Why creating a LifeJournal Community instead of a WhatsApp group ?
WhatsApp at its root is a chat app, which means it is not ideally suited to organize and archive data.
You can circumvent these limitations to a certain extent by leveraging communities and sub-groups. But it is very basic, and data organization still suffers a lot, as data cannot really be ungrounded from its temporal thread structure.
Unlike WhatsApp, LifeJournal at its root is a note-taking app, that is ideally suited to organize and archive data. All social features are built on top of these solid data management foundations.
WhatsApp is a better solution than LifeJournal Community when you want to create a community that is focused on "now", where content is fleeting.
LifeJournal Community is a better solution than WhatsApp when you want to create a community that is focused on "data".