About this app

Family Life is complicated. When was the last time you went out with the Smith family and who treated? What was the score the last time Bobby's team played their arch rivals? Who chose the last movie?

With Family Journal, you can record and recall memories for you and your family.

Start by creating an event. The unique user interface shows a list of local businesses that you can easily choose from or enter your own. Creating an event takes you to the Event Details page where you can select the type of event and family members who participated. With the More screen, you can set alerts for an upcoming event as well and specify that an event recurs. Family members can rate any event. With each event, you can list family contacts (e.g., friends) who were with the family. Events can have any number of diary notes, photos and videos.

Once you have created a few events, you can search for them by name, date, type, place, and family members or family contacts who participated. Sort by name, date or specific event type elements. For example, who chose the last movie? Select an event type and data for only that type of event is displayed. Once a type is selected you can select a field to see the values. For example, Measures : Weight. If there is data, a graph icon lets you graph the changes over time. Finally, tap to go to that event.

Pop-up hints help you get started and you can turn them off when no longer needed. There is a Calendar View to show events by month with color coded indicators for each family member. The Map View shows locations visited. The Distance view shows distance between events. The Album View shows photos and videos within a date range. Diary View shows the same for diary notes. Three reports are included in Reports with more coming. There is a special birthday reminder for family members and family contacts.

Options allow you to configure how Family Journal behaves for you. You can choose Metric or English Measurements, Location Tracking, show or hide hints, enable birthday reminders or set notifications for new features. Family Journal recognizes international measurements and monetary symbols for different countries.

There are specific event types for:
- Generic – when another event type doesn’t apply.
- Celebrations – Life celebrations like births, graduations, weddings, etc.
- Exercise – Get moving and record what you’ve accomplished.
- Finance – Transactions with Current Value Report.
- Fuel – automatically calculated MPG.
- Holiday – Holiday celebrations, meals eaten, family and friends
- Illness – How many times was Bobby sick last year. Are there any patterns?
- Labor – Time spent on work or chores.
- Lodging – Record hotels & motels, number of nights, services provided and bill.
- Maintenance – for Home, Car, Boat, etc
- Meals – Including drinks, appetizers, entrees and desserts. Tip calculator and record of who paid.
- Measures – such as height and weight.
- Medical Visits – Visit Reasons, Providers Seen, Procedures, Instructions, etc.
- Medicines Taken – Record all your medicines and set up reminders.
- Movies Seen – Press the IMDb button to search movie title and retrieve information about it.
- Personal Care – Haircuts for him and salon visits for her. Or vice versa.
- Reading – Books and associated genres.
- Theatre – Have you been to the theatre lately or is one of your children is a budding thespian.
- Report Card – for all your students.
- Shopping – for items purchased.
- Sleep - Analyze sleep patterns with the accompanying Sleep Reports.
- Sports – Who won, and by how much
- Travel - Trips, mileage, point rewards, etc.
- Visits – Maybe you’re seeing a sick friend.
- Worship - Religious events, places, sermon summaries, prayers, readings, etc.

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New features

On Search Events, select a Type, then search on any field
Ability to reorder photos within an Event.
Added Audio to events.
Added Speech to Text input for Notes.
Added Arrows to scroll through photos & videos on Photo View screen.
Album scrolls to last event.
Fixed IMDb interface for Movie Events.

App Permissions

Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows read only access to phone state, including the phone number of the device, current cellular network information, the status of any ongoing calls, and a list of any PhoneAccounts registered on the device.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows an application to record audio.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows an application to read from external storage.
Allows an application to write to external storage.