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Journaling
Dan Grover | Mar 21 2006
Here's my thinking When I'm developing software, and there's some glitch, what I'll sometimes do is go back into the source where I suspect there might be a problem, and try to figure it out. When in regular life, though, I'm thinking what I should do is start keeping a journal. Then when I ask myself "What was I thinking!?" I can go and find out exactly. Then remind myself "Oh yeah, don't think that." Also sometimes I vent online when I shouldn't. And in some cases it may be seen by people I might not, and sometimes it's googlable and everything. So I downloaded a journal program for the Mac that looked pretty spiffy. But then I realized why I make my to-do lists by hand -- there are certain things that just look stupid typed. And if I kept it in a digital format, there's always that risk of anyone who finds it reproducing it quite easily. I went and ordered a Moleskine ruled large notbook thing, 'cause they seemed nice (and the descriptions of reminded me a little bit, for some reason, of the journal Winston purchases in 1984). I can't wait to get it -- I ordered it with cheapo Media Mail shipping which takes forever. I figure what I should do is set aside a small amount of time every day, probably before bed, to write in it. I could put down thoughts, ideas, reflections, etc, and probably start to develop some conventions for doing so to make it easy to go back and see (e.g. the 'meta data' notebook hacks on here). Does anyone here journal? Is it a useful activity? Any journaling hacks? 41 Comments
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 I've been thinking a lot...Submitted by Bookworm on June 2, 2006 - 9:40am.
I've been thinking a lot about journaling and blogging lately. I do a lot of blogging and not much journaling. Primarily that is because I'm on the computer all the time. I'll have to make the time to sit at my desk with a pen in my hand if that kind of journaling is important to me. I find that a lot of the "what I did" stuff ends up in email or IM with family and friends and it's bugged me for a while that I don't get around to recording that in any other way. I have two crazy someday/maybe ideas: (1) Create a timeline of my life with a section for each year. Where was I living, who were my closest friends, what did I like to do, what was I reading and writing and studying. (2) Attempt to "catch" up with journaling small entries in my 10+ journal for the past five years or so. Maybe not everything, but things like major get-togethers with family/friends, concerts, etc. I also sometimes think about why I journal, who the journals are for, whether I would want anyone to read them. I have a child now, which puts a different spin on things. I think that I primarily journal for myself, so if I want to remember different times in my life, I've captured something of that time. Re: Pilot pens -- Am currently using the Pilot V Razor Point extra fine in purple ink at work -- very smooth writing pen » POSTED IN:
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