Do I need a meditation journal app or can I use a regular journal?

Regular journals work but lack meditation-specific features like automatic session context capture (time, duration, technique), seamless timer-to-journal flow, voice notes during practice, and pattern recognition over time. Meditation journal apps capture data automatically that would be tedious to record manually, making pattern recognition possible. However, if you already journal daily in an app you love (like Day One), adding meditation notes to your existing practice can work well.