I'm impressed with the uses and shortcuts people have developed. I learn something new every time I come here.
I guess it's a matter of personal style. The purpose-built journaling apps (Day One, Journal) never fit my style - for example, I don't want to be given questions to write about, I don't have the patience for it. And one note per day seems wasteful lol.
If I didn't already have a diary system I would adopt the forever journal and write a shortcut to append a day's entry to a single text file in iCloud. So, the best of both worlds. I do like the idea of linking from my journal to people, events and places, very useful. My current system is to add diary entries to a note that includes last month's entries as well as the current month's - I often look backwards that far. At the end of the month I use a shortcut that appends the last month to my big text file in the sky. This keeps the length of my current diary note manageable.