Journaling - 2006-11-13 11:34
Have you ever found that you want to keep a journal, some sort of record of your thoughts and ideas, a place to vent anger, frustration, or express your happiness or excitement? I do quite often and recently decided that I’ll start journaling again, beginning for the 1,081st time. So I got a new journal. I can’t journal in just any run of the mill journal. I have a specific book that I like to use for my journaling. So I waited for the beautiful 40% off coupon from Michael’s (every Sunday, you coupon clipping freaks), and headed over to pick up my shiny new black journal. There are no lines in it (as lines make a journal look childish), and if I tried to write without any lines, my pages would have scoliosis. So I printed a page with lines that sits behind the page I am writing on to guide my right-brained right hand (sadly, it took me 4 test pages to find the space between the lines that I liked).
I’ve also found that I have the desire to use some sort of online/computer tool to keep track of my journal. But I don’t want the world reading my journal (so I don’t want my blog to necessarily be my journal, although some journal entries will find their way onto my blog). I tried Jounler (which I wrote about before) which was really nice, except I have 2 computers that I use the same amount, so it isn’t convenient. Every time I have used a computer program as a journal, I get so excited, but later find that I will eventually stop using it for convenience sake (I don’t always have my computer with me). You don’t always have your journal with you either, you retort. Well, you may not have your journal with you, but I’m a dork, and I do.
The only ability I wish my hand-written journal had is the ability to link to a web page, or another section in my journal so that when I point to a word, it would flip the pages and take me to the section I was referring to. I guess I’ll have to wait a few years until the technology catches up with my desires. Off to journal…