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Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 7, 2018 at 12:09 PM
BTW, WiFi sync does not always work on mesh networks. I find it is more reliable to create a network on my laptop, connect the iPad to that network, and then sync MJ on both machines.
Posted by steve-rogers
Jul 7, 2018 at 01:41 PM
MacJournal has been getting so much love here in the past few days that I felt compelled to download and try for the first time yesterday. I have to admit that I wasn’t that imprssed. I put it through its paces and managed to crash it three times within ten minutes. Is it stable? Seems to be a problem with changing icons for an entry.
Steve
Posted by Dellu
Jul 7, 2018 at 02:25 PM
steve-rogers wrote:
MacJournal has been getting so much love here in the past few days that
>I felt compelled to download and try for the first time yesterday. I
>have to admit that I wasn’t that imprssed. I put it through its
>paces and managed to crash it three times within ten minutes. Is it
>stable? Seems to be a problem with changing icons for an entry.
>Steve
I have been using it for a couple of months now (since Day One went subscription), it never crashed on me.
Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Jul 7, 2018 at 04:46 PM
steve-rogers wrote:
MacJournal has been getting so much love here in the past few days that
>I felt compelled to download and try for the first time yesterday. I
>have to admit that I wasn’t that imprssed. I put it through its
>paces and managed to crash it three times within ten minutes. Is it
>stable? Seems to be a problem with changing icons for an entry.
>Steve
I can crash it 100% of the time by trying to change the icon for an entry. I’m intrigued, but feel as Cap does—worried about stability and longevity.
Posted by satis
Jul 8, 2018 at 05:16 PM
MacJournal seems to have been in maintenance mode for many years, with little beyond periodic bugfixes to the app. (We’ve seen the dev Mariner Software do this with MacGourmet as well.) From what I can tell it was last updated for the Mac in November 2016. (MacGourmet was last updated April 2016, MacGournet Deluxe got a bugfix in July 2017, and Mariner Write hasn’t seen an update since September 2015).
In the mean time Mariner bundles MacJournal with other apps on a regular basis so it barely costs anything to buy—which should worry users who want to see devs paid enough to continue to work on the app. Most recently it sold as part of a $29 bundle along with Montage, Storymill, Narrator, Contour 2, Persona and Mariner Write.
This seems more and more like a shell of a software company milking its products than developing and building up and on software.
Finally, there’s a question of whether you’re being tracked while using this software. On MacUpdate someone wrote that after installing the developer’s MacGourmet app “Simply launching the program when connected to the internet will immediately connect the user to close on 100 (yes ONE HUNDRED) monetising advertising, tagging and tracking servers.”
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15128/macgourmet