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The idea with this Weekly Thread is to encourage people to participate more by sharing a theme. See that as an invitation, nothing more and you’re more than welcome to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread while ignoring this one.

This week theme: Where do you journal?

Do you like to write your journal at home, comfortably installed on your desk or maybe on a couch or in the bed? Or do you journal everywhere you go? And how? Do you do it on your phone, or in your journal (that you carry everywhere you go?) or maybe in smaller notebook?

  • vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    9 hours ago

    At my desk, usually in the evening, with only my desk lamp lighting the room. That creates a really nice atmosphere for writing. And sometimes on the balcony, if the weather is nice.

  • the_abecedarian@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Mostly, I journal at home on my dining table. But, while I was on a trip recently, I felt the need to journal and of course didn’t have my trusty typewriter with me. Writing on my phone would have been easy, but I felt that, in doing it that way, I would have missed the physicality of doing it on paper.

    So I gladly accepted it as an excuse to go to the stationery store and browse the journal options. Given that I tend to like medium- or broad-nib pens – in fact, I’ve recently fallen in love with a stub nib fountain pen – I knew it’d have to be bigger than the pocket-sized options. For my Goldilocks combination of carrying size, size during use on a train or flight, fountain pen compatible paper, and minimalism, I ended up with a Mnemosyne 104. I’ve done one entry in it, but I plan to tear out the page and enter it into my springback binder, with all the looseleaf I usually use with my typewriter, so that it is integrated into my chronological order.

    I realized that I didn’t really care if people on public transit next to me were reading what I was writing.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    I journal on my desk and everywhere I go.

    My actual journal never leaves my desk (the old ones are lined up on a bookshelf not far away). So how do I journal on the go? I used to use my phone a lot, I had been using the DayOne app since it was first introduced (and I loved it) but I’ve switched back to analog full time and see little incentive for me to ever move back to digital as I want my privacy to be respected.

    So, to journal on the go, like I used to do through the late 80s up to the early 00s (at which time I got my first Palm PDA which lust be the piece of tech I’ve liked the most), I now carry a small pocket notebook in which I quickly jot down thoughts, events, anything I want to add in my journal later on. Quickly is they key elements here as I don’t want to waste my time writing two times the same stuff so, I quickly learned to devise my very own shorthand system to take notes real quick and, in the evening that day or sometime later during the week I would be able to transfer them down into my real journal in plain Engl… French ;)

    Without that shorthand system which is nothing complex (a few symbols, abbreviated words in a single letter and silly stuff like that), I’m not sure I would not use my pocket notebook as much as I do (which is all the time as I even use at home, when I’m not in front of my desk). It’s really quick and it really does save me a lot of time.