Thread: DreamJournal 2.6 - free program for recording dreams

Originally Posted by Mario92

Question here for Banhurt...will the "publishing" thing be affected? As in, will it stop taking you to forum threads and start linking you to the blog system?

It already does in the latest release, I didn't expect the Grandfathering Clause. I'll add the thread option back in 3.0 or now if you want.

Originally Posted by Banhurt

It already does in the latest release, I didn't expect the Grandfathering Clause. I'll add the thread option back in 3.0 or now if you want.

Really? It keeps publishing in the thread for me. Maybe I'm just special?

Are you sure you're using the latest version?

Well, I keep getting this message to update my net framework, even though I'm fairly certain I've already done that. So, maybe?

Update message says this:

Microsoft .NET Framework 4 is now required. It can be downloaded for free here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...5-b386f32c0992

I dunno. It works great for me the way it is.

Hey Banhurt!

I heard you were working on a new version of DJ...cool! I've been using it a lot lately and came up with a few suggestions; hopefully they haven't been said already.

1) Integrated window for the text box and the tag list. After minimizing the text box window and going back to it later, it is annoying to have to also bring back the tag window separately. Each window takes up little screen real estate so I don't think it should be a problem to combine them.
2) A way to view previously written dreams that is more reader-friendly. I'm thinking something along the lines of a PDF viewer; full screen, no text selection cursor, multiple dreams laid out one after another so I don't have to close each one to read the next (so it reads more like a book, in chronological order, or an order based on other criteria (like "favorites")).
3) A print feature. I'm getting my friends and coworkers into lucid dreaming and think it would be cool to print out some example dreams for them (or even for myself) in a nicely formatted manner (sort of how the DV post is coded and formatted, without having to copy and paste it into Word or whatever).

Hope this made sense. Again, fantastic program and I use it all the time!
Cheers...

Alright so basically I quit DV and lucid dreaming all together because I got frustrated with this program. Twice all my dreams have been erased. The file just disappears, and it's usually in my documents. It tells me to create a new journal, or open an existing one but my existing ones keep disappearing. What the hell am I doing wrong? Forgive me if this question has already been answered. It's also not in my recycling bin.

Wouldn't i be better to get a paper dream journal than to quite lucid dreaming all together?

Originally Posted by endymion

Hey Banhurt!

I heard you were working on a new version of DJ...cool! I've been using it a lot lately and came up with a few suggestions; hopefully they haven't been said already.

1) Integrated window for the text box and the tag list. After minimizing the text box window and going back to it later, it is annoying to have to also bring back the tag window separately. Each window takes up little screen real estate so I don't think it should be a problem to combine them.
2) A way to view previously written dreams that is more reader-friendly. I'm thinking something along the lines of a PDF viewer; full screen, no text selection cursor, multiple dreams laid out one after another so I don't have to close each one to read the next (so it reads more like a book, in chronological order, or an order based on other criteria (like "favorites")).
3) A print feature. I'm getting my friends and coworkers into lucid dreaming and think it would be cool to print out some example dreams for them (or even for myself) in a nicely formatted manner (sort of how the DV post is coded and formatted, without having to copy and paste it into Word or whatever).

Hope this made sense. Again, fantastic program and I use it all the time!
Cheers...

Thanks endymion, your feedback is always invaluable!

Originally Posted by hardc0re

Alright so basically I quit DV and lucid dreaming all together because I got frustrated with this program. Twice all my dreams have been erased. The file just disappears, and it's usually in my documents. It tells me to create a new journal, or open an existing one but my existing ones keep disappearing. What the hell am I doing wrong? Forgive me if this question has already been answered. It's also not in my recycling bin.

No idea, this has never happened to anyone else. The good news is that every day the program creates a backup copy of your journal, so you can restore it.

1. Run DreamJournal and choose Create a new journal
2. Save it somewhere
3. Go to Settings
4. Click Restore...
5. Choose the backup copy with the highest number of dreams
6. Click Restore
7. Click Yes

You wrote that you lost your journal twice. If the previous time wasn't longer than a month ago, you can still restore it. To do so, go to Settings and note down the Backup directory *. Click Restore... and try to find the date before you lost your journal the first time, it should be listed after a backup copy with 0 dreams. Note the date down * but don't restore it. Close the window and click Import.... Go to *, choose * and click OK.

Hope this helps and don't give up on lucid dreaming!

There is nothing when I press restore.
And the reason I don't want to keep a written journal is because my mom would read it.

Then what I'd do is either wait for Banhut's new download (don't know how long that will be though), do the written journal and keep it hidden (nothing wrong with that), or make a Word journal and back it up on a flash drive. Either way, this is nothing to quit Lucid Dreaming over.

Yeah, word/open office both have password protection mechanisms, and make a dandy plan B if banhurt's isn't working for ya.

Hey Banhurt, just wanted to say thanks for making such an awesome program. I've kept a journal going for a few months now, and I've saved some pretty awesome dreams. I don't know if this has been suggested, but I do have one request. It would be awesome if I could filter dreams that don't have a certain tag. Say I wanted to pick a dream at random to read out loud. It would save me a lot of trouble and embarrassment if I could quickly filter out everything tagged as NSFW.

The software has a password...

And yes, it's an excellent job!!! People should appreciate more all the hard work done for free.

I've been healing from a serious disease for the last several weeks and I didn't have enough time to work on the new version of DreamJournal and can't keep the promise with the release date (Septemeber 1). I'm sorry.

The good news is that since it's my birthday today, there's a cake icon available for your tags in the program (at least in the 2.5 / 2.6 version). I'm not quite sure if it's useful at all or if it compensates for the delayed release but you can't deny cakes are awesome

As long as you're feeling better.

And I used the cake icon! Is it there for good?

Hope you feel better, Banhurt. No problem with the release date, as long it's good
Happy birthday, but the cake is a lie
And tomorrow is mine birthday, almost same day, eh ?

Thanks, guys. The cake icon shows up only on August 25, though you can easily change the date in Windows. Happy birthday, Brunor2!

The cake is a lie...
Hope you feel beter

I'm assuming this isn't cross-platform, if it requires the .NET framework. Shame, since I'm running Gentoo Linux and I want to retrieve my old .dj file.

thanks for the new version!

Can't wait to see the new version! Let us know when its released!

Hi. Um every time I click 'Publish', it leads me to the new blog post page and everything is fine after that (paste, put title, post etc), but after that I can't seem to close the DreamJournal 2.5 window. Is there a bug? :O

Clicking "publish" generates a new window with the text on it. You have to go to your desktop, find the window, close that, then close the DJ program.

Ah I found the new window with the clipboard thingy. I couldn't find it at first. Anyway thanks!