Tag: journaling
It's that time of the year: Hobonichi Season
2027 will be my 4th year using Hobonichi
I had a nightmare last night
I'm curious what the difference between a dream and a nightmare is. Kinda feels like the difference between pornography and erotic art, you'll know when you see it. I was in my hometown walking somewhere. I think I was walking to class, would've been a long walk I go to school almost 2000 miles from...
Writing for Pleasure
She told me to write so I started writing. Sometimes we need a little bit of encouragement from the people we love to do something for ourselves. Writing has been a thing that I have struggled to do of my own volition for most of my life. Why would I write for myself? It makes...
The Dorothy Practice: Staying With the Visible World for Another Beat
I am sitting in Bonnie, our caravan, with my morning coffee while the campsite begins to wake around me. A rook is cleaning up the empty pitch next to ours. One of his companions joins him. A little later, on my way to the shower block, I pass a chicken picking crumbs from another camper’s...
This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our …
This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our caravan, with a cup of coffee and Dorothy Wordsworth’s The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals open in front of me. We are in a field near Ashbourne on our first trip away in her. Dorothy is writing about walks, weather, meals, visitors, William, and the small movements of...
Favorite Summer Songs
Laura Cameron at The Well-Apportioned Desk is wrote a post titled Journal Prompt July. She decided to tackle July journal prompts compiled at the BaronFig blog in 2024. While I do not have a journal, this struck me as promising JulyReply material, so I looked at the five prompts she singled out as interesting examples...
Journaling in the age of Articlemaxxing
Or How I miss the innocent days of Livejournal.. When did writing online become driven by farming success course-slop? Why does everyone want to help me grow, so long as I sign up to an online program or join a paid membership tier? Why does Substack's notes feed look and read with exactly the same level of engagement farming as Crypto Twitter did during the NFT and meme coin heydays?
The Shot
A public journal on my experience taking a GLP-1
Hey everybody h(a)i(ku)
Practicing writing with micropoetry
Journaling with Obsidian - Update
About five months ago, I made the decision to stop using DayOne for journaling and use Obsidian for journaling instead. It felt like a big decision at the time, as I had journaled in DayOne for over 14 years, amassing thousands of memories. I made the move to Obsidian not certain that Obsidian as a journaling platform would stick. But stick it has and I haven't once considered returning to DayOne. The biggest reason I made this move away from DayOne was to get my journaling under my complete con...
Over/Under #58 with Brennan Kenneth
I was interviewed by Hyde on lazybea.rs for their Over/Under series. Covering Discord, journaling, chess, Letterboxd, strawberries, and more.
Intentional daily journaling
I have kept a digital journal for a long time, starting with Momento on my iPhone way back in the day, and then switching to DayOne about 14 years ago. For 14 years, I used DayOne fairly frequently as a place to jot down thoughts, achievements, occurrences in my life, and reflections. However, I made the decision this year to move my journaling from DayOne to Obsidian, mostly as an effort to achieve greater portability, reduce friction, and eliminate another app subscription. I was mostly gratef...
falling asleep at the journal
unintended effect of trying to write a poem everyday
Plugins for journaling in Obsidian
When I decided to move my journaling from DayOne to Obsidian, there were two things I knew I was going to miss - the calendar view and the map view. Way back when I last used Obsidian, there was not a simple way to replicate these features within Obsidian. Thankfully, that has changed. In addition to the standard Daily Notes core plugin, here is how I replicated these other features: Notebook Navigator is a wonderful plugin that replaces a lot of other plugins. But the most important thing it do...
Write Everything Down
What makes someone obsessively journal every moment of their life? In some cases, it might actually be hypergraphia, a condition tied to a neurological trait.
Forced Entry
In thinking about rituals, specifically in an electronic context, my mind tends to jump to the rituals we do almost unconsciously, ones…