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Five-year diary
Nov. 29th, 2004 03:29 pmAs some of you folks know, I'm a diarist from way back, and have been keeping a paper journal regularly for over twenty years. It's a catch-all, everything all together in one spot, almost impossible to find anything in if that were the point, but it isn't.
I'm going to try something different for a while, and am getting a five-year diary. If you've never seen one of these things, each page is a day (therefore 366 pages because of leap years, typically these books can be used for any five-year period) and divided into five sections (one for each year). Thus you have only 5 or 6 lines to write in for a given day.
Which doesn't sound like much, and it isn't much, but that's the point--at the end of each day you have to think of one core concept, one most-important thing that happened, one vital fact that pulls the day together for you. An exercise in precision, the intent is to be concise and to the point (kind of the opposite of my usual approach to journaling! :))
I'm going to try something different for a while, and am getting a five-year diary. If you've never seen one of these things, each page is a day (therefore 366 pages because of leap years, typically these books can be used for any five-year period) and divided into five sections (one for each year). Thus you have only 5 or 6 lines to write in for a given day.
Which doesn't sound like much, and it isn't much, but that's the point--at the end of each day you have to think of one core concept, one most-important thing that happened, one vital fact that pulls the day together for you. An exercise in precision, the intent is to be concise and to the point (kind of the opposite of my usual approach to journaling! :))
