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5 free journal apps to harness your thoughts in 2018.

Keep track of your thoughts, and maybe tackle a New Years’ resolution, with these 5 free journal apps. They’ve made it so, so easy to track your daily highs (and lows), even add photos and video like a virtual baby book, which is smart for your bigger kids...

Bonjournal travel journal | Cool free app of the week

by Christina Refford | Best Apps

Whether your travels this year take you halfway across the world, to your favorite beachside resort a few hours away, or to the campground you’ve been visiting since the kids were toddlers, I’ve found an easy, beautiful, and free app for iOS that will help...

It’s a selfie world, and we’re just living in it

by Liz Gumbinner | Photography

Okay all ye mothers who felt guilty about not getting those baby books filled with photos representing every little milestone: You are no longer alone! Because now, you don’t even have to have kids to feel the pressure of owning a photo album completed with...

Tinybeans app: A smart, simple, free baby book app to keep you from annoying everyone on Facebook

by Nicole Blades | Best Apps

If you have a baby, you’ve probably said it’s all going by so fast 20 times just this week alone–and then felt guilty at least four times for forgetting to record all those sweet moments in a baby book somewhere. We get it! We look for the best apps...

Ecojot Connect app: Write notes the old-fashioned way, and save them the modern way.

by Kate Etue | Best Apps

Even with all the great lifestyle and organizational apps available to us today, there are times that nothing really replaces writing with pen and paper, whether I’m writing down funny things my kids have said or just making my grocery list. But having digital...

Lifecake: A new baby app for parents that, unlike any other aspect of parenting, does the work for you.

by Jeana | Best Apps

I’m a little embarrassed to admit that it took me about 9 months to print out pictures of my third baby and put them up around the house. When I think back to how diligent I was with baby #1 and (a little less diligent with) baby #2, I have vowed to be more...

Heyday app: An automatic digital journal that does the remembering for you

by Jeana | Best Apps

As a full-time working mom of three, I can barely remember what I had for lunch today, let alone things my kids did three days ago, which is why I am so glad to have discovered the Heyday app. It’s become my automatic rememberer (is that a word?) and journaling...

A baby journal book that glows as your child grows

by Kristin | Babies

I’m not a scrapbooker, journaler, or preserver of much beyond Instagram and Facebook, but I love the new Highlights of Your Life baby journal book created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Sara Gillingham. In my own baby books, my children look like they stopped...

Cool newborn app Baby Bundle does everything for new parents but change diapers.

by Julie | Babies, Best Apps

I always love seeing new tech that really benefits parents, and super smart newborn apps are one of those awesome advances I wish had been around 12 years ago when I was getting ready to welcome my first baby. Just out yesterday, the Baby Bundle app is the latest...

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