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macOS Sequoia 15.1 introduced Apple Intelligence to Apple Silicon Macs. One exciting addition for Mémoires users is the Writing Tools feature, designed to help refine and polish your writing effortlessly.

Mémoires already includes Writing Tools support without any extra downloads. Once you update macOS and enable Apple Intelligence, you can use Writing Tools, by selecting text in the editor and right-clicking on it. In the context menu, you will see the Writing Tools option.

We are happy to report that all our Mac apps are compatible with the new version of macOS, macOS Sequoia.

Introducing the new I Write Like! It’s now a writer-focused Markdown text processor equipped with a suite of tools to analyze and enhance your writing.

The new I Write Like is a Markdown editor that helps you write better by providing real-time readability analysis, text statistics, keyword and sentence rank analysis, AI-powered editing and more. It’s designed to help you focus on your writing and improve your style.

Of course, the core feature of I Write Like is still there: you can check which famous writer you write like using our statistical analyzer. However, it now also works completely offline and doesn’t send your text to our server for processing.

Go to iwl.me to try it out.

We are happy to announce the launch of our new app for macOS, Calcish.

Calcish is an app for macOS that combines the functionality of a calculator, code editor, and AI assistant into one user-friendly notebook interface.

For coders and programmers, Calcish serves as an upgraded JavaScript playground. You can quickly test code snippets, manipulate data structures, call APIs, and see results formatted neatly. Calcish is based on QuickJS, which adds useful math features like high-precision calculations, fraction arithmetic, vector/matrix operations, and decimal number types.

But Calcish isn’t just for developers. It’s designed to be an accessible all-in-one notebook for anyone who needs to crunch numbers, explore algorithms, or get assistance from AI. The clean notebook layout makes it easy to mix text, code, rich outputs and AI-generated content.

A global hotkey summons Calcish Scratchpad from anywhere. Your scratchpads can be saved as “codebooks” for later reference or editing.

One of Calcish’s standout features is that along with support for large language models like OpenAI GPT-4, GPT-3.5 and Cohere via API, it provides a one-click download for open source local AI models, which run directly on your Mac for better privacy.

Calcish is available for free on the Mac App Store. You can search for “Calcish” or find a link on calcish.com. Check it out!

Happy macOS Sonoma release day!

We are glad to report that our Mac apps are compatible with the new version of macOS.

We have released Mémoires 5.0.1.

It’s a minor update that includes the following improvements:

• Fixed an issue with the alignment of printed pages.
• Fixed issues related to embedding files.
• Updated the scrypt key derivation function code.

Mémoires will notify you automatically about the update. If you use the App Store version, it will be installed automatically if you have such option enabled.

We published a new article:

How to Write a Journal: A Comprehensive Guide.

It’s a guide to journaling, with tips and tricks to get you started.

Here’s the table of contents:

1. Make a Commitment to Write Regularly
2. Choose Tools That Are Convenient and Inspiring
3. Just Write: Overcoming the Initial Hurdles and Embracing the Process
4. Add Photos and AI-Generated Images to Your Journal
5. Experiment with Different Styles
6. Review Your Journal Regularly: The Key to Growth and Self-Reflection

Read the complete guide »

We also published The Complete Journaling FAQ that answers many of the questions you might have about the practice of journaling.

Recently AI has become a hot topic, with many tools appearing to help us with our daily tasks. While I don’t think it’s useful to use text-generating AI for writing a journal, since the point of journaling is to write about your own experiences, I found that AI image generation is a great way to enhance my journaling.

At the end of the day, after finishing writing my journal entry, I think of a sentence that represents my day and let AI imagine what it looks like, in a style of a painting or a photo. I feed this sentence as a prompt to the image generating program and save the output to my journal in Mémoires. (I also type the original sentence as a caption under it.)

Examples

Camping near a mountain, enjoying the beautiful scenery, realistic painting.

Three people meeting at a cafe under a tree, black and white pencil drawing.

Here’s how to do it

If you want to try it yourself, I recommend one of the following tools that use Stable Diffusion to generate images on your Mac without sending anything to the cloud, for ultimate privacy:

• DiffusionBee
• Amazing AI

Download and launch the app, then type out your sentence as a prompt, and click “Generate”. If you don’t like the result, try generating again with the same prompt or, perhaps, try a slightly different prompt.

If you use DiffusionBee, click on the burger menu next to the image and select “Upscale Image” to make it larger.

Save the image somewhere and then drag it into your entry in Mémoires. (Since Mémoires can store multiple entries per day, I prefer to save images under a separate entry called “Pic of the day”.)

That’s it! Happy journaling… with AI!

We are happy to report that all our Mac apps — Mémoires, Video Mémoires, and I Write Like — are fully compatible with the newly released macOS Ventura.

We’re happy to announce the release of Video Mémoires 3, our easy-to-use Mac video diary app!

What’s New

• 🍎 Apple Silicon support.
• 👁 New recording flow: click + Add to see the preview and then click Record to record.
• 🎥 Camera selection.
• ⏰ Recording time: 🔴 00:01:23
• 💅 Updated user interface design.
• New icon.

How to upgrade

This update is free for all users of Video Mémoires.

If you purchased Video Mémoires from our website, you’ll get a notification about it when starting the app. If it’s already running, click “Video Mémoires > Check for Updates…”.

If you purchased Video Mémoires from the Mac App Store, you’ll get the upgrade automatically.

How to get it

Head to the product page to get it!