The Friendly Diary

The Friendly Diary helps keep a personal journal of day to day thoughts, feelings, dreams, ideas and important events. It supports multiple diaries for each member of a family. Helps keep track of anniversaries, has spell checking and a selection of skins.

Pros: The Friendly Diary is an excellent way to keep a personal journal of day to day thoughts, feelings, dreams, ideas and important events of your life. Several documents driven by the calendar can be created. There’s a simple editor that helps create the notes on each page. One could add an icon per page from a set built in the diary. Background color scheme, or the skin, can be changes by clicking through a fixed sequence. There’s a simple spell check also available.

Tools available have back up and restore options. Additional tools help format the diary pages into Word/RTF documents. Birthdays/Anniversary dates can be noted. User interface is nicely laid out of course.

Cons: The birthdays can only be noted on the calendar but there are no way one can set reminders/alarms to these dates. Without that one can easily miss the dates.

The whole thing looks like a note making application with date available that has a simple editor with spell check! It is nicely organized but functionally not much that cannot be accomplished otherwise.

Overall rating is 3 stars.

The Friendly Diary is an excellent way to keep a personal journal of day to day thoughts, feelings, dreams, ideas and important events of your life. Every member of your family can create his/her own diary with unlimited entries. The diary also supports color schemes, anniversaries, spell checking, tagging entries with an image to describe your mood and much more. Diaries are strongly encrypted and password protected, so nobody else can read your thoughts. You can freely download it and try it yourself.