Before a shortcut will appear in Siri, you must first use that function in the app. Open Journal - opens Lifecraft and selects the Journal view. ![]() Rather than offer Lifecraft as a perpetual license like Daylife, Chronos has made the apps free to use, with the catch that you’ll have to pay a $15 per year subscription to get the good stuff, namely iCloud sync, unlimited journals and photos, emotion tracking, tags, favorites, and password locking. Lifecraft currently supports 2 shortcuts: New Journal Entry - opens Lifecraft and creates a new journal entry in the last selected journal. On a more positive note, you can now click on imported photos to view them larger, and Daylife’s unique scrolling horizontal carousel for multiple images remains intact, along with the menu bar helper app the latter can assign emotions now, but was quite slow at doing so. One thing unchanged on Mac is import/export Lifecraft remains limited to text only, even when printing or saving as PDF, and there’s still no way to share entries with friends, family, or social networks. Lifecraft is also available on iPhone, and with an annual Pro subscription, uses iCloud to sync all of your entries from the Mac version. I was able to spend time testing on both devices and found sync quite effortlessly, while the iOS app is well-designed and equally easy to use, with only one minor feature absent (there’s no to-do list in the sidebar). Well, almost: at the time of this review the iPhone app is about to launch, with native iPad display support close behind. ENCRYPTION Your information is always encrypted whether it’s stored on your device, in the cloud, or on its way to the cloud. Your Compass messages, challenges, emotion log, and journal entries are automatically synced to all of your iPhones, iPads and Macs. Journals are no longer isolated to the Mac where they were created, and can now be created, viewed, or edited from any device. Lifecraft Premium uses iCloud to sync, which is both secure and reliable. Lifecraft remedies two of my biggest Daylife complaints: Lack of cloud sync and iOS support. If that’s not enough, there’s also comprehensive support for custom tags, which can also be used to filter search results. ![]() ![]() You can also click the smiley button next to the search field, which pops up the “emotion tree”-a graph displaying the number of posts assigned to each emotion, which can be used to apply filters for viewing only Happy or Sad entries, for example. Lifecraft borrows what worked in the former Daylife app for Mac and adds a few compelling features like emotion tracking and hierarchical journals.
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