Journaling Just Works

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Our friends at !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online have launched their ‘Journaling January!’ challenge. Maybe worth it’s considering if you’re looking for a good excuse to start journaling?

Hello guys,

Journiv is in early beta and I have not been been able to install it, at least not yet as I asked the dev if they could help ignorant-me, but the app sure looks nice and it promises privacy (control of our journal) to its users, the lack of which being the main reason why I quit using Day One years ago, going back full time to analog journaling.

Hi guys,

Hobonichi users, how do you manage writing several pages a day?I know I'm super early, but I'm considering getting a Hobonichi to journal. I already have a A5 notebook that's almost full, but I don't really go back to it (because it's a chore knowing what day it was for specific entries, although I might just not display it enough), and I'd spend weeks not writing at all for some reason. I think having a journal where the dates are pre-written might help.The thing is, when I write entries, I tend to write several pages. Is there a way to "work around" this, or are Hobonichi just not for me?#journaling #hobonichi @journaling@sh.itjust.works

For those unfamiliar, the rubber duck method is more or less laying out a problem to something else (rubber duck, pet, whatever) to try to solve it. I've most often come across this as explicitly talking to the rubber duck, but apparently writing to them is also an approach?

Hello, I am keeping a journal in handwritten form for several years now. From the beginning I used acid free paper and archival ink so that the pages will be readable for a few decades. However I am thinking about keeping a digital backup of everything for several months now. Reason for that is that in case of a fire I'd loose all my memories. So it is important to me to keep this information in a separate place.

I've realized that I rarely look back at past entries. Journaling, for me, is a way of processing what I'm thinking about and feeling in the present, so I try to let it flow out of me with zero planning or rereading. I'm wondering if anyone here refers back to old entries when writing new ones, or even uses old entries to analyze trends over time. What do you do with the longer view?

I started a few years ago. Sometimes, I had a dream that I wanted to remember and so I started writing it down. I also drew sketches of the places I dreamed about.

It's not our Weekly Thread (I will post it in a couple days, like every week) but I just replied this in another thread and thought it might be worth sharing with you guys. I also invited the OP to join our community. Hopefully, they will. A short summary, to give you some context: the OP was worried that they can't keep on writing in their journal and asked for advice. What follows is my reply to the OP reply to my first comment. The whole thread can be read here.

From the feelings you have written about, to a cool little doodle you did. And if you do share, with whom and why?

I’m very happy to report that I have yet again updated the community sidebar with a link to a brand new community.

I updated the sidebar to add a new ‘Notebooks' community, a place to, I quote,

So much this (link to Reddit).

Post pictures, questions, anecdotes, suggestions, tips and tricks, your latest great find, anything related to journaling in this weekly thread.

I updated the sidebar with a new (new to me, at least) community called 'Web Revival' that wants to be "*A movement focused on capturing the creativity and openness of the early Internet.*"

The question doesn’t mean much if you're a digital journaler as you probably already have a synced copy available on your phone. But for the analog journalers out there this can mean mean the difference between having a journaling and having... lost our journal. Every single page of it.

I never kept a journal consistently because writing my thoughts felt like giving anyone access to them, and thus, I felt pressured to write like an eloquent Socratic philosopher just in case anyone DID read it.

This year, I wanted to start keeping a reading journal.

Edit Jan 4th: re-uploaded the banner with the correct version—yep, I'm that professional :p

Have you decided on a New Year resolution related to journaling? Maybe to start journaling? Or to journal more, or more regularly? Or you want to start sketching in your journal, or to decorate it in some other fashion? Something else?

I find I get some really quality introspection / observations around this time of year, and also just during holidays in general. Maybe it's just the time off, or maybe it's having an event to write around. I'm not sure.

Figured it might be a good discussion question. Crossposted to !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

I have not. Not a single line written since the 6, and I write this on the 16.

Just curious.

How to hold a pen (or pencil) properly and write without pain [8:41]

I added a limited selection of links to (what I consider) interesting Lemmy communities, in the sidebar.

Just in case you're wondering why I have a shiny *moderator* badge next to my name, I've been promoted.

I don't know about you but I like to sketch in my journal.

I have been journaling for almost 50 years and...

While we're waiting for reactions or comments regarding the future of the community, here is a nice prompt I just stumbled upon on the r/journaling.

You may have read my previous post, announcing I would be trying to revive this community by posting regularly in it?

This is a question I just read on the reddit journaling sub. If I quit commenting on reddit a few months ago, I still regularly read those subs I consider interesting and enriching, and I think this is an interesting question.