Moleskine Journey Life Planner 4+

This app has given me a new perspective to life. I am naturally a planner and professionally I coordinate programs and projects. So, I am inclined to organize and plan my life though I have often failed at it. This app combines many aspects of what you need in a day to feel grateful, balanced and productive. I absolutely love it. I have previously used many apps to do the same things I can now do in one. Great interface and very easy to use. I also use Timepage and together they are comprehensive. I look forward to future updates to this app and would like to see a few minor things. For example, I wish I could set days for my challenges. I like intermittent fasting but not on Sundays. So, I wish there was a way to select the days because then it would not mess up my score. I am also an Apple Pencil user (first generation) and would love to write in the journal section. However, this may be a non-factor with the upcoming Apple Scribble. I would also like widget support. Overall, this app is phenomenal and a game changer for managing yourself daily. I also like the project section and started using that section to keep track of the books I want to read in the year broken out by month, etc. I find this section fantastic for those smaller projects the pop up. This app along with my project planning and project management app completes me!

Without my calendar, my to-do lists and my journal, my life falls apart. Up until this point, I cobbled together a structure to support myself out of several apps. It worked, yes, but it was always obvious that it could work better. I tried several organization apps hoping that they would fulfill my needs, but all of them were disappointing.

Journey is just what I’ve always hoped for! One app which displays the day’s schedule, my daily chores list, the tasks I want to do today and this week, my morning journal, my food log, my gratitude list and my most important daily goals. It sounds like it might be trying to do too much, but in practice it is perfectly streamlined and and usable. That’s because of the flexible habit system, which allows you to display and customize precisely what you find most useful. Sick of practicing gratitude or journaling? It’s really just a free-form text field that resets each day: call it whatever you want and write whatever you want in there.

In the week I’ve been using Journey, I’ve taken my old, scattered systems and turned them into one easy-to-access system that’s made me much more productive. It’s well worth the subscription and the time it took to learn to use the program and rework my daily habits.

“Oh how excellent!”... that’s what slipped out from me when I realized what all this app does! And that’s not usual language for me! This definitely replaces my paper planner I loved and depended on for so long. It lists appointments from your calendar (or calendars...configurable) pleasingly with your reminders & tasks you set for the day. By default, this is preceded by an overarching goal or goals for the day. (I titled mine “Goals and Aspirations”...it’s all configurable.) Scrolling vertically I then see challenges (basically like a habit tracker, things like “Do the workouts”). What about Diary / Work Record you say? Next comes a text area for that with an ingenious Time-Stamp shortcut to begin your entries. You can plant Tasks and Events on future days (just like with a paper planner)! Oh, and it’s searchable!!! You’ll have to explore a little to get the hang of all of it, but it’s worth it. I sure don’t mind paying for this app. It doesn’t cost any more than my paper planners used to. I plan to depend on this one. I hope it never goes away!