Everything you need to start journaling in PJ.

• Your Apple Watch reliably hands recordings to your phone — if a voice note ever got stuck “sending,” that’s fixed. PJ keeps retrying on its own until each one comes over, even while the Watch screen is asleep.
• “Check my Watch” tells you more — it shows “Checking your Watch…”, re-sends anything that was stuck, and gives you a clear answer. If your Watch isn’t awake, it says so and keeps bringing them over in the background.
• A live count as they arrive — instead of a frozen “sending,” you’ll see “2 of 3 still to come…” ending on “All caught up.”
• Pull to refresh always works — the “waiting on your Watch” notice no longer blocks pulling down to refresh your timeline.

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. This is the version submitted to the App Store.

• The lock now covers your journal, even mid-edit — with a passcode set, the lock comes down over everything the moment you leave PJ, including an entry you were in the middle of editing, and asks for your passcode or Face ID when you come back.
• Typing a long entry no longer jumps — the words stay steady and the cursor stays where you are, in a new entry, in “Fix this entry,” and after a voice recording.
• Help and support have a new home — right here at pjjournal.com. The in-app Help link opens this guide, and support is support@pjjournal.com.

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. If you’re coming from Build 37, there’s nothing new to set up.

• Print or export an entry — open any entry and choose Print, Save as PDF, or Export. Handy for taking notes to an appointment or keeping a paper copy.
• Print or export a stretch of days — pick a week, a month, a year, or your own dates, or select just the entries you want (on Mac, ⌘- or ⇧-click), and print or export them together.
• PJ’s dragon, inside the app — the little dragon now greets you on the welcome screen, an empty journal, and the lock screen.
• A quicker Mac — when PJ is open on your Mac, new entries from your iPhone or Watch show up sooner.

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. If you’re coming from Build 35, Build 36’s changes (below) arrive at the same time.

• PJ fits the iPad now, held either way — turn the iPad sideways and the whole screen settles into the wider shape instead of staying pinned to a tall column. Your timeline, the writing area, and the status row all use the space, and bringing up the keyboard no longer crowds what you’re working on. Held upright, it looks just as it did.
• See where an entry came from — open an entry and it now tells you which of your devices it started on: From your Apple Watch, From your iPhone, From your iPad, or From your Mac. Handy when a quick thought you spoke into your Watch turns up later and you want to place it. It’s shown only to you, it’s set once when the entry is made, and older entries that came before this simply don’t show a label.
• PJ notices when your Watch loses contact — if you record on your Apple Watch while it’s out of range of your phone (off on a walk without it, Bluetooth dropped), the words wait safely on the Watch until the two are back together. PJ now shows a small card on your timeline — a recording is waiting to come over from your Watch — so a late arrival never looks like a lost one, and it clears itself the moment the handoff finishes. There’s also a Check my Watch in Settings to nudge it along. (This is the fix for the “stuck” Watch recordings a couple of you saw.)

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Quieter under the hood: the Mac tidies up its own backup-drive copies more carefully now.

• One-tap Copy (iPhone, iPad, and Mac) — open an entry and choose Copy to put its words on your clipboard, either plain or with the entry’s date on top. It copies only your words — never a photo, a place, or anything else from the entry.
• See an entry’s size at a glance — each entry’s row now shows how much is in it: a recording’s length (like 4:12), or, for something you typed, its word count. A long reflection reads differently from a quick note before you even open it.
• Start from a photo — now on the Mac — the Mac can begin an entry from a photo (or a few) you pick, the same way the iPhone does: a preview of exactly what will be saved, your choice of which picture, and the same private handling — a small copy, with the camera and location data stripped unless you choose to include the place.
• Text size on the Mac — a new Text size control in Settings (Small / Medium / Large). The writing and reading text is a more comfortable size by default now, and you can make it larger or smaller to suit your screen. (A few of you on larger Macs found it oversized — this is the fix.) It’s a per-Mac setting; iPhone and iPad already follow your system text-size.
• Your writing labels stay put — the categories you write with now sync more dependably across your devices. If one device still had the starter set while another had your real list, your real list is what’s kept and restored — a device can’t quietly overwrite your labels with the defaults.

iPhone, iPad, and Mac. There’s also a quieter fix under the hood: more dependable local backups on the Mac.

• A quick setup check — when PJ needs it, a short, friendly checklist helps make sure the things that let it work and sync are in place: signed in to iCloud, online for the first sync, and (if you’re on a Mac running the iPhone version) a pointer to the Mac version made for your computer. It never blocks you — there’s always a Start writing. Run it any time from Settings → Check my setup. If a new device is slow to get your journal, it will point you to iCloud Keychain if that’s the holdup.
• “Tell a friend about PJ” — if PJ has helped you, there’s a one-tap way to pass it on. In Settings, tap Tell a friend about PJ: it opens your normal share menu with a short invite and the link, and you choose who gets it and send it yourself. Nothing from your journal is ever included — it shares only the invite and the link.

iPhone, iPad, and Mac. (Build 33 was skipped — just a version-numbering step, nothing you’re missing.)

• The recording timer is fixed — a few of you saw the timer read 0:00 while you were actually recording, on the Lock Screen or on the recording screen itself. Your audio was always fine (it recorded and saved) — the clock just lied. It now counts your real elapsed time and can’t stick at 0 while recording. If a call or Siri interrupts you mid-recording, the timer pauses for the interruption and picks back up after, so it only ever shows the time actually captured.
• A photo on the row — an entry that kept a picture now shows a small thumbnail of it in your timeline and lists, so you can tell at a glance which entries have a photo. (If a picture is still syncing over from another device, you’ll see a small photo icon until it arrives.)
• Pin an entry to the top — swipe an entry, press and hold, or open it and tap Pin, and it moves into a Pinned group at the top of your journal. Unpin to send it back to its date. Pins sync across your devices, and it’s its own thing — editing an entry’s words or labels never changes whether it’s pinned.

iPhone, iPad, and Mac. If you can, give the timer a real workout: start a recording, lock your phone for a minute or two, and watch the Lock Screen timer climb — then try taking a call mid-recording and check that it pauses and resumes.

• Start from a photo (iPhone and iPad) — a second way to begin: pick any photo from your library, not only the moments Apple suggests. PJ reads the photo’s date and location, keeps a small private copy the same way, and opens a new entry. No photo-library permission needed — you hand it just the one picture.
• Choose your app icon (iPhone and iPad) — Settings → App icon. Keep the PJ dragon, or switch to a monogram, a pen nib, or a discreet look. Only the icon changes; your journal stays exactly the same.
• The right picture, every time — when a moment has several photos, PJ now lets you choose which one to keep, with a clear preview of exactly what will be saved.
• “From a moment” is easier to find — a shortcut now sits right on the main reading screen (next to Jump and On this day), not only in Labels.
• “Location kept” — if a photo or moment carries a location but no place name, the entry simply says “Location kept,” so nothing is stored that you can’t see.

“Start from a photo” is iPhone and iPad only for now; the Mac version is coming. As always, a picture only enters your journal if you choose to keep it, and it’s a downsized copy with camera and location data stripped out.

• Start from a moment (iPhone and iPad) — on the writing screen, tap Start from a moment and your phone offers a few recent moments: a photo, a walk, a place, something you listened to. Pick one and PJ opens a new entry already started with a line or two, ready for you to keep writing. Nothing is saved until you tap Save.
• You choose what comes in — three small switches on the save screen, each remembered: Date it (on), Include who & where (off), and Keep a small picture of the moment (off). Your call every time. (It’s your own encrypted journal — the place, the picture, and any names only come in when you choose them.)
• Keep a small picture of the moment — turn it on and PJ keeps a small, private copy of the photo in the entry, so you remember what it was about. A downsized copy with location and camera data stripped, synced to your devices, shown on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• The place and time, kept — with Include who & where on, the entry also notes where and when the moment was (a small place-and-date line; coordinates are never shown).
• “From a moment” — the entries you started this way are gathered together: at the top of your Labels on iPhone, and in the sidebar on Mac.
• Gentler starting labels — a fresh journal now starts with Gratitude, Reflection, Family, Work, Ideas, Good day, Hard day. Your own labels are untouched.
• The Mac locks when you close its window — closing the window (the red dot, or ⌘W) now raises the PIN screen, so reopening asks for your PIN, not only when you quit. (Only if you've set a PIN; a recording in progress keeps going.)
• Easier reading — the Mac Read view groups entries under a clear day header, the iPad layout is tidied up, and the app calls itself “PJ” throughout.

“Start from a moment” is iPhone and iPad only (it uses Apple's Journaling Suggestions), and the list it shows is your phone's own recent suggestions — not a photo browser, and not sorted by date. Nothing about a moment ever leaves your phone.

• iPad, done right — PJ works properly on iPad in any orientation, with a comfortable centered reading column on the big screen.
• Spell check on the Mac — as you type, misspelled words get a red underline; right-click to fix one, or Learn Spelling to teach it a name. It never changes your words on its own.
• Clearer Settings — Report a problem goes straight to support@pjjournal.com, and Import your history is now Import an old journal.
• Easier to help you — Share diagnostics opens with a short, plain-language summary. Still completely private, with none of your journal's words in it.

• PJ has a face now — a new dragon app icon, on your home screen, the Dock, and your wrist.
• Make a follow-up its own entry — if a follow-up turns out to be its own thought, open it and tap Make this its own entry (with Undo). The original, and anything that follows up on it, stay put. (Kim's idea.)
• Adding PJ on another device is clearer Mac — it opens straight to your journal, shows how many entries you have, and tells you once when everything has finished syncing in.
• A nudge to lock each device — if a device has no PIN, PJ offers to set one, so your journal stays hidden there too. (Your PIN is per-device; Private mode is the lock that travels and encrypts everywhere.)
• A recording safety net — a long recording checks in (Still recording?), stops on its own instead of running forever, and won't fill up your storage. Nothing captured is lost.
• Groundwork only: a new Allow Claude access switch in Settings — off by default and wired to nothing yet. It's the front door for a future, optional, private feature; ignore it for now.

Worth testing: add PJ on your Mac and watch it open to Read with the “synced” note and count; on a device with no PIN, try the “Set a PIN on this device too?” nudge; make a follow-up and detach it with “Make this its own entry”; leave a recording running and catch the “Still recording?” check-in.

• Bring your old journal in Mac for OneNote — import from a OneNote export, or a folder / .zip of dated notes, with a preview first and a one-tap undo.
• Deep navigation — jump straight to your oldest or newest entry, browse by year and month, and see On this day from past years.
• Nothing with audio is lost — a new Recordings still needing words list gathers anything that didn't transcribe, so you can listen and write it down again.
• Reading stays put — the day you're reading pins to the top, and PJ keeps your place as you move around.
• Delete one entry for good — remove a single entry from Recently Deleted without emptying the rest (Kim's idea).
• Steadier microphone — clearer guidance if Talk won't start, and it recovers instead of dead-ending.

Worth testing: import a batch of old entries and check the preview/undo; scroll far back and use Jump and On this day; try Delete Permanently on one entry in Recently Deleted.

• PJ identity — the indigo look, plus Light / Dark / System themes.
• Private mode — an optional passphrase over your whole journal, with a one-time recovery code to keep somewhere safe.

Worth testing: switch between Light / Dark / System; if you turn on Private mode, make sure every device is on the latest PJ first.

• New reading layout — a calmer, timeline-first way to read back.
• Finishes in the background — a recording writes itself down even if you leave the app; you'll see Writing this down…, then it fills in.

• Search your whole journal, and filter by label.
• Delete — entries move to Recently Deleted first, so nothing goes by accident.
• Follow-ups — add a new entry as a continuation of an earlier one, kept together.
• Steadier sync across your devices.

• Lock hardening — plus a quick re-check before sensitive actions like exporting.
• Share diagnostics — a content-free way to tell me what happened if something acts up.

• Safety net — the groundwork so no recording gets lost.
• Background recording — keep talking when the screen locks or you switch apps.

Write / Talk / Read, on-device transcription, end-to-end encryption, quiet iCloud sync across your own devices, Apple Watch capture, and the built-in Capture a thought quick-capture (Siri, widgets, Action Button, Back Tap, watch complication) — the core PJ is built on.