Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Ask all your questions here. Are you more experienced? Feel free to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything related to keeping a journal is welcome in this weekly thread.
Why a WT?
We’ve a steadily growing community—we’re now 465 members! Welcome to all of you!—but we don’t have that much active members.
My idea is to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread ;)
This week theme: Is your journal analog or digital? Both? Or something else entirely?
Are you more of an analog or a digital user? Do you use both without any hesitation? Do you use a dedicated app like, say, DayOne, or a word processor, or a text editor, something like MS Word, LibreOffice or TextEdit?
Do you have an app you love to use? That helps you journaling?
Disclaimer: don't you dare question my amazing illustrator skills. This is a perfectly fine illustration for the weekly thread, one many pro news outlets would envy us :p
I use a typewriter (a Triumph Gabriele-e), blank looseleaf (a particular kind of heavier printer paper), and a springback binder to hold it all. Sometimes I use a fountain pen, but my writing isn't particularly beautiful.
By "journaling" I do it as a kind of braindump on an as-needed basis. Pure stream-of-consciousness without any pressure to make it coherent, organized, or eloquent. I don't do this every day, but I end up writing once per week-to-10-days.
I have a separate (paper) planner and digital info-repository, Joplin: https://joplinapp.org/
Nice one (I used to love my Olympia, probably more than any other writing tool I ever owned) :)
I was heavy into Filofaxes in the 80s and 90s. It was/is so practical! I still have one but it has dropped out of favor when I switched to the Zettelkasten note taking system as I don't need a binder anymore (it uses index cards) and I would not want to use something else nowadays.
Min is trash, that's fine I still can manage to read myself...most of the time.
That's great. Even more so if you have found a rhythm that is suiting you!