Journaling

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Hello! First time in the doing anything like this, so please bear with me! There isn’t a place for people to post or talk about their journaling, which can be very helpful to others. So I decided to make one … even though I’ve never done anything remotely close to this. ———————————————————————— Welcome

This is a community for all journal related things prompts, questions, showing off, really anything relating to journaling. Always on the move, show off your everyday carry journal set up. Don’t write down paragraphs upon paragraphs of words, no worries! No matter how you journal or how you decide to keep your journal this community is for anyone who wants to share or just excited to see others set ups. ———————————————————————— Rules

— No hateful conduct

Due to the nature of journaling posts can be very personal. Anyone who is found to be overly negative or discriminatory towards another member within this community will receive repercussions relative to the situation. Have basic etiquette, this community is based on positivity and that will remain my goal throughout.

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Spam will be considered as posting the same content more than three times. ———————————————————————— Note

As this is my first time creating a community please let me know if there are any rules I should implement. I am completely open to feedback and criticism as long as it’s for the best interest of the community.

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How to cope with not having enough time to hand write journaling? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/journaling

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Hey,

I am a big proponent of writing in a journal - I think it really helps me unload the scrambled mess in my brain. The thing is though, writing in my journal takes 1-2 hours of my time - not to mention the time it takes to get into the mood to write for 1-2 hours a day. How do you guys write daily / regularly? When I'm on vacation it's super helpful to write in there, and I wish I could do that during the week. Typing is a solution, but I feel like I write with less efficacy since I don't have a lot of time between sentences. My sentences while writing are a lot more well formed, I think.

What do you guys do?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I can't dedicate that sort of time in a shot generally, certainly not with the extra time to get into the right headspace. I tend to aim for paragraph-size thoughts, expounding as and when necessary.

I actively work to avoid typing, because I genuinely enjoy fountain pens and because Lord knows I type more than enough in my day job. I end up with very different outcome styles typing vs. hand writing, the former tends to be more business-ready, the latter tends to be much more true to the actual feelings/thoughts I'm trying to capture.

One of my most frequent use cases for journaling is to keep running logs of interactions with various organizations, in a mostly chronological way that I can later follow. Currently juggling a number of insurance companies, doctors, and a bunch of other related stuff and I'd be completely lost if I didn't have a way to easily see whom I spoke to about what, when, and what documentation I sent where. That part is tailor-made for handwriting, from where I sit, if I try to type contemporaneous notes they invariably end up being closer to a transcript than to useful bullet points.

There is no right or wrong way to do this, only what works for you.