I bought a sprocket inkless printer so I can “scrapbook”…maybe I’ll find journalling easier through the use of photos
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I used to journal quite a lot but stopped recently. Its mainly just a space for me to vent rather than anything constructive
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I recently bought a journal but have yet to start it…
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I’ve read that keeping a journal for voices is helpful so that u can discover patterns etc.
I used to write every now and then, but now I’m going to try keeping track of my voices.
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I have been keeping a recovery journal for decades. It helps me track when I am up and down.
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I have a diary. I try to write weekly, but sometimes I skip several weeks. No photos, only text by hand. Old school.
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I cancelled the photo printer. I’ll treat myself but not yet. Maybe if I’m consistent with journalling.
yep, i was keeping up to date with it but not recently, I’ve been missing days here & there, i like to do a time line of my day, its nice to look back on that timeline then refer to the notes, on bad days the timeline is empty, i had a bad time in July and i had just written brief notes here and there. its called a daily planner but i usually fill it in at the end of the day.
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I usually have around a 100 phone notes.
It’s reminders.
It’s also useful notes about how to think
Or what to believe
It gives me confidence
I have a diary where I transfer useful notes.
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I like to journal, it’s a habit i picked up in the hospital when they gave me a composition book and a bendy pen. I like to record how my day is going or how it went. I don’t write in it every day but at least a couple times a week.
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Not anymore.
I journaled in junior high and my mom read it and punished me for what I wrote
Tried again as an adult but the men who follow me were reading it and talking about me. Showing up everywhere I went, and judged me for what I wrote.
I even encrypted it and they still read it and followed me . They hacked all my devices and put cameras in my home.
No more journaling for me. I need my privacy
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No, but I think it would help if I could control myself, and correlate the patterns to something useful.
I am sure there is a art-form to writing journals, so you can make the entry funny or imaginative/entertaining to your future self. The Hell if I want to go back and read an entry on a bad day and think: Wow that really was a horrible day, pity me.
No I would rather take it in with light humor and make it fun to read. I would rather laugh at myself crying in the past, and make up for it in the present.
I used to write down notes all the time. But I would end up deleting most of them and eventually condensing 100s of notes into just about 20 or so. Out of that old 20, almost none presently exist.
Those notes were not doing me any good. Using the notes as references instead of as working ideas of my mind, makes a lot more sense. I can only have so many useful ideas in a day, but numerous references which could be helpful later on.
A lot of the past notes were just plain crazy, or based on emotional responses I was having at that time. And some were me trying to understand the evil/malicious people in this world, and why these things happened.
I stopped making those type of notes, around the same time I gave up on changing my life’s course by force/strife, or trying to ask others for help (which was their cue to shove me into a brick wall). I got out of the loop of hoping for an escape from the malice around me, or to change/heal from the disease.
Another thing that changed is I am no longer worried about losing an idea or thought process to an idea, or not remembering/writing it down. If I have a decent idea and it escapes me, then no big loss.
I have found through a note taking method called zettlelkasten, which means note box or slip box in German. However instead of organizing my ideas, I would rather use it to edit and cancel out my ideas, as it feels satisfying to draw a line through a bad idea I’ve had or rewrite an idea to elaborate on it for clarity. I use a computer program for printing physical copies and keeping a digital draft to edit easier.
Even then, I did not keep most of my ideas, but their quality drastically improved, which I think is the point with it. People cannot come up a larger number of good ideas per day, but they can come up with lower amounts of bad ideas per day.
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I did when I was a kid…. But my family kept getting in there and reading it… so i stopped
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