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    Anon buys a journal; uses 4chan instead.

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      Yeah, he’s journaling on 4chan, wtf is he doing

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    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

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      Missed opportunity to vlog this instead. I’d subscribe, share and comment. I’d ring the bell to get notifications. I’d join the nut squad.

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    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.

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    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.

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      Interesting!

      Could you elaborate on your record keeping efforts or share resources you’ve built off of?

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      good sirs, is thou engaging in buggery if thou makes record of thine notions?

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    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.

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    I tried keeping a journal once

    Then my parents found it, read it, and put me in therapy for a while

    I no longer keep journals

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      Locked folders on your phone work well in my experience. Sucks they forced you to do smth you didn’t want to do or weren’t ready for, I’m sorry

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    Dear diary,

    Today OP questioned if he was a faggot for wanting to write in a diary.

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    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.

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      I mean that’s a great day, you should write that down for posterity!

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      That, but add how you felt/feel about those things. Or what they made you think of. Etc.

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      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

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    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.

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      Encrypt your words at the time of writing if you’re smart enough.

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      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.

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        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.

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    I find they are good for keeping track of media I consume whether it’s movies, TV shows, or video games

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    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.

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    Man, you write one day in detail and then just write “see page one” on the other pages unless something interesting happened.