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
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 ;)
Smart idea.
Digital. Always. Especially because I can password lock those in a way I can’t with the notebooks I have on hand, I’d have to go out of my way to buy some special thing with a lock. While yes, my phone or laptop is very expensive but I already own it so no new purchase.
I’ve been using phone and laptop with markdown journals synced between them. I’d love to do analog journaling but my handwriting. I love being able to sync the files using syncthing from my Mac to android phone. Can go out and write at coffee shops or whatever. Some day may go to analog. I’m used to writing in markdown apps though. This way just works for me.
I have a Leuchtturm1917 for a bullet journal, but I have a hard time keeping it a daily habit. I use nb on my PCs, but that’s more for writing (recipes, etc.)
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/
Both!
I go through phases of preferring one over the other so I tend to print the digital entries (usually scrapped into arty spreads) and add them to a Filofax binder so everything is all in one cohesive volume.
In theory it means I can use whatever paper I have to hand but it turns out I’m a paper snob so I still have blank unwanted notebooks lying around that didn’t pass muster.
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