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How and Why I Journal

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Re: How and Why I Journal

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Post by dailywriterguy »

well, maybe you found the antidote to society's ills. Journaling.

Writing stuff down helps me remember the good times and that the bad times don't last. It shows growth, from the way I write to the way I think. And it's humbling to see my ideas strewn about a piece of paper and realize, they're not as good as I think they are.

So, maybe the tech overlords "hate this one trick". ha.

I do wonder if more people started journaling if the world would become a better place. not a scientist, so I don't know how you'd even prove that. but, anecdotally, journaling is just as effective as therapy for me.

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nomilk wrote: post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

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Post by kruffalon »

I object to the notion that this person is keeping a family journal with their memories.

Unless they all share in writing and choosing images, it is a personal journal about a family from one members perspective.

Other members of the family would have experienced the recorded events differently and would have chosen different things to record.

(Written as a person that often thinks that different things are interesting and noteworthy.)

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nomilk wrote: post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

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Post by em-bee »

signorovitch wrote: post #20

Responding to the actual content of the post… :P Starting a long term commitment like journaling isn’t that hard. Just write something. There are a million apps and special notebooks to make it as easy as possible. I often hear people say staring is easy, maintaining is hard. Maintaining is also easy. Journaling doesn’t get harder with time. We often just underestimate how little your future self will care or value t…

jup, it's just habits. my journal is a plain text file in vim. no special apps, no reminders, and no rules on what to write. i write what seems significant. what i want to remember. stuff that i may want to look up later. since last year that includes what i spend money on, since a few days it's a todo list of things i want to do today. i track work hours, or even if nothing happened. that matters, because a missing entry more likely means that i forgot to write, not that there was nothing write about.

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Post by iefbr14 »

nomilk wrote: post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

Same way I got here

Re: How and Why I Journal

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Post by genshii »

nomilk wrote: post #12

Not sure why, but when I clicked on 'A HN post with negative points – how?' from the HN home page it led to the post we're currently on ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104663 ), but I think it should have led here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48106316 A bug!?

Not a bug, the post 'A HN post with negative points – how?' is a link to this post.

But yeah it's a bit confusing for one HN post to take you to another HN post.

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