Some of you know I’ve been looking for an off-line replacement for 750words.com.  I don’t think such a thing exists, but I found something intriguing that isn’t anything like 750words.com, yet it is.

Chronories is a journaling program for Mac.  If you live on your computer like I do (much to hubby’s chagrin), it does some potentially helpful things.  For instance, Rescue Time has been tracking my computer usage and emailing me a weekly summary.  It has some handy tools (based upon how I set my parameters) that analyzed my computer time and productive or not productive.  Since Chronories logs my applications used and my websites visited, I deleted the Rescue Time account today and removed the app from my machine.  It was a duplication of effort.

Chronories has the built in ability to track weather, which should be kind of neat.  Although a bright yellow pie chart with all the sunshine we get here in Texas will probably be boring.

One other thing I used 750words.com for was tracking location.  Chronories has a Places entry for where I’ve been that day.  I can enter it any way I want, so if I want to use it for city location, I can do that.  I could also track my travels — house, shop, post office, groceries, and anything else like that if I so choose, which has some interesting possibilities.  I could have done that with 750words.com, too, but it would have been less elegant to display.

It, of course, has a diary entry area.  It, sadly, lacks a word count feature, which I mentioned in a review would be nice to have with an ability to toggle on or off (sometimes, you don’t want that number staring at you).  I almost didn’t buy t because of this, but I downloaded the 10 day trial from their website last night, and I decided maybe I’d like to do something a little different from 750words.

I like that my completed Things items show up in the iCal Appointments Chronology.  Of course, those are the items I’ve archived from Things into iCal before deleting them, but the display is interesting.

If I used iMail, it would capture email sent and received.  Since I primarily use Entourage (it has a couple of features I can’t find in iMail that I particularly value), this isn’t particularly useful for me.

There are a few other features that may or may not be useful.  I’d like to see the ability to configure the entries list — for instance to track weight and exercise and perhaps to have the option not to display some items.  I’d also like an automated syncing option.  There is a way to export and import that database, so I think that may be the only way to operate between my desktop and Air.  I don’t typically use them at the same time (but sometimes, I do), so I might be able to do that.

I decided to buy the program this morning, so we’ll see how it goes.  It isn’t cheap, so I hope I’m happy with it.  Well, okay, it’s not expensive either, but it’s more than ten dollars.