Here’s a short list of some of the meta-data you can add to your notes: You can use that meta-data for smart-journal selection, sorting or just visibly adding information to your notes. MJ allows you to hitch a lot of meta-data to each entry. This one is simply based on finding a tag. In MacJournal you can set up Smart Journals that hunt through your entries to find those that meet a certain criteria. But I will add the spark tag to those notes, and then I have a smart journal gather those tagged notes together. Rather than stash my spark notes in a dedicated journal, I prefer to leave them in the journal in which the idea first came to me, where I might get some insight based upon their context. For example, when I am creating diary entries, I tag the ones that refer to an important event as “notable.” Then I have a smart journal that hunts up the “notable” entries, so at the end of the year I can have a quick summary of the important happenings.Īnother smart journal I have is for spark notes. With MJ, I can add tags as needed, or forget about it. I like having the option to add tags, but I hate having to create tags to put my notes in order. This is how I like to organize my notes, which is one of the major reasons I don’t use Bear for note-taking… it only has tag-organization. You can see from the screen shot at the top of this post that I have several topic/purpose-related journals in my main document. You can also create BOOKS, which I’ll touch on later. You can also create sub-journals and SMART JOURNALS. Inside each journal you can create individual ENTRIES. Inside the document, you create JOURNALS. MacJournal calls the file you open to work in a DOCUMENT. I’ve found that MacJournal handles these all elegantly and powerfully.īefore I discuss how, let’s get a few definitions out of the way. Some of the types of entries I want to keep in my digital notebook: A journal belongs in a notebook (or set of notebooks), which is why I used that word in the title of this post. You may find that you write enough about a certain subject that you want to group those entries in their own sub-journal.
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