Does anyone keep a journal?

[5cm/s]

i used to keep a bullet journal that i drew in, pasted photos into, etc. (your typical tumblr bujo spread w/ calligraphy and all that), but i realized that i spent a heck ton of time just making my journal pretty and not actually doing the stuff i wrote down in it??? so now i have a new bullet journal that is just straight-up lists of bullet points.

it's still nice and neat looking (i got a nice white journal from muji with dot-gridded pages), and is a lot more helpful to me

so i would say- yes yes absolutely start a journal if you want to, but don't let making the journal pretty get in the way of it actually being of use to you

 

[hamster]

i have a lot (and diaries) maybe ill sell them all and become rich

 

[Mr. Cat]

I try to. It lasts a few weeks of me doing really well and then I'll have one busy weekend and totally forget about it because I don't get time to sit by myself.

I use just a regular small planner with dates and different colored fine point uni-ball pens, nothing special.

 

[rollerC]

I do keep a journal, but I don't keep to it. I only write if I feel like writing about something that happened that day, or if I want to remember how I felt during a certain day or if I just want to let my feelings out. I get really personal in my journals. If anyone ever read it I'd never show my face around them again.

 

[Lady Timpani]

I've always wanted to be the type of person who writes in journals, but I usually just wind up starting one and then never writing in it again. My friend got me a really cute Wonder Woman journal for my birthday, but it's just been sitting in my drawer while I agonize over what to do with it lmao.

I think a lot of it boils down to me not thinking my life is interesting enough to write out, but I'd probably feel better about certain things if I wrote them down. My old journals also used to have short stories that I'd put in them, but my computer's much better for that.

I do keep a journal, but I don't keep to it. I only write if I feel like writing about something that happened that day, or if I want to remember how I felt during a certain day or if I just want to let my feelings out. I get really personal in my journals. If anyone ever read it I'd never show my face around them again.

This is probably the way I should approach it, really.

 

[N e s s]

I keep a journal but I rarely write it lol. I mostly just write things that have happened to me recently as well as anything thats on my mind in the current moment. Been thinking of writing more stuff in it because I feel bad to watch it just sit in my drawer, it's a nice leather bonded one I got for christmas

 

[Zane]

I started to for awhile sometime last year (I think) but I haven't written in it in months, idk I'm lazy and also do pretty uninteresting stuff most of the time. The first thing I documented was my 2 day long migraine if that tells you anything lool I just had to write that down because it was so horrible I suppose. I always mean to start a dream journal cuz sometimes my dreams are funny or have cool concepts I could use in the future but I never get around to that either. ;/

 

[Croconaw]

I currently do not. The only thing close, is that I want to start an advice blog. People told me I?m good at giving advice, so I planned on starting an advice blog.

 

[Elephantmarshmallow]

I have a journal that I vent in every once in a while, I don?t use it very often anymore because at college it felt like my roommates were looming over me all the time and I had very little privacy (every time I would do something at my desk my roommate would immediately ask what I was doing, it got old really quick)

 

[ArtsyDreamer]

I’ve never been good at keeping a daily journal ?\_(ツ)_/? The closest thing I have to a journal nowadays is the Notes app on my iPad- when I feel like it, I’ll ramble on about random happenings in my life, weird dreams I’ve had, and fangirling

 

[Midoriya]

Yes, I keep a journal. The journal in my head.

(I have very good memorization skills)

 

[Zireael]

I don't but sometimes I feel like I should, just to get my thoughts on paper. It's not something I've considered seriously enough to actually do it though, and whether or not I'd stick to it as a routine is another question.

 

[dimicrow]

I want to someday, but when I look through old sketchbooks I notice that they tend to double as art and journaling, lmao. If I write things down I usually draw or doodle, so I guess this works instead of covering my works in fan art.

 

[pinkcotton]

Well, after eating my feelings, I write about them. Helps to let it all out sometimes! And I also write about my experiences that I had that day, only if they're worth remembering.