YaxJournal - a LiveJournal client for OS X

YaxJournal is a LiveJournal offline client for OS X.

About YaxJournal.

YaxJournal is no longer being developed and is incompatible with the current LiveJournal system.
Please do not email me about your problems with YaxJournal.

YaxJournal is a client for the online journal service LiveJournal.

In particular this is a well featured offline client, meaning you can download your journal, make changes and new entries to your own and shared journals without an internet connection or web browser, and synchronize those changes with your online journal whenever you choose.

It requires a LiveJournal account.

If you enjoy using YaxJournal, perhaps you'd like to make a contribution to the poor free-ware developers fund...

Features:

Make entries to your journal (or journals) offline.
Synchronize with your online journals.
Make entries to shared journals (LiveJournal communities).
Edit your past entries offline.
Personalise your entries with Current Music, Current Mood and Pictures (pictures can even be smart matched to your mood!).
Control the security level of your entries, and whether you allow comments.
Shows connection progress while synchronizing.
Access your LiveJournal pages via the Web menu.

You can check development progress of yaxjournal on its own LiveJournal page.

Using YaxJournal

Here's a download link for YaxJournal (as a compressed disk image).

Version 1.0.5 (2/1/2002)

Fixed non-display of downloaded entries.
Fixed endless loop over deleted entries on sync.
Fixed web web web web bug.
Added choice of proxy server at first login.

Version 1.0.4 (23/8/2001)

Various bugfixes.
lj-poll tags are not yet recognised but won't crash YaxJournal now.

Version 1.0.2 (22/7/2001)

Fixed display bugs & glitches.
Fixed bug in CGI encode/decode.
Fixed bug with inactive web menu.
(All thanks to Jens Alfke)

Version 1.0.1 (20/7/2001)

Fixed display bugs & glitches.
Fixed bugs when updating moods and music.
Mood list now maintained alphabetically.
Journal pages can be printed.
Contextual and Edit menu options (with keyboard shortcuts) to insert <lj-cut>, <lj-cut text="selection">, <lj user="selection">, <a href="selection">selection</a> tags into text (with undo implemented).
Show entries in groups eg. [last 10 entries][ entries 4..13 ][ entries 1..3 ]
'Download latest version' added to web menu when a new version is uploaded.

Known Issues

Opens a new journal when no journal is open, which might become irritating.
Workaround - launch using your YaxJournal file.

Feature Comparison

The following grid indicates which features are working on each platform:
(information from LiveJournal's comparisons as published 12th July 2001)

YaxJournal Web Win Gtk Mac Be Perl Tcl/Tk mIRC

Update Journal X X X X X X X X X

Single-Line mode
(space-saving) X X X X X

Large textbox entry mode X X X X X X X

Edit Friends X X X

... and Friend Groups X X

Edit History
(past entries) X X X X

Post non-public entries
(private, friends-only, certain groups...) except by
friend groups except by
friend groups X except by
friend groups

Multi-user
(and remembers password, etc..) X n/a X X

Spell-checker X X X X

Current Mood X X X X

Current Music X X X X

... with autodetect with WinAmp with XMMS

Note:

Internationalization is a work in progress, I really need some people to help with translations (we're only English/German bilingual in this household).

Giles Williams

	YaxJournal	Web	Win	Gtk	Mac	Be	Perl	Tcl/Tk	mIRC
Update Journal	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Single-Line mode (space-saving)			X		X		X	X	X
Large textbox entry mode	X	X	X	X		X	X		X
Edit Friends		X	X	X
... and Friend Groups		X	X
Edit History (past entries)	X	X	X	X
Post non-public entries (private, friends-only, certain groups...)	except by friend groups	except by friend groups	X	except by friend groups
Multi-user (and remembers password, etc..)	X	n/a	X	X
Spell-checker	X	X	X	X
Current Mood	X	X	X	X
Current Music	X	X	X	X
... with autodetect			with WinAmp	with XMMS

About YaxJournal.

Version 1.0.5 (2/1/2002)

Feature Comparison

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