another helpful site for keeping a journal: http://www.inboxjournal.com. i like that the site sends email reminders where you can post entries, and that it has a clean interface.
Great Men Keep Journals
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#22I used to journal for years and stopped. Then I messed with OhLife (a YC startup) and kept going with it. I'm not connected with them other than being a user, but if you're online anyway, it's a pretty handy tool to keep a journal. http://ohlife.com/ It's also a good example of a clean design and user experience.
Thanks for the link. Just signed up.
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#23I just wrote myself a little script. Let's see, if it sticks ... $ cat bin/journal #!/bin/bash FILE=${HOME}/Dropbox/journal.txt echo >>${FILE} date >>${FILE} echo >>${FILE} vim + ${FILE}
I've been using this zsh function for a year or two: jr () { echo "---" echo "\n##"`date +" %a %D %l:%M%P"` >> ~/journal.txt cat >> ~/journal.txt } It usually emits 72 dashes, so that I can stay within that margin (manually, heh). Edited to not break HN. The '##' is because I habitually markdown format everything.
That seems kind of unsafe to me, since it's all keeping it in one file.
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#24I just wrote myself a little script. Let's see, if it sticks ... $ cat bin/journal #!/bin/bash FILE=${HOME}/Dropbox/journal.txt echo >>${FILE} date >>${FILE} echo >>${FILE} vim + ${FILE}
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#25I just wrote myself a little script. Let's see, if it sticks ... $ cat bin/journal #!/bin/bash FILE=${HOME}/Dropbox/journal.txt echo >>${FILE} date >>${FILE} echo >>${FILE} vim + ${FILE}
I've been using this zsh function for a year or two: jr () { echo "---" echo "\n##"`date +" %a %D %l:%M%P"` >> ~/journal.txt cat >> ~/journal.txt } It usually emits 72 dashes, so that I can stay within that margin (manually, heh). Edited to not break HN. The '##' is because I habitually markdown format everything.
Mine is similar. My journal file is the hidden file ~/.journal and my script is in my home bin directory. It sets up a cat from STDIN, so I can just jot a few things down and ^D. I wanted something that would be as easy to use and non-intrusive as possible. And I used the %% on a line by themselves as the divider, as I also do in my Quotes_Aphorisms file, so scripts for searching and manipulating the fortune databases will also work on them.
#!/bin/bash
echo "%%" >> ~/.journal
date +"%a %Y-%m-%d :: %X" >> ~/.journal
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#26I kept a journal on a couple of backpacking trips. I ended up spending over an hour a night on it and would have kept going if it weren't for exhaustion. Eventually I couldn't bring myself to start an entry because I couldn't face the commitment.
Usually my days aren't as interested and filled with introspection as when I'm backpacking, though. I just signed up with http://ohlife.com/ as mentioned by dabent.
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#27I used to keep a journal and found it very therapeutic writing my innermost thoughts and then as I got older I'd laugh at the things that stressed me out when I was younger. Then my mum found it one day and started reading it and that put an end to it... I've tried doing it online but it's just not the same as writing it in a beautifully bound journal and flicking through the pages.
There is definitely some fear about that, there are times when I have actually cut out a page that had info I didn't want to be available any longer.
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#28I used to journal for years and stopped. Then I messed with OhLife (a YC startup) and kept going with it. I'm not connected with them other than being a user, but if you're online anyway, it's a pretty handy tool to keep a journal. http://ohlife.com/ It's also a good example of a clean design and user experience.
Interesting. Somewhat off-topic but what on earth is their business model? Journals are private. There are no advertisements. The service is free.
YCombinator hopes to make money from this how?
Don't get me wrong: it's a simple and clever idea. Just... it's not philanthropy, is it?
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#29I used to journal for years and stopped. Then I messed with OhLife (a YC startup) and kept going with it. I'm not connected with them other than being a user, but if you're online anyway, it's a pretty handy tool to keep a journal. http://ohlife.com/ It's also a good example of a clean design and user experience.
Phenomenal, simple idea. I, too, signed up.
I can still dig up random LiveJournal entries that I wrote on a whim ten years ago. What would people here rate the chances of me being able to do the same with OhLife entries in ten years?
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#30I think before I could keep a handwritten journal again, I'd have to learn either shorthand or drawing. Besides resisting the temptation to self-pity, of course.
Might actually a good idea for some neat new skills this years. Sadly last time I looked there were too many shorthand systems (and the default German one looked rather complicated), and I've yet to find a drawing book that makes me seem less clumsy ("Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" was recommended here before, but didn't do anything for me).