For me, so much if journaling was visual. I would draw pictures in the margins etc. This was back in 2000-2003. Now that in look back, those drawings are as important to me as the words that accompany them. Is there a way to do something similar with the journal programs you've seen?
Preface: I'm a terrible artist, this probably colours my approach to visual art in journals (i.e. I don't tend to do it). If I were a decent artist and drawing stuff each day, I'd be tempted either to keep a separate paper journal for sketching, or maybe to do sketches in something with removable/tear-out and scan them at the end of each day. If I just liked a more visual form of writing things down, I'd probably end up with something similar to the bullet journal link above. I do have a big (probably too big, really) Moleskine softcover book for when I'm jotting down ideas that can't be summed up accurately in plain text, but things tend to get lost in there quickly. I guess I just really like the ability to search for every entry I've written where I've mentioned flaming goats and have them all appear in less than a second, is all.
I've been fortunate in that I write a TON of music/songs. I can listen to old tracks and it's just as powerful as reading my old journal entries. Just last night I found an old tune, maybe from 5 years ago, and listened to it. It immediately took me back to where I was when I wrote it, both physically and mentally. This morning I was looking through old youtube videos and found this song that I wrote about a bulimic girl I knew that was also a devout born-again christian. -Sort of like reading a journal entry about her. But I've yet to write a song about "flaming goats," maybe it's time I do!I guess I just really like the ability to search for every entry I've written where I've mentioned flaming goats and have them all appear in less than a second, is all.
I don't have that desire, mostly because I never write about flaming goats, but also because of the serendipity of manually searching through my journals. Its fun and always leads me to discover something I've forgotten about. It is a time-suck though. I'll end up spending hours nostalgically looking through old journals in search of "that one poem I wrote one night after the bar..."
Which is fine and even desirable for writing/creative endeavours! Suggests that it might be a good idea to have different systems for this vs. what insomniasexx describes (i.e. task management/project tracking) vs. "journalling" i.e. writing down thoughts on stuff or reactions to events. I realise this is probably a subconscious result of a QDB entry I read some time ago, that's stuck with me.I don't have that desire, mostly because I never write about flaming goats, but also because of the serendipity of manually searching through my journals. Its fun and always leads me to discover something I've forgotten about. It is a time-suck though. I'll end up spending hours nostalgically looking through old journals in search of "that one poem I wrote one night after the bar..."
But I've yet to write a song about "flaming goats," maybe it's time I do!
-Funny.The internet is a beautiful place....
"Because no matter what kind of twisted freak you are, you've got a friend out there :D
You could ask the internet "Find people who have sex with goats on fire."
And internet will ask you, "What kind of goats?"