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Blogging is a major phenomenon; just about everyone has one, these days. There is a risk, though, when the daily record of your life, perhaps years' worth of activity, resides on a remote server which can be vulnerable to calamity. WinJournal attempts to solve this problem by allowing the user to journal on their local PC, then upload the entry to a blog --or simply retain a journal at home, the way people did in the time before LiveJournal.

WinJournal has a very simple interface. A user may create multiple journals, but cannot open or create a new set. (Thus, multiple users of the same PC must share one journal data file.) New entries are easily created and edited, and are timestamped. The editor allows a user to set background color, font, style, and so on. WinJournal supports a tabbed interface, which allows easy browsing of multiple entries, but it is not intuitive how to turn this on. Although you can select 'Open in new tab' from the journal entries list, you will not see the tabs unless you turn on 'Always Show Tab Bar' from the preferences window.

To upload to a blog, the user must specify the blog site, along with their username and password. WinJournal supports many popular blog sites, but not all of them--Xanga, for example, is missing. It is possible to upload an entry to different blogs, or to set a default blog for the entire journal.

Overall, this program is most likely useful to those uncomfortable with browser-based editors or those who want a simple, straightforward, tool for keeping a personal journal. It is functional, but not spectacular.

--Ian Harac