Witness John Adams’s diaries or Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks.
Digital media has been around half a century or so.
Record audio and video, even publish to a blog account on Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Posterous, and Tumblr. Drag PDFs, QuickTime movies, images, audio, and more. MacJournal 6 even introduces a feature for creating books from journals specially formatted for publishing. A Timeline mode has been added to give the journalist the ability to see their writing activity in chronological order. MacJournal 6 adds a calendar mode that show entries from any journal, geolocation, word count, and progress tracking, as well as additional blogging support.
MacJournal is the world's most popular journalist software for the Mac.
MacJournal is now free on macOS but still paid on iPhone.