To keep a teenage style journal?

[SexyBoris]

When I was a teen I loved keeping a journal - just writing down the events and none events of every single day … then I’d read the full thing back on New Year’s Eve. I found it motivating. I have ADHD so can be quite “lazy” in that I could literally spend weeks doing nothing at all but because of my journal I made the effort just so I had something to write about.

I’ve not done it for years (since I was a teen, and I’m 40 now!) but I’ve been getting the urge to start it again.
It seems so childish though! Does anyone else write in one?

YABU - grow up
YANBU - it’s not a bad idea!

I journal. I have a computer based journal that is restricted to my computer only. I never wanted a blog. I've been writing it for the past ten years and I find it therapeutic and a way of keeping track of things. It has many sections for different things but the main section is a bog standar journal (and I can import pix which is wonderful).

I have years' worth of detailed paper journals which kind of worries me because I'm not sure I want that level of honesty being seen by anyone but me, and one day I'll die or get carted off to the old peoples' prison. I keep thinking I ought to shred those.

My own journal has serious encryption and not even the program makers have a record of the password - their help pages are full of folk who changed their password when pissed and can't remember it - the makers can't help at all.

I like journalling and don't think it's necessarily a teenager's thing - think of Samuel Pepys!!

I have all the signs of ADHD and I’m similar- notebooks spur me to do things so I can put them in the notebook.. I also feel like a teenager doing it, sometimes!

Mines a mix of a journal/ tracker / brain-dump. I like to re-write lists to figure things out in my head, do big mind-maps.. its my brain laid out in a book.

I’ve stopped caring that it’s “weird” at this point. If it gets me to do stuff, it can’t be a bad thing! I’m approaching 40 too.

@FlipFlops4Me

I journal. I have a computer based journal that is restricted to my computer only. I never wanted a blog. I've been writing it for the past ten years and I find it therapeutic and a way of keeping track of things. It has many sections for different things but the main section is a bog standar journal (and I can import pix which is wonderful).

I have years' worth of detailed paper journals which kind of worries me because I'm not sure I want that level of honesty being seen by anyone but me, and one day I'll die or get carted off to the old peoples' prison. I keep thinking I ought to shred those.

My own journal has serious encryption and not even the program makers have a record of the password - their help pages are full of folk who changed their password when pissed and can't remember it - the makers can't help at all.

I like journalling and don't think it's necessarily a teenager's thing - think of Samuel Pepys!!

That sounds ideal! Can I ask where I can find the program you use? I wouldn’t want mine read by anyone either

I have a 5 year journal - one book with space for a paragraph per year. I started keeping it last year and now when I add a paragraph I can see what we were doing this time last year. All very mundane things (entertaining a 6mth old in lockdown) but nice to look back on and see how far she/we have come. Sometimes I have way more thoughts than a paragraph but I like not having the pressure to write lots every day and only having to take a few minutes out of my day means I have actually stuck to it.

Its here www.splinterware.com/products/idailydiary.html

You can have the paid or free version - they both work well as a journal but you get more bells and whistles with the paid version. Remember - never, ever forget your password or you are honestly stuffed.

Well, I thought you were referring to recording your outfits every day (Or your DD's!)
There's nothing teenaged about journalling though, as pp have said. It's therapeutic, when you're writing it and when you re-read it. Imagine reading it in 50 years time, when the world will have gone through currently-unimaginable change? You'll look back and what seems mundane or prosaic now will have become obsolete or impossible due to changes, and it will be something to treasure

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Well, I thought you were referring to recording your outfits every day (Or your DD's!) There's nothing teenaged about journalling though, as pp have said. It's therapeutic, when you're writing it and when you re-read it. Imagine reading it in 50 years time, when the world will have gone through currently-unimaginable change? You'll look back and what seems mundane or prosaic now will have become obsolete or impossible due to changes, and it will be something to treasure

No point in me documenting my outfits - I reckon “jeans and jumper” would get boring after a few months 😂

But yeah that’s what I’m thinking, as times go on things change and you don’t always see it whilst it’s happening so I find it fascinating to read back on. Wish I’d kept my teenage ones where I was convinced I’d be a famous rockstar.