Tuesday, 30 January 2024

TOOL: Journaling with the Apple Journal App

Why Journaling is important

Journaling is a great way to reflect on your experiences, thoughts, and emotions, and learn from them. It can help you gain insights into your strengths, weaknesses, and patterns of behaviour, leading to personal growth and self-awareness. 

Short video on the power of journaling.


I suggest you use the new Apple Journal app to get going

Apple Journal is a new iPhone app that helps users capture and write about their everyday moments and special events, and offers personalised suggestions to inspire journal entries. With Journal, you can capture and write about everyday moments and special events in your life, and include photos, videos, audio recordings, locations, and more to create rich memories. On-device machine learning provides private, personalised suggestions to inspire journal entries, and customisable notifications help users develop their writing habits. 

To use Apple Journal as a tool for personal development, you can start by logging a simple text entry, or adding rich details like photos, videos, locations, or audio recordings to add more context. You can browse past entries, bookmark them, or filter for details like photos, workouts, places, and more. Scheduled notifications can help make journaling a consistent practice. Intelligently curated personalised suggestions are designed to help you remember and write about a moment — like new places you’ve visited, photos you’ve taken, songs you’ve played, workouts you’ve completed, and more. Suggestions based on your activity include writing prompts to empower meaningful insights, and daily reflection prompts help you focus on gratitude, kindness, purpose, and more. You control the type of content that appears in Suggestions and can create a journal entry with the Suggestions you choose. 


Apple Support explain how to use Journal.


An experienced journal user says Apple Journal is not perfect but it is a great tool to get you going on Journaling. He also feels that Apple will, like they have done with Reminders and Note, continue to improve the app. So please give it a go and use it for your personal development. 



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