Mountain Climbing Journal 2.4.9

The Mountain Climbing Journal (MCJ) is a free standalone journal application released under the GPL that runs on Windows (98-Vista), MacOS X, or GNU/Linux (SUSE, Red Hat, and others) systems. The MCJ does not require a web server to manage the entries. Journal entries can be private or they can easily be published using the content management (CMS) features as a complete website.

The MCJ categorizes journal entries by using keywords based on a user chosen list of categories, as well as by person, place, thing, and time. The keywords are generated by simply highlighting the keyword and clicking the appropriate icon. Navigation of the resulting collection of keywords and articles is quick and easy, with the keywords showing up in red in the journal entry box when chosen. MCJ uses icons for the main journal window that are not specific to a particular language.

MCJ provides a means to publish journal entries and other content to the World Wide Web with a content management system (CMS). Unlike most CMSs, MCJ does not require a server-side scripting language. The website is generated as HTML and one RSS XML file. Many of the decisions about how the website will look are already decided. There is, though, quite a bit of variation.

MCJ stores all data in a SQLite database. Although there is a cost in performance, all changes are immediately committed and the database is closed to prevent corruption.