Merlin’s weekly podcast with Dan Benjamin. We talk about creativity, independence, and making things you love.
Journaling
Dan Grover | Mar 21 2006
Here's my thinking When I'm developing software, and there's some glitch, what I'll sometimes do is go back into the source where I suspect there might be a problem, and try to figure it out. When in regular life, though, I'm thinking what I should do is start keeping a journal. Then when I ask myself "What was I thinking!?" I can go and find out exactly. Then remind myself "Oh yeah, don't think that." Also sometimes I vent online when I shouldn't. And in some cases it may be seen by people I might not, and sometimes it's googlable and everything. So I downloaded a journal program for the Mac that looked pretty spiffy. But then I realized why I make my to-do lists by hand -- there are certain things that just look stupid typed. And if I kept it in a digital format, there's always that risk of anyone who finds it reproducing it quite easily. I went and ordered a Moleskine ruled large notbook thing, 'cause they seemed nice (and the descriptions of reminded me a little bit, for some reason, of the journal Winston purchases in 1984). I can't wait to get it -- I ordered it with cheapo Media Mail shipping which takes forever. I figure what I should do is set aside a small amount of time every day, probably before bed, to write in it. I could put down thoughts, ideas, reflections, etc, and probably start to develop some conventions for doing so to make it easy to go back and see (e.g. the 'meta data' notebook hacks on here). Does anyone here journal? Is it a useful activity? Any journaling hacks? 41 Comments
POSTED IN:
 I actually journal in a...Submitted by Ecgtheow on March 23, 2006 - 1:49pm.
GOD wrote:
I actually journal in a few places. For one, I have a blog. Then I keep a pretty barebones list with brief details of what I do everyday in a Moleskine Daily Diary (I don't like for there to be days where I have no idea what I did that day). I use a small Moleskine gridded book for notes I'd like to take by hand and stuff that overflows from the diary. Finally, I have a bigger Moleskine that I put deep dark stuff in. But I don't write in there very often. Most of what I record is just what happened, verbal pictures to remember the past when I get older. One of my favorite ex-girlfriends used to keep a log of what she did every day at work so at review time she could pull it out and say "ah ha!" I think her boss was impressed, cause she wrangled a slightly larger than cost of living raise. Unfortunately any log of mine would consist of a few work related entries and then hours and hours of porductivity pr0n surfing. --Ecg » POSTED IN:
|
|
| EXPLORE 43Folders | THE GOOD STUFF |
