Expert’s Rating
Our Verdict
For many multitude , the need to immortalise daily bit and natural event in a paper journal has been replace by Twitter , Tumblr , blogs , Facebook , and e-mail . If you wonder what you were doing on March 23 , you could do a quick lookup or your Gmail inbox , check your WordPress web log , or glance over that day ’s social networking post . But sharing with an audience can produce immensely different records than a private journal entry to yourself .
Per Sedoes its best to approximate on the Mac the old school pulp and ink journaling experience , while sum up in some very cool features that could only exist in a digital notebook computer . It is not a putz for managing or parsing a flow of complex ideas . alternatively , it is an uncomplicated , visceral little coating that just wants to know how your twenty-four hour period went .
Per Se has three design options that resemble an opened book . The left side of the pageboy part with the particular date , followed by a vacuous space for you to fulfill up with thoughts . Those thoughts are n’t limited to text in Per Se — you could impart images or snap a unexampled one with your iSight photographic camera ( there are even a few sport pic filter you could implement ) , phonograph record audio or video , give in a design or emoticon from the app ’s depository library , or add a eminence that looks like a gluey note or torn piece of paper of paper . The text itself can be formatted to include table , lists , and checkboxes . If you fill up the page , it take you to a fresh one instead of scrolling down .
On top of the right - hand Sir Frederick Handley Page are controls and navigation option . There are button for sneak in all the multimedia goodies we mentioned above , but also key organizing instrument . The Bookmarks / Tag tool allows you to tot up usage shred or bookmarks to any ingress in your daybook , useful for keeping track of all your brilliant idea ( rag : Idea ) or grapheme in your life-time ( tags : mom , dad , Enrique ) . The calendar icon opens up a month view , and each Clarence Day that already has an debut is underscore . come home to leap to another date . The Search / Browse option grant you to search entry by rag or any keyword .
The size of the book is fix , but you may shift to the mis - named full screen style , which actually just fill the rest your screen with the book ’s accent color . It does help minimize distractions , but using the additional real estate for actual words would be more helpful .
There ’s one major drawback to Per Se : It has very circumscribed exportation options . you’re able to print a day ’s first appearance to PDF or export it as a RTF file cabinet . But you’re able to only impress or export do one appointment at a time , so if you make up one’s mind to shift daybook applications or make a print version of your year ’s thoughts , you ’re out of lot . The developer has promise to add more exportation option in future updates .
