This free app makes journaling so easy that I've managed to do it for 3 months

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ZDNET key takeaways

• Diarly is the best journaling app I've ever used.
• It makes journaling easy and actually pleasant.
• The app is available for all Apple devices.

It's been a rough year for me. So much so that I found myself needing to do something I thought that I'd never do… journal.

Journaling for someone who writes for a living is like an auto mechanic working on their own car: they know they need to, but the idea of doing it, after a long day of working on other people's cars, isn't exactly their idea of fun.

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But my therapist said journaling would be good for me, so I decided to give it a go ...