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* Keep your everyday ideas, plans, events, trips, encounters, and more  — you can even keep multiple diary entries in a single day

* Protect your privacy with password authentication and data encryption with Blowfish and MD5 algorithms

* The calendar-like interface enables you to easily navigate through, organize, preview, and edit your diaries

* Search key words and locate your journals conveniently

* Export your diaries to the built-in Mail app, send multiple diaries from a range of dates, and share your journals with your friends and family

* Choose your favorite fonts and text sizes for the editing view

* Support landscape editing mode

* Mark dates with different colors

When you run the iDiary for the first time on your iPhone or iPod Touch, you will be prompted to set up a password. Please keep the password safe because you will need it when logging into the application later.

On the Monthly Calendar view, a green dot above a date indicates that you have saved journals for that day. Click on the date, a preview of your diary will appear on the bottom of the screen. Double click the date to highlight with different colors. Press the ‘+’ button, you’ll add a new entry and enter the Editing view. You can also easily navigate to the previous and next months, go to a specific date, or return to ‘today’.  Use the search view to browse all your journals in a list.

If the encrypted journal was altered without authorization, or the database is damaged, iDiary will display the following message: “Corrupted data!”.

via iDiary – iPhone App.

Enter iDiary, a marginally useful application for the iPhone and iPod touch. I stress “marginally” because it’s difficult to imagine anyone using this app to maintain lengthy and intimate accounts of their daily lives. The world’s fastest typist on an iPhone touchscreen would still be slower than a person writing longhand. What iDiary is, then, is a notepad with password protection.

If that’s what you need, iDiary does the job well. When you run iDiary for the first time, you are prompted to enter a password. Don’t lose it. iDiary employs Blowfish and MD5 encryption. Try to alter the diary without authorization, and iDiary will display a terrifying message: “Corrupted data.”

iDiary functions as a day planner. The calendar-interface is easy to navigate. In monthly view, a blue underline appears below each date with a diary entry. Touch the date and a preview of the entry appears below the calendar at the bottom of the screen. Double-tap the date or touch the “Edit Diary Entry” button, and a yellow notepad pops up. Then simply type in your entry and click save. Easy.

Take Note: The interface for an iDiary entry looks a lot like the iPhone’s built-in Notes app.

The only way to export an entry is through the device’s built-in Mail function. The product developer helpfully notes that the e-mail function lets users “share your journals with your friends and family.” But aren’t there more convenient ways of doing the same thing that don’t require a password-protected app?

via Review: iDiary for iPhone | iPhone Central | Macworld.