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Using The Gift Journal on Mac

The Mac app uses the same journal but presents it as a desktop workspace for deeper organisation, search, review and output. Version 1.1 refines navigation, detail views and adaptive layouts, and adds Save from Safari / Browser Saves.

The Mac app uses the same journal but presents it as a desktop workspace for deeper organisation, search and output.

Main Mac destinations

The sidebar includes:

  • Today
  • Occasions
  • People
  • Journal
  • Wishlist — including My Wishlist and Received Gifts
  • Settings

Create or import

Use the title-bar Create/import control for actions such as:

  • New Person / manual creation where available;
  • New Occasion…;
  • New Wishlist Item…;
  • Import from Contacts…;
  • other supported capture/import actions.

Detail-first navigation and explicit editing

  1. Choose a destination in the sidebar.
  2. Select the row/card you want.
  3. Use the detail pane and Edit action.
  4. Save changes explicitly.

Version 1.1 standardises the detail-first contract: selecting or clicking a saved record opens its view, while editing remains an explicit action. Detail transitions stay within the active content column as the window adapts; protected content still requires authentication.

Version 1.4 also hardens desktop editing consistency: Person, Occasion and related editable cards use aligned double-click/right-click routes, and Practical Details keep the same Person → Practical Details → Edit detail hierarchy as iPhone/iPad. The disclosure row for Previous values uses a larger full-row hit target.

Search, filter and sort

Journal and other desktop collections provide persistent search/filter/sort tools appropriate to the collection. Use them to narrow by Person, type, date, status, title, source, price or Occasion where the view offers those fields.

Multi-selection

Mac supports selecting multiple visible records in applicable collection views. Output actions can target the selected rows rather than forcing the entire journal into one report.

Quick Look photos

Where a record has an accessible photo, use Quick Look Photo to inspect it without entering a full edit flow. Protected items must remain behind their protection boundary.

Drag and drop / browser research

Mac is the deeper browser-research surface. Use the supported browser/import flows and drag/drop capture where available to bring useful product information into the journal, then review the resulting Gift Idea rather than treating capture as an automatic purchase record.

Save from Safari / Browser Saves — Version 1.1

Confirm the page you are viewing in Safari and keep browsing while the capture waits in a durable Browser Saves inbox. The app does not need to auto-launch for the capture to wait safely.

Browser Saves sync privately across supported devices, so a capture can be reviewed on Mac, iPhone or iPad and then saved to a Person or My Wishlist. See the Save from Safari help chapter →

  1. Open Settings or use an applicable selected-row output action.
  2. Choose Print…, Export PDF… or Export CSV….
  3. Choose the manifest/report scope you need.
  4. If you selected rows in a supported list, choose selected output when appropriate.
  5. Complete the native save/print flow.

Print/PDF uses a dedicated printable layout rather than screenshots of the app. CSV is intentionally plain and suited to spreadsheet tools.

Protected records are excluded from ordinary report/export disclosure unless an explicitly supported authenticated inclusion flow says otherwise.

Mac backup and Portable Journal Export

Mac provides both recovery backup and Portable Journal Export. They are different tools. See iCloud, backup, restore and Portable Journal Export.