Journaling is a beautiful practice.

Apple’srumored new journaling appcoming with iOS 17can offer both convenience and privacy.

“Apple has a long-standing reputation for prioritizing user privacy and security.

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Privacy From Day One

The go-to journaling app for Apple users has long beenDay One.

And Day One has, from the beginning, been a great example of an app thatdoes privacy right.

Here’sits privacy pledge, but the best way to judge it is to look at its history.

The Day One journaling app show on an Apple Watch, iPhone, MacBook, and iPad.

Day One

And it doesn’t really matter if you distrust Apple because it’s another big-tech company.

A home-grown journaling app could offer way more seamless integration with the data sources on your phone.

As mentioned above, it can pull in photos and videos and put them on a map.

Handwritten journal pages sitting on a pillow on a window sill.

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It could pull information from your calendar and so on.