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Do you keep a diary or journal, Veeky Forums?

If so, what do you use? A paper notebook? A text file? Some sort of encryption? Something in the cloud?

What do you write about?

desu general

I've got a file full of autistically categorized journals on my desktop called "Journal Dump", categories include "Writing", "Scrapbook", "Important numbers and Details", "General Life", "Cooking" and "Social Plans".

Anyone else do this?

>"Important numbers and Details"
Like dubs?

Would like to know more about 'general life', 'cooking' and 'social plans' as well.

I write on loose sheets of paper then put them in one of those cardboard boxes companies use to store paper records of things. It's about a third full.

what if someone finds your diary desu?

Not very interesting to be honest man.

>Important Numbers and Details
I can never remember anything so I have a stock of my passwords, security questions, bank stuff etc.

>General Life
I've sub-divided this into "Event Dump"(where I write about specific events in my life), "Goals" (which I use just to clarify in my mind where I want to be and what I want to do in the future, long term and short term), and "Thought Dump" (which is more cerebral abstract stuff, like moral problems and arguments I'm working out in my head and also just fragmented stuff tends to get put in there too, kind of like aphorisms but shit and usually meaningless when I read them back later. But I try not to delete stuff, cuz I think it's important to keep a record, even of the stuff you write that kind of embarrasses you later)

>Cooking
Literally just a stock of recipes. I'm gonna start a text doc for notes on meals I've cooked (What I can improve etc.) but I haven't got round to that yet

>Social Plans
Notes on events with friends I've got coming up, but more importantly, notes on events I want to set up with friends. Like I'm planning to travel a little next summer, not sure where but I'd like to, and I've got a note of that in the "Far-Future" doc in this folder, along with notes on what I need to do to lay the groundwork for that to happen (Research places to go etc.). When it gets nearer the time, i'll hopefully have completed all the things I need to do, and I can move it to the "Near-Future" doc and change the tasks to be more specific.

I'm not sure how autistic this is sounding, but it really helps if you're completely scatterbrained like I am. I'd never get anything done if I didn't categorize things this way, even though it takes time. It's a way of directing your effort and energy where it needs to go to make things happen. Also really useful for self-improvement and shit (I've got folders for "Fitness", "Reading", and "Languages"(even though I'm terrible at getting round to doing anything with that, the language folders just a collection of textbook pdfs)

I used to have a routine of spending an hour every week night just working on one of these folders. Like I'd take the "cooking" folder and just research recipes, or I'd take the "Event Dump" doc and just analyse something that happened recently that was playing on my mind. But I've kind of fallen out of the habit since I went to uni; i'd like to get back into it though. It had real benefits.

I keep a diary on a word document. For everything else like quick note taking and ideas I use a pocket-sized notebook.

A physical diary is definitely better but it takes too long to write and I can't go back and edit stuff.

I keep a trade specific journal

>I can never remember anything so I have a stock of my passwords, security questions, bank stuff etc.
Isn't that risky to keep laying around?

are you a captain?

No. It'd be riskier to fist fight a gorilla.

I keep a google doc where i just write everything. I try to start a new entry every day (but will often go back to add to old poems and stuff too).

It's not really a regular diary in the sense of writing about your day though.

>not typewriting you are dairy

Probably but I don't really have any other option. I really can't remember shit. Also it's not physical, it's on my desktop, and nobody uses my computer except me, so, though I don't know about any aspect of online security, it's not really just laying around.

I've kept one since last year as a word doc on my dropbox. I was writing daily until June but I've cut it back to weekly because the purpose of the journal was to get me writing again, and I started to divert a lot of that effort into outlining a bunch of short stories, writing erotica, and developing characters for use in a novel and a couple of short stories that are linked together.

I mostly write about the important events of the week in my life and sometimes in the news. Sometimes I'll go a bit deeper and be more introspective, why do I do the things I do, why I do X rather than Y even though from any intelligent perspective Y is the superior choice, ect. My tone constantly shifts as well, I've noticed. Some weeks I'm pretty good spirited and cheerful and others it's pathetically pessimistic.

>tfw too self-conscious to write

I keep a dream journal in my phone.
>tfw all my sexual dreams are me watching porn just like in real like
fuck you brain

Porn is basically a VR cuckold training device.

Stop it lad. Watch solo girls if you have to watch anything.

I use a Microsoft Word file. It's probably over 40k words right now.

I write in spiral notebooks, been doing this for a few years now (im 21). I have a plastic tote nearly fileld with old notebooks and binders of papers. Ive thrown away a good chunk of it away, the nonsensical bullshit that i dont care to ever see again.

Good luck trying to read my autistic first grader hand writing, i always use pens so any mistakes i make just get scribbled, so my writing is a fucking mess on paper

I write about anything im thinking about and want to solidify in words. It used to be more emotional/diary form, but lately i have been writing full force on books im reading, music, my dreams (sleep dreams and goal dreams), and philosophy

What do you lads get out of a dream journal?

For me i feel as though my dreams are representative of feelings i have day to day. Sometimes i have dreams about people or things in waking life that i want to remember.
For example my mom died when i was 10. I have had numerous dreams with her in them, and in one dream she told me i could always talk to her when i wanted to. Im agnostic, but that captured a lot of feelings i had about her death.
Also someday i want to lucid dream. Helps to practice recalling your dreams while awake.

I have multiple journals and a book I write letters in to a girl I don't have the courage to send them too.

I have a physical planner-journal hybrid and a digital one for when I'm too lazy to stand up, get my pens and write my thoughts down.

Same. I have one where I used to just keep a bland list of events on it but now it's just a place to focus and experiment on my writing without the context or a story or anything

>a book I write letters in to a girl

I did that for about a week in Seventh grade before being disgusted with how pathetic it is. It's pathetic. You're pathetic.

Are there any real good published diaries about everyday lives?

And the more modern and nonfiction the better, as much as I like stuff like Diary of a Man in Despair, I've never had the chance to live in Nazi Germany, nor have I fought in a war, so I can't relate to those.

interested in this as well desu

Video porn is the main cause of the spread of cuckoldry these days. If you need visual stimulation find sexy pictures and imagine yourself fucking them.

I write every other day, daily activities, how I feel about certain topics and some people.
I write my dreams sometimes.
Also I'm from Mexico and write it in english, and while doing it in public some friends or people glance, but they barely catch a few words.

moleskine or die

I liked the Journal of a Disappointed Man a lot, user.

I-it's expensive though desu

>fancy journals

Really, all you need is a plain college rule spiral bound notebook. Writing in anything else is a pain in the.. hand.

If I get the fucking store front captcha again I am quitting Veeky Forums.

Private blogger page. Really helps.

Consider getting a password manager

>this

I started off back in high school with spiral notebooks, spilling my teenage angst on the pages.

Once I started making my own money I moved up to hardback journals. Tried a few different kinds over the years, but currently I'm writing in cheap, $5.00 hardback journals I picked up at B&N. Paper is cheap stock, but it's lined and the binding is pretty good.

And mostly I write about my thoughts and feelings, shit that's affected me during the day, things on my mind. Sometimes I work on story ideas, or maybe just free write. A friend bought me a book of writing prompts for christmas last year, so every once in a while I flip to a random page and get prompted.

>Do you keep a diary or journal, Veeky Forums?
diary
>If so, what do you use? A paper notebook? A text file? Some sort of encryption? Something in the cloud?
paper notebook
>What do you write about?
muh life
therefore one needs a life