<story><title>Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/introducing-journal-2-0-1667b4d295a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hereme888</author><text>I downloaded and installed, but then I saw it forces me to sign up using gmail or apple only. This led me to start reading the privacy policy... you basically collect every webpage I visit, ip, how many times&amp;#x2F;time of day, etc... and sell it to advertisers.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t like advertisers manipulating me through their psychological research into my habits. It&amp;#x27;s unethical.&lt;p&gt;If this software were offered in a way that respected my privacy, I would honestly try it. But for this reason I tend to stick to open source software. It may be much less functional and require more manual work, but it gives me peace of mind.&lt;p&gt;Wish you the best... just not my cup of tea.</text></comment>
<story><title>Journal 2.0: Mental Space for What Matters</title><url>https://blog.usejournal.com/introducing-journal-2-0-1667b4d295a</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andersco</author><text>I went through a multi-step process of trying to access Journal on my phone: being redirected to desktop, checking my inbox for an invite email, going to journal.com, having to download a desktop app, signing in, and then...after all that, I am informed that Journal is invitation only.  I&amp;#x27;d suggest maybe informing users earlier in this process that the app is invitation-only.</text></comment>