Saturday discussion post: diaries (93/365)

[white_hart]

I haven't kept a diary regularly since I was a teenager, when I filled a series of exercise books with angsty outpourings over a period of about four years. (I stopped when I went to university, and binned the old diaries when I came home for Christmas in my first year. Which was probably a good thing, on balance.) I often wonder if I should take it up again, though, mostly because I enjoy the act of writing and it would give me a reason to use some of my nice stationery. I'm not sure what kind of diary I want, though. Probably not angsty outpourings about my innermost feelings, any more; but recording my day-to-day life seems a bit dull (although given how much I enjoy reading my "memories" on Facebook maybe I would like looking back over previous years.

Do you keep a diary, or have you done in the past? What kind of a diary is it?

Comments

[redatt]

I have kept a diary/journal on and off since I was a tween. Mine has always been a bit eclectic and I've pretty much always referred to it as an omni-journal. It contains lists, doodles, rants, things/dates to remember, story ideas, plans, booklog, filmlog, sentence a day--pretty much anything one might want to commit to paper.

I was amused a few years ago to discover that something very like my style of journalling has taken off in a big way but is called 'Bullet Journalling' with many, many Instagrams and YouTube channels devoted to it.

[white_hart]

I know lots of people who keep bullet journals, but I've never really been able to get my head round it. I do have notebooks with random jottings in but never stick to the same one consistently!

[redatt]

Many bullet journals do seem a bit, er, extra :-D