InDesign or Illustrator for a diary?

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I've been using CorelDRAW 10 for a very long time (I think I've been using it for 10 years), and have created a lot of work on this, including a desktop diary.

However I now have a new computer and Adobe Creative Cloud, so now I have InDesign and Illustrator on my computer.

I could design my next new diary on Illustrator (makes sense if I can design one on CorelDRAW, then why not now on Illustrator), however I was wondering, now that I have InDesign: Which of them, Illustrator or InDesign would be more effect for making a diary?

I could use Illustrator and work in a similar way as I did with CorelDRAW therefore less stress in trying InDesign being different, or would I be better off using InDesign because of what it offers?

Many thanks.
 
InDesign is the industry standard for things such as that which have multiple pages. For example I make our company brochure in InDesign as you can very easily create multi page documents. In Illustrator you can make multiple artboards but they aren't set out as pages. You can create content in Illustrator and place it in ID and because it's all linked, any changes you make in Ill will be automatically updated in ID which makes it easier to keep things up to date.
 
InDesign is a layout tool.
Illustrator is a tool for creating vector graphics.
 
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Back in the days when Freehand 7 or 8 were still Macromedia,
I did not like to work with Page Makers. Like for so many in the
business then, the choices were either Quarks Express (which
we devoutly hated) and Freehand. Surprisingly, it was rather an
easy thing to do layouts with Freehand.

Don't even think of Illustrator for layouts… and Quarks never got
the right way to do things. Today's best tool is InDesign. The good
news though, Affinity (yes the same that did the direct competition
to PS) came out with Affinity Photo and Affinity Design (vector app),
and plan to bring Affinity Publisher (layout app) for MAC users only…
I suppose at the beginning!

I am already using Affinity Photo since I've thrown out PS and the
new Affinity Design since some time. I'm very anxious to put my
hands on Affinity Publisher as I desperately need it!

For dairy, even a simple word processor would do.
 
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