hmmm...
i have two of the above.
1) Yes- I don't write too much/rarely write
2) I have some other form of keeping track of things (blog)
i write in the blog more than in the journal.
i have three tamagotchis:
a v1
a v3
& a v4
out of all of them, i think i prefer the v4. however, when i first got my v3, there were a lot of new features in comparison to the v1. and the v4 has completly new features.