A private record-keeping tool that includes text formatting options, advanced search feature, and an integrated publishing tool that allows export to HTML, plain text, Word formats. HTML export is Web-oriented, having a lot of options and flexibility. Diary entries can be updated, deleted, merged, marked as landmark events, locked from publishing and even bookmarked. Bookmarks can also be published in HTML format for easy access to entries of interest. A set of tools is included that allows for applying global changes to diary characteristics, like modifying text properties and font, global text replace, file merge, spell check, thesaurus, and more.