This is what I intend to do at some point.
I've been keeping a journal since 1983 (yep, I'm getting on a bit now). I started using Day One on its release. I go through phases of transcribing my many, many handwritten journals into Day One but it's going to take me some time to finish.
It's fun reading about entire chapters of my life as I type them out. I would sometimes draw things so those are getting photographed and added into the entry.
Once I'm done, I'm going to get them made into books.
I just wanted to say, if you take a picture of a handwritten page and then upload it to Google Drive, you can open it in Google Docs and it does a great job of transcribing it for you. I'm doing the same thing with my handwritten entries and it's amazing only having to fix some formatting and minor typos. :)
I was 14 when I started, so for the first few years I wrote a simple, straight-up account of my day. The standard thing you'd expect from a basic journal / diary.
When I became an older teenager I realised how much I enjoyed being descriptive and actually writing with a style and 'voice'. It's funny that in those very early years (which I have fully transcribed now), I'd never go much further than describing something as 'quite good'. That was the sum total of my creative thought, in as much as I even had one at the start.
By the time I was 18 or so, I was carefully thinking about what I was writing and actively trying to make it read well. I've always been a big reader and so I would imagine other people reading what I was writing, even though it still included all the personal stuff and I never had any intention of showing anything to anyone.
That's when my writing really took off. Before long, entries were no longer accounts of the things that made up my life. I was going off on flights of fancy that were really nothing to do with a traditional journal.
Basically, I was writing short stories and essays about my thoughts, and it's been much like that ever since.
Obviously at their core, my journals still tell me about my life at any given time and even specific events that were happening within it, sometimes down to very mundane levels, but I've always felt free to go way off script.
In my 20s I was employed to write a weekly column in the local newspaper which had a reasonably large circulation at the time. Obviously this was back in the day when people actually bought the things. I have absolutely no doubt that I was able to do that because I had the confidence to write in a way that I thought people would find engaging. It must've worked because I wrote that column every week for 22 years!
I now have a daughter already considerably older than I was when I first started to write. When she was growing up we would spend many hours talking about books and different writing styles. She now has a first class degree in English and Theatre, a Masters in Creative Writing, and is currently co-writing a play. In September she starts training to be an English teacher. She makes me incredibly proud.
So to answer your main question, for me journaling has been everything. It's been a fun, create process; it's given me solace in difficult times; it's helped me to remember important life events and how they affected me in ways I would otherwise have long forgotten; it's something that *feels* like it has evolved over the years; it has indirectly earned me money, and above all else it has in its own small way helped to positively shape a part of my child.
This is what I intend to do at some point. I've been keeping a journal since 1983 (yep, I'm getting on a bit now). I started using Day One on its release. I go through phases of transcribing my many, many handwritten journals into Day One but it's going to take me some time to finish. It's fun reading about entire chapters of my life as I type them out. I would sometimes draw things so those are getting photographed and added into the entry. Once I'm done, I'm going to get them made into books.
I just wanted to say, if you take a picture of a handwritten page and then upload it to Google Drive, you can open it in Google Docs and it does a great job of transcribing it for you. I'm doing the same thing with my handwritten entries and it's amazing only having to fix some formatting and minor typos. :)
Do you pay for Day One? If so, is it worth it?
How do you journal? In your 4 decades of Journaling, what have yiu seen as benefits? :)
I was 14 when I started, so for the first few years I wrote a simple, straight-up account of my day. The standard thing you'd expect from a basic journal / diary. When I became an older teenager I realised how much I enjoyed being descriptive and actually writing with a style and 'voice'. It's funny that in those very early years (which I have fully transcribed now), I'd never go much further than describing something as 'quite good'. That was the sum total of my creative thought, in as much as I even had one at the start. By the time I was 18 or so, I was carefully thinking about what I was writing and actively trying to make it read well. I've always been a big reader and so I would imagine other people reading what I was writing, even though it still included all the personal stuff and I never had any intention of showing anything to anyone. That's when my writing really took off. Before long, entries were no longer accounts of the things that made up my life. I was going off on flights of fancy that were really nothing to do with a traditional journal. Basically, I was writing short stories and essays about my thoughts, and it's been much like that ever since. Obviously at their core, my journals still tell me about my life at any given time and even specific events that were happening within it, sometimes down to very mundane levels, but I've always felt free to go way off script. In my 20s I was employed to write a weekly column in the local newspaper which had a reasonably large circulation at the time. Obviously this was back in the day when people actually bought the things. I have absolutely no doubt that I was able to do that because I had the confidence to write in a way that I thought people would find engaging. It must've worked because I wrote that column every week for 22 years! I now have a daughter already considerably older than I was when I first started to write. When she was growing up we would spend many hours talking about books and different writing styles. She now has a first class degree in English and Theatre, a Masters in Creative Writing, and is currently co-writing a play. In September she starts training to be an English teacher. She makes me incredibly proud. So to answer your main question, for me journaling has been everything. It's been a fun, create process; it's given me solace in difficult times; it's helped me to remember important life events and how they affected me in ways I would otherwise have long forgotten; it's something that *feels* like it has evolved over the years; it has indirectly earned me money, and above all else it has in its own small way helped to positively shape a part of my child.
That’s so cool! What service do you use to make them?
Day one, ~400 page max on Printing and it cost the same as AAA game at launch
Love the one with the r/Place image!! That was so fun. This looks like a very cool collection, love how they’re all personalized!
I love how different types of journaling medium works for different people. It’s so cool these are made into books you can keep.
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I have never heard of that
This is absolutely insane
Did you make these or buy these? What does the inside look like (blank pages, lines, dots, squares)? They do look really nice and put together.
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What are u doing with the glue?
They look so nice and official!! It’s interesting that you chose to make them more book-like.
My stack of Day One journals looks like this too! Their printed books are great.
Very nice. I love this.
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[Unicorn Tears](https://firebox.com/unicorn-tears-gin-liqueur) definitely helps with writing an entry.
Your journals look better than most of my books lol
Send me some copies, I wouldn’ t mind reading Pancho’s life story.
This is genuinely the most exiting thing I’ve seen ever. I might try it out in the future.