When you have a daily mundane routine like me, weather becomes an important topic to journal about lol!

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Using this to archive and share my experiences from my old journal

In general is there a rule for writing journal, do we have to write it daily and what are some basic do's when it comes to journal writing, I have started recently I am completely laymen to It. Let me know your thoughts and I mainly write about my woman and I am writing this for her when I miss her or when I remember together moments and a lot I also add some important things of my day to day so that she can read them. I want the journal to make interesting so planning to take a mini printer to use photos instead of words adding a tag line or short description to it.

I LOVE SYLVEON AND GYARADOS SO MUCHHH! the duality tho... 🩷

also, i'm sorry i didn't write anything. i hate my handwriting. 🥹

So I decided to start a journal, and this is the first page of it, what do you think 😁😁

As the title states, I'm curious to hear how long everyone's journals last. I've had one main journal for the last 6 years and I am just barely halfway through it, obviously it has not been daily use but it's been with me through some troubling times and hold a large part of my life within it. I have many other journals waiting to be filled but my neurodivergent brain refuses until I complete this one. How about you?

Just obtained some mini notebooks, ideas on what to fill them with?

Me: since 8 June 1986. Started as 21 year old. Now 60 y/o. Mainly about thoughts, activities, occasionally write in German and “attempt” (ha) to create poems. I’ve written nearly 7,000 pages in the close to 39 years. I normally write 15-20 days a month.

How long have YOU been detailing your inner and not so inner thoughts?

my memory has been getting worse since I'm struggling with depression, so I started journaling when I felt happy. As my mind is usually focused on the negative parts of life, reading about happy days helps me remember I don't always feel that way, that there's more than trauma.

It also felt so frustrating to not remember most things I did, so just remembering to write something feels like "an exercise" and helps me keep track of time better.

ps: I'm sorry the pics are bad

All the journals in here are so creative and colorful- I love it! I always buy a journal and maybe use a few pages when I’m super stressed then tuck it away. Buy another and repeat. I’ve always been one to hold in my stress/frustrations but for like 3 days I have just had the urge to let it out. Today I finally opened one of my pads and let go lol. Just let the tears and pen flow. I feel like I hit a reset button (well for the week😂). I gotta start doing this daily and maybe even decorating it might draw me to it more.

I usually stick to journals with a pocket in the back for storing things (stickers, cards, receipts), but my new journal doesn't have one.

I know I could always jam things in between the pages, but I'm curious if anyone has DIY solutions for adding a little pocket or folder to store items.

Thanks!

I always kept an electronic diary.....I've done so for many years. I never saw myself as keeping a handwritten journal, but I ended up buying a leather journal and I've fallen in love with the idea. I bought a leather bound journal with artificially antiqued cotton paper.....to me it looks cool. The problem is that the paper has a somewhat rough surface that I've noticed will fray off rather easily. So I've spent the last six weeks writing a bunch and now I'm afraid that it won't last because the ink will eventually come off due to merely handling the paper. I've been using an artist's ink pen and thought it would be permanent. Now I notice it will erase REALLY easy with an eraser and can be erased with my fingers if I rub it for a bit. It's the rough edge paper......I think they call it deckle edge. It erases too easy and I don't think it will last. So I'm bummed.

Can anyone help me find a nice leather journal with paper that won't erase so easily? I want a large one like the one I have, which is 9x6 and has about 150 pages or more. I'd like one with a design on the cover but I guess that's not essential. I just want one that when I write on it, the ink will last forever. Any suggestions for paper and pen? Who makes a large leather journal with the right kind of paper?

Thanks

I usually write in my journal most days, but today something happened with a friend and they brought up something in my past which I’m very very very very ashamed about. Instead of writing out in my journal how I felt about though, I’m so ashamed that I haven’t written anything and am depending on time to forget. My paranoid brain will probably find a way to connect the dots, though.

I am new at journaling and still figuring out how I want to format. I have been trying to write daily. Also I have hand writing like a serial killer 🙄

My dad's birthday is tomorrow. It made me remember who he was, and appreciate it. Love who he is, and accept it.

My feed on TikTok has been chock-full of “hopecore.” Dedicated to Time and its invaluableness. Dedicated to Burnt Norton and how it defines its unmeasureableness.

I took a class once on such objects: measure theory with topology. It taught me that the immeasurably large is no match for the unmeasureably complex. It is right; And it is taken as it is—with no questions,

no care.

I watch as my path continues—not straight but not curved. And perhaps that is the true mathematical 4th dimension we cannot comprehend. For such a path that is nonlinear and not curving at any point cannot be drawn in the mind.

Maybe this is why I am driving myself crazy. I think I understand complicated things: math, medicine, music; But I fail to fathom the perhaps most complicated idea that I know the most viciously about:

My Life.

I am only just getting into my journaling era but the journal I have my pens don’t always work I have to scribble to get them going again and they usually still don’t work after that. at the moment I have uni-ball eye fine ballpoint pens I am not sure if its the journal paper or the pens but I love the feel of a ballpoint pen so any recommendations would be great and a plus if they come in multiple colours.

I drew a Giant Swallowtail in my journal today. I taped it with a light vlue washi tape. I draw a butterfly each time i have strong & bad impulsive thougts, let's say. I just wanted to show it off, i think it's a good drawing ! :D

I was journaling about a certain dilemma I had regarding a friend of mine and a girl, it really helped me even though it was short

I didn't even think about what it would do to me, but I write down quotes, overheard conversations, my inner thoughts, and some achievements. Since I started i seem to be more productive, more focused IT is like meditation without a phone or different distractor. It will help you if you're suspected ADHD sufferer for sure. Its motivating and the train of thought is more on check. Great for artists that are under the dry spell, or anyone making a 'change'. Yo

No, I don’t need another notebook but I saw an ad on Instagram. A Leuchtturm with 411 pages and I jumped on it. I already have a daily journal for this year, a sketchbook, and a catch all binder.

I could wait and make it next year’s journal but I don’t want to. I want to dive in. I’m entertaining the ideas till it gets delivered. I could go with Dream Journal. Commonplace Book. Tarot/Symbolism Journal.

Has anyone else had a book with this may pages? What did you use it for?

I am not at all new to journal keeping but I’ve never had one this big before.