want to eat cookies
buy pack of cookies
open pack of cookies
there’s just cookies inside
what am I supposed to do? bite on them? that’s something that little kids do
Anon buys a journal; uses 4chan instead.
Yeah, he’s journaling on 4chan, wtf is he doing
Start a dream journal. Write down your dreams the second you wake up. It’s a big step to lucid dreaming.
Tbf, I’m not sure what I would want to put in a journal either.
Had a wank, ate breakfast, played Horizon Forbidden West, watched LOTR, had tea, went to bed.
I mean that’s a great day, you should write that down for posterity!
Do that, but write down how long you game. My grandpa did that with smoking.
Saved every penny he would have used for smokes. Financed a car for the money after some years
Catalogue your nut. How long it took to nut, the amount, the consistency, etc.
Dude
You just fucking write anything. Literally anything. Over time you’ll develop a style that works. Just start with something.
I find they are good for keeping track of media I consume whether it’s movies, TV shows, or video games
Dear diary,
Today OP questioned if he was a faggot for wanting to write in a diary.
Journaling is a great way to monitor and think on the results of your actions and improve over time. I’ve seen that, I’ve done it, I know it works. Yet I still can’t bring myself to suffer through the act of writing down my thoughts. I don’t like to belabor what is already done, I’d rather call good enough good enough and move to the next problem.
That said, I do establish systems to record efforts and results, they just aren’t handwritten. Tables can be quickly searched and summarized.
I use mine to freewrite. Just mental dump everything and anything that comes into my mind for three pages. It’s cathartic and often comes up with nuggets of useful information I didn’t know I was burying.
Can you give an example by just doing a journal entry here so I can get a feel for it.
Here’s an article for writers that I found helpful for my journaling. I don’t do it creatively, I just write what comes to my mind about life and the day ahead and the day finished.
Oh hell no! Because it’s stream of conscious it’s very, very personal 😂
But whatcha gotta do is set a fixed goal (time or pages - I recommend pages) and then write down everything that comes to mind without judgement or fear. Sometimes, when I’m having a dark day, the first page is just me complaining and moaning. But for three pages? It’s hard for the brain to get stuck in that rut for so long so it starts exploring solutions, options, or simply other things.
Give it a go! Don’t stop writing for three pages, don’t worry about quality, reader, or anything! Just write whatever comes into your brain. Like meditation it takes practice but is well worth the results (imo).
In all seriousness, yes.
For me, my most valuable journaling has been stream-of-conscious thoughts as they come in. Good. Bad. Whatever. It all gets written down. This ain’t archival biography writing. In fact, it’s super liberating to throw out old journals sometimes. They’re all just thoughts.
Journaling has been the single most valuable tool in my mental health journey. It’s baffling how bad a day can be when I haven’t had my morning brain dump.
My friend had a hard time journaling until I told him to format it like greentext. I meant what are greentexts but stylized journal entries? Just write greentexts about your day. Your emotional state. Shit that pissed you off. Notable things that made you happy.
You can look back in 6 months and see what your life was like compared to now.
“Damn, can’t believe I used to go on 4chan.”
Bullet journal. Leave a few pages blank at the start for an ongoing index. Then use it for writing whatever you feel like and adjust the index as you go.
It’ll end up being a mishmash of grocery lists, shower thoughts, reminders, sketches, goals, bad poetry, and evidence for tax fraud, and you’ll still be able to find what you need when you need it.Plus, in 300 years, your journal will be used in an anthropology class to educate future generations on the modern way of life!
Alas, an actual paper journal is dead to me.
Too insecure, too accessible. If it ain’t encrypted, nothing personal would ever go in it.
Create your own cypher.
I seriously doubt you have any sort of critical information on your hands but…
Cyphered journals have been a things for centuries. If nothing else, it’s a hobbie you can develop.
I used to, but they’re pretty easy to crack if they’re easy enough to be kept in your head (well, my head lol).
And ya never know when laws might change, or some bitter ex decides to steal shit, or whatever. Critical in terms of dangerous in general, obviously not, but sensitive, yes.
If it’s so damning that you’re that worried about it you might need a psychiatrist and not a journal.
Considering the way the US has been lately, nobody should be keeping any kind of personal information available where state or federal governments can access it. People have been fucking arrested for having a miscarriage. They’ve been arrested for having an abortion based on Facebook information.
All it takes is the wrong law being passed, and we can all be fucked.
Also, there’s absolutely no reason for you to be an asshole about it. If you can’t partake in a conversation without that kind of behavior, it may be that you really would benefit from some therapy.
That’s why you don’t write down your plans to shoot the president, you write what you had for dinner and what happened at work
If you write this sort of thing down you’re a cartoon supervillain
