Day One is a journaling app for OS X that allows you to write entries, add photos, tag locations, and categorize your entries. Beautiful, streamlined design: Day One is extremely intuitive.

Day One, the well-known journaling app by, was an unmistakable success. On both iOS and Mac, it amassed multiple awards for both its design and quality of the experience. Through positive reviews and loyal users, Day One rose to the top of the charts and received recognition from Apple's App Store team.

Although one might think that Bloom Built would be content to sit back and let the success continue, shows that this assumption is far from the truth. Through some added features and fresh coat of paint, Day One 2, launching today, is definitely an improvement – but with today's App Store littered with text editors, can Day One still hold its place and purpose? Day One 2 is a new app on iOS and OS X, both in the features/design and the download itself. If you've paid for Day One in the past, you will have to pick up a new copy on both platforms. While this could be remedied in the future by upgrade pricing in the App Store, running that narrative into the ground isn't something you came here to read.

Visual Changes On the visual side, Day One 2 has made a lot of changes for the better. Whereas the main screen on the old app was one page, 2.0 divides different features into various menus that can be navigated using a toolbar at the bottom ( Note: I'll be discussing the context of the app on iOS. I'll get to the Mac later.).

Camera decals for mac. The new default screen may feel similar, though, with the inclusion of a couple of quick-add options at the top, followed immediately below by some statistics. Users of Day One will remember this from version 1.0, and its inclusion is a nice carryover. Also included is access to the most recent journal entries to preview. Functional Changes. Map view with pinpoints of journal entries that I've written.

Day One 2 introduces a new map screen on iOS that shows where you've logged journal entries. It's a nice way to visualize your story – if you've gone on a trip or tend to write in different coffee shops, you can see those locations with entries on a map. There's also an option to 'View Visible Region in Timeline,' which means that you can get a summary of all entries written within the area you can see on the map. Built in is a photo viewer, which allows you to see what photos you've uploaded in one large collection. This is new to Mac and its inclusion in a dedicated tab is definitely useful.

Additionally, a calendar displaying days you've journaled can be found in the last section of the toolbar. Although journal entries haven't gotten as much attention as other features, there's one big change that will cause rejoicing from long-time Day One fans: multiple images per entry. Instead of picking out the best image and hoping it is a good representation of the day, you can now select up to ten and insert them into your journal entry. Day One 2's entries can still be as robust as you desire to make them.

If you'd like to add in weather information or your step count, it's done automatically after granting the app permission. There's a great selection of customization to choose from and it creates a more comprehensive logging experience. Organizational Changes. The default journal paired with a MacStories journal, both with assigned colors. In previous versions of Day One, users were stuck with only one journal. It was a limiting restriction, of course, because it could only be organized with tags – it was as if everything was being dumped into a single bucket.

Luckily, 2.0 solves this problem by including multiple journals that can be switched to and from at any time. Each journal has a different color that displays throughout the app when selected. What's so smart about this, however, is how it's implemented throughout the app.