is no landscape mode for the Journal app so its not a great experience.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

@adityadarekar5497 AirPlay! I didn’t think of that and I have used it to get Apple Fitness+ on the Mac. Once.

@mbullwriter 9 месяцев назад

Can't seem to comment here. I've tried, repeatedly, but RU-vid keeps deleting my entry, every time I refresh the page. Hope you don't get half a dozen entries, later. Oh, well...

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

I had that the other week. Cannot fathom why. But what I cleverly thought of and then immediately forgot to do was write a comment, select all and copy it, then tap the button to post it. You are of course welcome to email me on wg@williamgallagher.com.

@mbullwriter 9 месяцев назад

I tried that. After the comment went away the first time, I recreated it, then copied it before sending, but it went away again. I pasted in the copied version and sent again, but still no joy. Tried repeatedly. It was weird. If you're sure you don't mind me emailing you, I could do that. Thanks for the offer. Now watch, this one will go through just fine, I bet. If so, maybe I'll try to remember what I wrote the other day and add it below. @@WilliamGallagher

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

@mbullwriter it worked! I feel RU-vid is denying me conversations: please, email away.

@mbullwriter 9 месяцев назад

Huh. Must have been a fluke. Things seem to be working now. I think what I said the other day about your Journal video is that I like your idea of writing on the Mac and copying over to the phone, but I would far more enjoy the Journal app on MacOS. Think I'll wait for it to arrive there before trying it out. I said some other stuff, but those thoughts are "lost in time, like tears in rain." (Rutger Hauer)

@sidensvans67 9 месяцев назад

IPad iMac Macbook . 

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

A fine trio.

@stephenzeoli8117 9 месяцев назад

Nice introduction to Journal, but this seems like a useless appendage. There are so many better options for keeping a journal on an iPhone, that this seems like a complete waste of Apple's programming efforts.

@WilliamGallagher 9 месяцев назад

It's an odd one. Especially during the beta testing, it felt like they were rushing it but I can't see there was a pressing need. But still, what's good about it is good, I do like it.