3 days at a time with vast amounts of time between, in a new notebook, app, or blog every time.
Ask HN: How Do You Journal?
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#32After reading lots of comments, I’m now feeling very unique myself. I leave apple notes because that cannot be synced to another windows or android devices. Also cannot be accessible from internet any time. Telegram fixed my problem with private channel feature. I’ve created couple of channels and set suitable name and icon on them then pinned them on my chat list. Also Created a chat group for my channels. Now I just pick the right channel and start typing, date and time are automatically added. Also notes under threads (messages under channels) can be edited any time. From my pc, android, iPhone elsewhere!! Also I can upload images videos or files, unlimited storage! One problem is, there are character limits without telegram premium. So, if the writing became long that will be uploaded in part. Also there are hashtag facilities! After discovering this unique technique I’ve stopped all tools and apps (except microsoftWORD)! But my pen pencils are all time beside me with my notebooks and diary….
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#33Single text file a year in n++. I Try to do it once a week and do end of month and end of year analysis. Usually I end up writing more and that's fine.
My requirements are local only and fast.
Start with the simplest tool you have available and go from there. If it becomes a habit and you have certain pain points then you can always switch. But trying to find the PerfectTool_TM before you're even journaling feels like putting the cart before the horse.
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#34Get a composition book for $2 from the drug store. The benefits of journaling come from doing it, not obsessing about the accoutrements.
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#35After reading lots of comments, I’m now feeling very unique myself. I leave apple notes because that cannot be synced to another windows or android devices. Also cannot be accessible from internet any time. Telegram fixed my problem with private channel feature. I’ve created couple of channels and set suitable name and icon on them then pinned them on my chat list. Also Created a chat group for my channels. Now I jus…
That's interesting. Can you export all of your entries after? Or search through it? I think the problem with creating something like this is that you are dependent on the platform, and if it goes away or if they delete it out of nowhere, you're shit out of luck. I would always want a way to export everything I wrote.
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#36After reading lots of comments, I’m now feeling very unique myself. I leave apple notes because that cannot be synced to another windows or android devices. Also cannot be accessible from internet any time. Telegram fixed my problem with private channel feature. I’ve created couple of channels and set suitable name and icon on them then pinned them on my chat list. Also Created a chat group for my channels. Now I jus…
That's interesting. Can you export all of your entries after? Or search through it? I think the problem with creating something like this is that you are dependent on the platform, and if it goes away or if they delete it out of nowhere, you're shit out of luck. I would always want a way to export everything I wrote.
Telegram has the "download my data" option which can give you all the data in your account. Alternatively, one can use Telegram client API to fetch just a channel and its entire content.
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#38I use Obsidian with a "daily-planning" template that has a bunch of typical journaling prompts. I customize it over time, adding new ideas and removing boring bits. Current sections are: - Things to remember - List of 10 important quotes/mantras - What's on my mind - How am I feeling productivity/mood wise today - What do I most want to accomplish? - What would make today horrible? - Gratitude - Something Mundane, so…
Do you fill out each every day? Sounds like a lot.
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#39When I journaled, the biggest thing was to reduce any barriers toward actually doing it daily, so I got a pocket sized notebook and made it mandatory that I carry it everywhere.
This allowed me to have a physical reminder on my person and to also be spontaneous with journaling throughout the day. I didn't have any form or template. I just wrote things. I didn't care about grammar, punctuation, or even legibility to some degree, and I ultimately found that this made things much more impactful.
I should probably start doing that again.
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#40Obsidian on my phone and laptop with Syncthing keeping things up to date. Also use the same platform to write posts for my personal site, using the git plugin to push and Github actions to spin up jekyll, build, and serve to my VPS. I'm just a tinkerer so it took me a while to arrive to this workflow but I find it quite smooth.