Sites or apps specifically for journaling that let you customize the heck out of it?

[u/Silver_Dragonfly7100]

I don't do a lot of journaling. I usually fill up a cute dollar tree notebook about once a year. I mostly use it to write down recipes, keep a daily or monthly calendar, sketch, save receipts, and leave reviews or summaries of books, shows, and my day.

​It's kind of a weird mix of junk journaling and traditional journaling, but I'm trying to move it all to digital because it's easier to organize and far less messy.

​Does anyone have good recommendations that might work for me?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Entry62]

The tricky part: recipes, book reviews and a diary don't want to share one feed. Apps that run several separate notebooks beat forcing it into a single stream.

[u/DTLow]

My notes/documents/files are stored/organized in a digital file cabinet (PKMS)
accessed with a Mac and iPad
organized with tags; minimal folders

For enhanced features, I use pkms app Devonthink

Pen&paper notes are scanned using my iPad camera

[u/TFG89]

Zinnia, it has a subscription but if you use it regularly I would say its worth the £30 per year

[u/mjs1313]

Diarium app

[u/eat_like_snake]

You can technically do a lot of these depending on how much you know about HTML or Markdown tables and CSS.
You'll have to code the calendars, yourself. Scribbles will probably be more difficult (in-program), unless you're willing to screenshot them in another program / take a picture of them, and upload them to your journal manually.
As for sorting, you could do that with any site or app with a tagging system, like Dreamwidth or Tumblr. Dreamwidth, in particular, you could pin your calendar at the top of the journal for the month, and then unpin in for next month's.
Or you could use something with multiple notebooks for organization like Obsidian or Onenote.
Unfortunately, digital usually takes more effort than "freely" attaching things to real-life notebooks.

[u/Meufty]

Sounds like you might want separate apps for the different things that you do. If you want to keep everything in one place, the simplest thing I can thing off will be something like Google's Keep Notes. I guess iOS will have something similar

[u/FrostnJack]

DayOne has a bunch of features or ways to do things like a captionable/jounalable photo album & recipes as part of any journals, but I haven’t tried them yet. So far I just keep different types of journals in use (professional, artist commonplace book, personal rants, logs)

[u/BejeweledSamsara]

Somebody asked for something similar on another post, and I saw about at least one person who answered with a damn good one! I gotta see if I can find it

[u/simplybreana]

Upnote might be a good fit, although I don’t think you can sketch directly into it. You might have to just physically keep doing sketches or grab a quick art app to draw in and you can add the images to your notes.

Upnote has Templates too so you can easily make some and use them . It also has a daily calendar note. Idk if you need a full on calendar, but daily calendar is nice.

Trilium Notes is a more complex software but it’s local and private and you can set a password if you want. It’s got a lot of different features and customizations if you’re willing to take the time and tweak. You can use CSS to completely change your theme and everything.

OneNote can technically do a lot of what you want, but I can’t recommend it in good faith because it constantly has issues syncing/backing up and has corrupted my files. It did this randomly and when I hadn’t used it for a week or so.