Seeking the ideal *Journal client...

[vakkotaur]

I have accounts on both LiveJournal and InsaneJournal and am beginning to even ponder Dreamwidth despite some limitations. Posting on more than one account (same name - they are, in essense, mirrors of each other) gets increasingly annoying as the number of mirrors goes up. Naturally, I would like to automate this and have "write once, post everywhere" but I have yet to see a client that will do that. I know some sites let you (auto-re-)post to ONE other site, but I don't want to be limited.

The ideal client lets me use all the features of LiveJournal (I have a Permanent account) and InsaneJournal (another Permanent) account) so that I set the title, the text, the groups (if any), the icon, the tags, mood, etc. And both IJ and LJ get posted to and the results look identical save for LJ and IJ branding. For Dreamwidth (if I go there at all) I'd want a nice way for it to fall back to the limited icon set I'd have there, since as I understand it I simply cannot get a Permanent account there and thus Be Done with things - that's why I have those - my personal convenience.) It should also allow me to edit once and fix any goofs without having to do it two or more times. Having a selection that lets me choose to only apply a change in some places would be nice, but not essential. Oh yeah, and it must run on Linux - without WINE - and not be a plug-in to some program I seldom use, so no Firefox plug-in nonsense. While I have a Google+ account, I really only use that to read - I don't care to post there until I can use my preferred identify without Google's kiddies throwing a tantrum and potentially wrecking my phone.[1] Also, the G+ API, like the G+ marketing department, is still in its infancy so I do not expect any current clients to properly support G+, nor do I really need one to.

So far, I have yet to see such a thing, but I could easily be overlooking something. Anything I ought to be looking at?

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[1] Google: "It's an identity service." Really, then why can't people use theirs? Idiots.

Comments

[catwoman69y2k.insanejournal.com (from livejournal.com)]

Im not sure what I want to do either. Insane Journal is something I have had for the last 2.5 years but it hasnt brought me the more community type experience I had when I was still on LJ. Dreamwidth seemed no better but I found myself getting an account during a time when a bunch of people were leaving LJ (again) for dreamwidth.

[kiwihunter8.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about switching over to Dreamwidth, but one question I can't seem to figure out the answer to, is can you filter all your LJ groups,friends, content to read over there? If not, I might as well stick with LJ til it dies. I don't want to be logging into two journal services to write and then read.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

That's another problem I have now. With tabbed browsing and easy speeddial links to both LJ &IJ it's simple enough, but I still find I seldom read the IJ friends list. Ideally there should be a client that reads all accounts - and filters duplicates (perhaps noting they exist and have other comments?) so that it presents a sort of meta-journal but unlike the various online services that have attempted that, it's a local client running on your machine and you control it, 100%.