Journals can be awesome tools for the mind, as they can help you keep track of your thoughts and feelings. If, however, you’re looking for something that can also help you thoroughly organize your thoughts, reflect on tasks, or better handle to-do lists, then a bullet journal is better suited.
As its name suggests, a bullet journal uses bullet points to help you organize and plan your tasks. That said, if Linux is your OS of choice, then you might want to check out Journable, a simple bullet journal app.
The good parts
There are a couple of key elements that make up a bullet journal. These include an index-like structure, a calendar, and various ways to enter content: either by writing or by drawing.
Sadly, Journable only offers you the option to write, but regardless, it’s a good app, even though definitely not the most stylish one out there. The GUI is quite plain with a simple top bar that allows you to Open, Clear, or Save journal entries, as well as create new ones.
The rest of the GUI is made up of eight sections: six of them are for the days of a week (Saturday and Sunday are both listed as “Weekend”), and two separate sections allow you to write down tasks for this month and the next month.
Overall, Journable offers its users a very simple, minimalistic experience, but it does come at the cost of flexibility.
The not so good parts
As is the case with most WYSIWYG apps, you may end up wanting a bit more features. The whole point of a bullet journal is to “make it your own.” Journable doesn’t allow you to tweak much of the GUI (you can’t even change the general dimensions of its sections).
Bullet journals are usually very efficient because, as mentioned before, they allow you to both write or draw things on them. This is another chapter that doesn’t favor Journable.
Conclusion
If a journal app is what you’re after, then there are far far better options out there. However, if you find the concept of bullet journals appealing, Journable is not a bad place to start, despite all its shortcomings.
