Plan your day and keep a private journal in one place, with calendar events, reminders, handwriting, widgets, Shortcuts, and iCloud
sync.
Parchment is a private daily journal that brings your writing, plans, calendar, and reminders together in one quiet place. It uses Apple's Reminders and the system calendar to bring your task and events together.
Open today and start writing immediately. Your calendar events and due or overdue reminders can appear above your journal entry, giving you the context of the day without switching apps. Capture notes, reflect on what happened, plan what comes next, or use Parchment as a simple daybook for work and life.
On iPad, Parchment also supports handwriting and drawing with Apple Pencil, so typed notes and handwritten thoughts can live together on the same day.
Parchment is built for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with iCloud sync available through your private iCloud account. There is no Parchment account to create, no advertising, and no third-party analytics SDKs.
Features include:
- Daily journal entries organized by date
- Calendar events shown alongside your writing
- Due and overdue reminders in your daily view
- Reminder completion from inside the app
- Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing on iPad
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Widgets for a quick look at your agenda
- Shortcuts, Siri, and App Intents support
- Spotlight indexing for finding past entries
- Export tools for keeping a copy of your writing
- Custom appearance, fonts, and themes
Parchment is for people who want a journal that understands the shape of their day. It gives you one place to write what happened, see what is coming up, and keep a private record over time.
It’s a Command Center integrating daily To-Do, time-sensitive Reminders, Calendar, and odd miscellaneous notes and ideas you track for the day. The killer feature is that it integrates into, AND IS, your native Reminder and Calendar. All in one place.👉🏻 There's ONE THING it’s missing to finally conquer this all-in-one-app concept: ❥ Ongoing non-deadline stuff you want to get to over the course of the upcoming week or month. Some kinda pop-up pad you can track ongoing “get to it later” important-but-non-urgent things that you need to remember to squeeze in but defy categorization into today’s checklist.
Simple and Pleasant
JakeCornette
I learned about this app from a newsletter from The Verge. I’m glad I gave it a try. It’s very simple and I love how it ties directly into Calendar and Reminders. It makes me actually want to write things down that I normally would not. I’m using it almost like a journal, which I’ve never had a desire to do. I expect to be using this for a long time.I would love to see it suggest Reminders and Calendar events based on what you write.This is a very pleasant app to use. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it to anyone.
This is the app Apple should have developed
billtrammel
It’s very simple, this app is simply how Apple Reminders and Calendar should have been integrated from the beginning. Except you also have the added benefit of the day’s note to keep track of everything. Extremely well thought out, no subscription. Just buy it, I use it every day now.
Work in progress
OkieXP
I love the concept and layout, but there are a few things presently that affect how I rate it. The 1st star lost is to the bugs (like Mac version doesn’t acknowledge Calendar and Reminder permissions being granted until you quit and open the app again.The 2nd star lost is to the limitations of the app and what I consider core functionality. There should be an ongoing (long term or without due dates) tasks section. The other is the ability to attach related files (pdf’s or any other type) or provide clickable links for convenient access. The last one is the app doesn’t have an ability to create a new calendar or a reminders list. You have to do that in the respective apps prior to utilizing it in Parchment. Overall, I see a lot of potential and believe this app will see improvement and hopefully the addition of mentioned features in the near future.
- Fixed: Critical Sync fixes
- Added: the ability to hide ended events from the agenda
- Added: Default alerts when creating events and tasks
- Change: Added a card view for adding information to a event or task
- Fixed: Sync would get confused
- Fixed: Issue where search index would crash the app in the background
- Fixed: Issue where the app would lock up when opening details page
- Fixed: Issue where dates aren't assigned to new events or tasks
- Fixed: Typing dates like Aug 1st or August 1st work with natural language input
- Fixed: Text Alignment for Small and Medium widget
- Fixed: System theme color option
- Fixed: Issue where Markdown wouldn't render if you had the option selected
- Fixed: Lock screen & control center shortcut
- Fixed: Daily Note Shortcut Action
- New Feature: Search notes, events, and reminder
- New feature: Syntax highlighting for creating events/tasks
- New feature: Added the ability to disable page turn animation.
- New feature: Added swipe gesture to move between days on iOS/iPadOS
- New feature: Rearrange all-day tasks/events by drag and drop
- Normal tap now opens the details view
- Link to reminders is in the detail view
- New feature: Added the ability to dismiss the keyboard on iOS
- New feature: New Shortcuts action to export any days journal entry as plain text.
- New feature: Ability to check permissions in settings.
- New feature: Localization for
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Korean
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Italian
- Arabic
- Feedback: System theme no longer shows color backgrounds.
- Feedback: Added show all and hide all for calendars and reminders lists
- Feedback: Export daily notes as a Text Bundle file.
- Feedback: Add the end time for events
- Feedback: Events that have passed will be slightly more grey.
- Feedback: Ability to set default reminder list/calendar list for event and task creation
- Feedback: If calendar/reminders list is turned off it will not suggest that in the creation field
- Feedback: Added setting to check and re-enable and check permissions for the app.
- Fixed issue: Increased widget refresh speed
- Fixed issue: with handwriting/drawings where they would get cut off.
- Fixed issue: related to calendar and reminder permissions on macOS
- Fixed issue: related to calendar and reminder permissions on macOS where all day events would add a time
- Fixed issue: where new event/task popup window would get cut off.
- Fixed issue: where overdue tasks would sometimes not show up on widget
- Fixed issue: the markdown rendering bug where it took several minutes to render
- Fixed issue:where Apple Pencil drawings wouldn't get erased
- Fixed issue: Increased the size of the details button
- Fixed issue: Where third party fonts would not display or crash the app
- Fixed issue: Overdue tasks are now labeled as such in the widgets
- Fixed issue: where not all journal entries would export
- Fixed issue: Apple Pencil stroke duplication bug
- Fixed issue: Increased sync speed
- Fixed issue: slow page turn animations
- Fixed issue: 24 hour clock support
- Fixed issue: when using profile installed fonts.
- Fixed issue: where Markdown headers wouldn't render when render option was on.
- Fixed issue: where nothing would display on widgets
- Fixed issue: where nothing would display on lock screen widget
- Fixed issue: sync setting page text wrapping
- Fixed issue: When text goes past the page fold on Mac the app doesn't scroll down automatically with it on Mac.
- Fixed issue: Clear icon wasn't properly clear
- Fixed issue: Ability to use third party fonts installed via profiles on iOS and iPadOS.
- Fixed issue: Changed the 'Today' text on the small widget to be the current date
Version 1.0.4
The developer, Chris Lawley, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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