Hey Sumo-lings,

Quick but important update: the app you backed, Journal it!, is now called LiveIt. Same app, same team, same account, same data — and your lifetime deal is fully honored under the new name. Nothing changes in how the app works for you: every feature you have stays exactly where it is, your access and plan are untouched, and there's no new paywall or downgrade. You don't need to do anything.

Why the rename? After nine years, "Journal it!" stopped describing the app. What started as a journaling app has grown into an all-in-one life organizer — daily planner, tasks and goals, habits, notes, trackers, and the journal tying it all together. I'd wanted to rename it for a while but no name felt right. LiveIt finally does. It's what the app is actually for: living your days well and becoming the best version of yourself. The web home is now liveit.me (old journalit.app links still work and redirect).

Since you came aboard, the app has kept getting bigger. The latest release (10.5) is one of the largest yet:

- Habits, redesigned from the ground up — habits can now hold subtasks, connect to your collections, and schedule themselves through the planner. Work through a reading list, a show backlog, or any queue one item at a time, and the app handles the hand-off to the next item automatically.

- The editor features you asked for — text color, indent/outdent, tables, a slash-command menu, and find-in-note. Every part of LiveIt shares this editor, so it applies to notes, journal entries, and descriptions alike.

- A real desktop experience — a proper expanding sidebar, kanban boards for Objectives and Organizers, and real desktop selection (shift-click, Cmd/Ctrl-click, keyboard nav).

- LiveIt on Windows — the fifth platform, joining Android, iOS, macOS, and web, with full sync across all of them.

- CSV export for trackers and collections, free for everyone.

And here's the part I'm most excited about: the next major release is about making LiveIt a companion that works with you proactively, not just a tool that waits for input. That's where the name is pointing.

Thank you for being early believers — your support and reviews genuinely helped this thing grow. If you try what's new, tell me what works and what doesn't through Send feedback in the app. I read everything.

— Hai, founder of LiveIt

What's New:

- Whiteboard - a new fourth note type alongside text, outline, and collection. An infinite canvas with cards, mind maps, shapes, frames, connectors, freehand drawing, images, stickers, and live embeds views

- Visual Guide - a step-by-step tour of the whole app pinned to the top of your notes list, laid out as an interactive whiteboard

- Four new sign-in options - Microsoft, Dropbox, Box, and pCloud, alongside Google and Apple

- Connected calendars rework - connect as many calendars from as many accounts as you like, independent of how you signed in. Microsoft Outlook now supported alongside Google Calendar.

Hi, I'm Hai — the developer behind Journal it!

I started journaling in 2014. In 2015, I taught myself programming and looked at the journaling apps available. They were boring — they just copied paper journals, nothing innovative, not really taking advantage of what smartphones can do. So I decided to build my own.

Then I discovered the bullet journal method: journaling, planning, and note-taking in one place. Why keep them separate? Over time I kept pulling in ideas from other methods — GTD, PARA, second brain, outlining — and Journal it! grew into what it is today: one integrated system to journal, plan, and organize your life.

I'm excited to be on AppSumo because it puts Journal it! in front of exactly the right people — productivity enthusiasts who are serious about finding better tools and aren't afraid to invest in them.

After nearly a decade of building in relative quiet, this is a real chance to share something I care deeply about with a much larger audience. And the honest feedback from AppSumo users is something I look forward to — it's one of the fastest ways to learn what's working and what to build next.

Welcome, and I hope Journal it! becomes a lasting part of how you organize your life.

— Hai