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.

— No spam

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] 1 points 1 year ago

If you do it everyday, I think you'll find many days will just be shorter. It seems to depend a lot on what's going on in my life. I've been doing it almost daily for over 20 years, but I've also been typing it all.

I have tried handwriting journaling, but I find it frustrating, especially at the wpm output I'm used to being able to do. Also my handwriting sucks. Or as one of my teachers used to call it - "chicken scratch" haha

The other thing is that once you have years of it, it's pretty neat to be able to search a name or keyword and be able to see your entries about it across years of history. I'm always astounded at just how fallible our memory is.