Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Ask all your questions here. Are you more experienced? Feel free to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything related to keeping a journal is welcome in this weekly thread.

Why a WT?

We’ve a steadily growing community—we’re now 465 members! Welcome to all of you!—but we don’t have that much active members.

My idea is to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread ;)

This week theme: Is your journal analog or digital? Both? Or something else entirely?

Are you more of an analog or a digital user? Do you use both without any hesitation? Do you use a dedicated app like, say, DayOne, or a word processor, or a text editor, something like MS Word, LibreOffice or TextEdit?

Do you have an app you love to use? That helps you journaling?

Disclaimer: don’t you dare question my amazing illustrator skills. This is a perfectly fine illustration for the weekly thread, one many pro news outlets would envy us :p

  • mikesplaces@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I’ve been using phone and laptop with markdown journals synced between them. I’d love to do analog journaling but my handwriting. I love being able to sync the files using syncthing from my Mac to android phone. Can go out and write at coffee shops or whatever. Some day may go to analog. I’m used to writing in markdown apps though. This way just works for me.

    • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      May I ask what editor you use? I use Codium (a version of VSCode without without Microsoft spywares) to write my blog in Markdown (and libreOffice for the rest).

      I’d love to do analog journaling but my handwriting.

      Mine is a real nightmare. It would shame any doctor. And I don’t care, it’s my journal I’m the only one supposed to be reading it… when I mange to read my handwriting :p

      • mikesplaces@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        I use markor on Android and typora on the Mac. Prior to the android phone I had an iphone. Then I used IA writer on both. That was easier and I didn’t need syncthing. I tried using a cloud sync app but it seemed to cause lots of conflicts. Typora for me is the nicest markdown app. i wish android had nicer markdown apps.

        • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          Thx. I will look at the Typora app to see what it is :)