Recording Thoughts

Tag: Journaling

  • How Did You Digitize Your Journals?

    I’ve got about 35 volumes of journals I’ve kept over the years, and I’d like to digitize them. The problem is there are so many options out there it’s overwhelming at first glance. Mark Koester as a nice article, but it’s from 2019 and I suspect things are quite a bit different now. I’m not…

  • Morning pages – in the journal or separate book?

    I started doing morning pages a while back, and I been doing them in a these cheap kraft notebooks. I didn’t know how this would turn out, and doing the math I could see it would mean filling a few books a year. But now I’m thinking of moving them into my journal. Why? I’m…

  • Only girls keep diaries

    When I was a boy I didn’t keep a journal because back then I didn’t know what a journal was, I knew what a diary was. Diaries were kept by girls, not boys in my mind. I thought about starting one and calling it a log book. Later I learned that another term was journal,…

  • Don’t Make This Mistake – Pen And Paper On Choosing A House

    A few years ago we bought our new house in Kentucky. We looked at a lot of houses. It’s hard enough to find a new place in a region that is familiar, but in a new state it’s even more challenging. I kept bringing a notebook thinking the notes would be helpful in making a…

  • Tricks for keeping a journal that improves with age

    We all have moments when we just need to vent and poop all over the page. Fine, do it on a legal pad, fold the sheet and stick it in your journal. Look at it a month later and if you really think it’s got value leave it in there. Most of the time you’ll…

  • Tricks for keeping a journal that improves with age

    We all have moments when we just need to vent and poop all over the page. Fine, do it on a legal pad, fold the sheet and stick it in your journal. Look at it a month later and if you really think it’s got value leave it in there. Most of the time you’ll…