Cross posted from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/49943344

It's aliiiiive! 🎃 This Halloween release of Fern is zooming ya way. Brings a bunch of changes, mostly involving bug fixes and improvements to the Suggestions Box for Tags/Notes.

I started planner journalling with the Bullet Journal method but fell off using it because there was so much wasted space with how my life is planned/organised. My days just aren't that busy and most weeks there's at most about 5 recurring events or tasks per day (most are just 1-2 entries)

Nowadays I've been using a digital calendar which is great for yearly and monthly planning but only OK for weekly and almost useless for day to day, especially for tasks and especially because I have worsening memory impairment and need the repetition of writing out a daily log.

So I want to still have weekly spreads that I can refer to when doing the morning journalling, setting out my tasks for the day but I don't want to have to turn on my PC (phone screen is too small for me) every morning to refer to the calendar. Enter the weekly spread.

But I also don't like how a spread can leave a lot of white space. I just want my weekly spread to start off where the Sunday daily log ended (starting my weeks on Mondays) assuming there's enough room for at least one whole week day (I don't mind a little left over white space).

So essentially the week spread becomes inline with the daily logs. I've looked around the net but just finding mostly AI slop and nothing that's inline or minimalist :/

Would love some suggestions, thanks! :)

I want to start Journaling but i am struggling where to start. It would help if i have some self-reflective questions that i can ask myself at the end of or/and at the begging of the day

Here some of my ideas

• What are your To-Do Lists for the day?
• Any significant dreams?
• Had any astounding revelations?
• How do you feel?

I was wondering if there is a link between journaling and having a vivid imagination. One of the qualities of being a good writer, for example, is being able to imagine things.

I would consider myself a daydreamer. I also like writing (altough not fantasy stuff). What about you?

Hi to all subscribers of this community,

I just wanted to see how everyone is doing. I've not been active on Lemmy in recent times, as I have cut social media out of my life for the most part. However, this is one of the few communities that I still visit from time to time, as I think this is a great community (even though it isn't very active).

My creative drive has been killed of by the heatwave last week, as it was 30C in my apartment. It felt like my brain was just in survival mode as I was unable to do any creative things this last week (like writing, drawing or even just thinking about life as I usually do).

Today is the first day that I really feel like writing again, as it has cooled down.

How about you? Was it hot were you live and did you do any journaling last week?

The French daily newspaper 'Le Figaro' (celebrating its 200th birthday this year) published yesterday its literary supplement 'Le Figaro Littéraire'. Its front page is dedicated to the (dying) art of the diary: 'Journal intime, les derniers feux' says the French original title, which I would translate as “Diary: a Fading Art” but literally translates as “Personal diary, the last embers”.

Beside the front page, the supplement only dedicates two pages to the topic, and only talks about published/famous writers keeping a diary, not saying a word about mere people keeping a diary but that’s ok.

The screenshot is probably unreadable but I thought you might be enjoying having a look at that double page to see what it was like inside:

BTW, if you read French, I consider Pierre Bergounioux’s and Julien Green's diaries remarkable (they are two of the names mentioned in those two pages).

(and, yep, I'm one of those people who do read print newspapers daily, not their online version. I read one in the morning and another one, from another political side, in the evening)

OCTOBER
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Politics can never be the subject of poetry (Goethe).

Add Tolstoy quote to the Absurd as a model of illogical logic:
"If all the earthly goods for which we live, if all the joys that make up life, the riches, the fame, honor, power, are wrenched away by death, then these goods have no meaning. If life is not infinite, it's quite simply absurd, it's not worth living, and we must clear it away as quickly as possible by means of suicide." (Confessions.)

   But, later on, Tolstoy corrects himself: "The existence of death forces us either to give up on life voluntarily or to transform our life in such a way as to give it a meaning death can't wrench away from it."

Our friends at !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online have launched their 'Journaling January!' challenge. Maybe worth it's considering if you're looking for a good excuse to start journaling?

Hello guys,

As you may have noticed, we've been invited to join the #FediWriMo Journaling January Event. I thought this could be of interest to quite a few of us around here ;)

So, let us know if you decide to join, or if not maybe why (I, for sure would love to but it probably be feasible for the moment).

I also took the opportunity to update the sidebar of the community (for those of you who can see it in their app), removing a community that has been closed and listing two interesting new ones:

• !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online, that I just mentioned. and
• !pen_and_paper@lemmy.world, which is open to anything dedicated to, well, pen and paper... including journaling, obviously :)

I'm still not able to post much around here, and I apologize for that. Things should settle down somewhere in March.

We're still gaining a few new members—welcome to every one of you!

Don't be afraid to ask questions if you have any, or to share tips and tricks, or even nice pages from your journal!

'Pro' journaling tip:

I see a lot of beginners starting to journal with passion and with a lot of energy and then, for one reason or another, they’re not able to keep up with that energy level and they start journaling less, and less. Skipping a day here and there, then a week, then more… And then they give up entirely because they feel like it’s a failure. That’s a mistake. There is no failure in journaling.

I know very well how bad one can feel when not keeping their journal up to date (like, I’m not doing it right now and have not been doing for a few months) but I've also been journaling for well over 40 years. Oftentimes, I 'failed' at keeping my journal up to date and that’s no big deal. A pause in one’s journal entries can be another legit part of that journal.

To get back at it after such a pause, one thing I like to do is to summarize whatever I remember as quickly as possible, like in a few lines at most. I did this and that, this happened, and so on. Often, while I’m doing that, or when I read it back, this triggers more detailed memories, and events I did not remember at first. That’s when I start writing more like I would in my ‘normal’ journal, trying to be as detailed as I can, writing about my own thoughts and emotions too. I know those memories will never be perfect nor complete, but they’re not less interesting. Even less so when I read them a few years down the road.

It helps to be ok with not being perfect in our own journal. And it helps not just in regards to journaling ;)

Announcing the #FediWriMo Journaling January event:

The event schedule is as follows:

🖋️ Dates: Jan 1st - Jan 31st, 2026.
🖋️ Daily writing prompts will be supplied, but are optional.
🖋️ The goal is to write a minimum of three pages a day.
🖋️ Writing daily is more important than meeting the goal.
🖋️ Posting excerpts is optional, but encouraged.

If you are interested in participating:

➤ Sign up on https://feddit.online and join the FediWriMo Community, or

➤ Join !NaNoWriMo2@feddit.online from any Lemmy, Mbin, or PieFed instance.

➤ Follow nanowrimo2@feddit.online from Mastodon, GotoSocial or other platforms for daily prompts and updates.

➤ Use the event hashtag: #FediJournJan

I hope you decide to join us this January! More information to come soon.

Journiv is in early beta and I have not been been able to install it, at least not yet as I asked the dev if they could help ignorant-me, but the app sure looks nice and it promises privacy (control of our journal) to its users, the lack of which being the main reason why I quit using Day One years ago, going back full time to analog journaling.

So, if you're more tech-savvy than I am or have more brain power than I have (which should not be difficult) and you manage to install the app, feel free to share your experience with all of us and with the dev who is asking for user feedback.

Via.

Hi guys,

First thing first: a warm, if a bit late, welcome to all new members! We're now a little over 1K members. That's huge, no... it's even more impressive than that if we remember where we were 10 months ago.

Don't be shy. Make this community yours by asking questions, sharing images, links, tips, ideas. Or just by saying hi :)

I've been failing to post for way too long, for that I'm sorry. For anyone wondering what happened, let's say that for the time being I'm still buried under the huge piles of my old journals but I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

The question: would you be interested in a new banner/icon for the community? Now would be a great time to share your opinion on the question, if you have one ;)

Hobonichi users, how do you manage writing several pages a day?I know I'm super early, but I'm considering getting a Hobonichi to journal. I already have a A5 notebook that's almost full, but I don't really go back to it (because it's a chore knowing what day it was for specific entries, although I might just not display it enough), and I'd spend weeks not writing at all for some reason. I think having a journal where the dates are pre-written might help.The thing is, when I write entries, I tend to write several pages. Is there a way to "work around" this, or are Hobonichi just not for me?#journaling #hobonichi @journaling@sh.itjust.works

For those unfamiliar, the rubber duck method is more or less laying out a problem to something else (rubber duck, pet, whatever) to try to solve it. I've most often come across this as explicitly talking to the rubber duck, but apparently writing to them is also an approach?

In any case, those that go about this method writing already know where I'm going with this...Journaling can be like extending the rubber duck method to anything else, but especially oneself.

It's especially nice when done analog or via local-only software, so you can sort things out offline. Plus if you do decide you want to share what you've worked out, or worked on, with others (probably with some revisions) you'll already have a backup in place.

If you don't already journal and were looking for what to write about, or some reasons to, there's a few for you right there.

(bonus for the analog method is you can trail off and start doodling goofy stuff as you write)