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The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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I built an app for micro journaling but then mostly stopped maintaining it because I was very afraid of the danger of other people hacking into it, especially if it became mainstream and high-value state targets used it. For those of you who keep journals, how much do you worry someone will gain access to it?

Have you considered a more simple setup such as a local text file that is encrypted? Of course, there is always a risk but reducing the attack surface can help.

Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #12

Few days ago I found a very interesting, short blog about journaling (I've just posted it seperately [0]). It's very interesting for me as it combines themes of journaling per se and self-dialogue. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32237190

Thank you for that insightful find which deserves more discussion comments.

Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #4

I started journaling 4 years ago. I have not missed one day in 4 years (except for a couple of days after a mild bicycle accident where I was sleeping in bed). I built myself a system that sends me an email every day, and the replies get stored in an sqlite db. The system accepts answers up to five days after the date (meaning, if the replies is sent more than five days after the initial email was sent, it's not file…

i can support that. also journaling for the same reason. when i miss a day sometimes i can reconstruct it by examining the messages i sent for that day, but if it is more than a few days past, unless it was some special day, the memory is gone.

Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does re-reading previous entries add value?

Reading old journals used to be tedious and embarrassing. It was frustrating to see how many times I had profound, "life changing" realizations, only to discover I've had the same realization over and over again in the years preceding - seemingly never retaining the lessons and ideas. One thing that helped was building in space for dialogue with myself. Now, I only write original journal entries on the left side of a…

I've experienced the same repetitive realizations/ideas. I have kept 3 different files going back 10+ years: did.md which contains notes/thoughts about any interesting events by date, ideas.md which contains business/project ideas, and resolutions-yyyy.md. Whenever I revisit them, I'm always struck by the same thoughts/ideas that come up over and over again. The ideas.md file is the one that cracks me up the most--I have repeating project ideas with the same/similar set of features that occur every few years.

Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #19

I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.

I think you can begin to answer that question by thinking of journaling/introspection as a treatment and the negative thoughts as a symptom.

There can be a few cases:

- If you apply the journaling treatment prophylactically, does it prevent those negative thoughts? - If you do not apply the journaling treatment prophylactically, what is the likelihood of having negative thoughts?

In my case, the thoughts came without journaling so I can confidently state introspection did not cause me to think I'm not special and worse than I thought.

Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #19

I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.

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Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #19

I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.

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Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #19

I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.

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Re: The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection

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post #19

I often wonder if too much introspection via therapy or yourself is a bad thing. When you are young you are filled with ideas and drive and confidence. After introspection you realize you aren't special, you aren't as good as you think you are and most people are indifferent to you or often dont really like you.

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