You don’t know how good it feels to be reunited with my study. 📚

It took a lot longer to complete than I hoped it would. I'm looking forward to doing a lot more positive writing in the next one. ☺️

I don't have another red at home :(

(I will go buy a new filling soon 😎 to the city!)

hey everybody. i wanna share with you my new routine. this morning i woke up at 3:50 am, went to cr, brushed my teeth, washed my face and change my clothes. by 4:10 am, i wrote my journal which is MORNING PAGES (3 pages of journal every morning). it took me 40 minutes just for journal guys. then next, by 4:50 am, i open fcc and continue my online computer programming course (web dev). 😉

it's 4:40 pm now here. the problem now is that I'm too sleepy😅 but gotta try harder.

what's yours guys? how did ur day gone?

Advices are welcome!!! Happy Journaling!!!

Here are mine!

1) daily journal for exactly what it sounds like. I write in it daily

2) junk journal, where I put receipts, tickets, wrappers, etc along with a short entry about whatever it is and why I’m saving it

3) dream journal where I write down my dreams. I intended to write in it every day since I dream every night but now I save it for the dreams that really stand out or reoccurring dreams

4) a “fun” journal for lists, quotes, and whatever else I feel like decorating a page for (I have a lot of stickers that I desperately want to use and this is perfect for that)

5) a book log where I keep track of all the books I’m reading and my thoughts on them

6) a church journal where I keep all my notes from sermons and lessons

That’s it. I’ve been thinking about getting one for rants and open letters I’d never send, since I write all of the above with the idea that my family could read them one day. I don’t have one where I write anything negative since I don’t want my kids to see anything like that, but it might be therapeutic for me to have a place to vent. And another one for short stories, but I usually write stories on my phone since it’s easier to edit.

On 2025/04/04 (fri) 14:57:00 (UTC +2), I've finished my journal 12. On 2025/04/04 (fri) 15:42:00 (UTC +2), exactly 45 minutes later (which is not a coincidence), I’ve started journal 13.

It was a big day for me. Journal 12 was with me from 2024/09/20 (fri) 14:33:38 (UTC +2), which means I had it for 0,537 030 758 years, or 196,016 227 days, or 16 935 802 seconds. This makes it the fastest one yet. Sort of, it is bit complicated.

12 had 288 A4 pages, 33 lines per page, 2 dm line length. This all is standard across all of my journals, except for the page count.

Journal 8 came close with the speed of writing, in fact, I’ve finished 12 just 7,4 hours earlier than 8.

Journal 12 was there with me, when I re-lived my last situationship, and this time it was special, since it was “a full cycle” (4 years) since it has happened. 2024/11/03 was my personal holiday, the “day of introversion and inner worlds”, then there was my birthday, Christmas and New year, then 2025/01/23 was again a full cycle since I’ve started to write on paper again, and…then February. The month where I went on the interview, which landed me my current job, start of which is also captured there.

12 was sort of “winter journal”, meaning it was there during the better part of the year. 13, ma favourite number, sadly, will be there for the worse part of the year.

There are 197 articles in that journal, longest is just bit over 8 pages, which is…not much, to be honest, BUT! 12 is the first journal, where I journaled every single day. It was sometimes bit demanding, sometimes I had hard time to find the time for journaling, but I did it anyway. The average is 48,485 782 lines per day. I like this number. That is a good average.

And since the start of 13, I’ve already wrote the longest first article. 3 pages. Doesn’t sound like much, but consider this: I woke up early, had home office, during which I had my hair cut, then I had to write bit less than 2 pages to 12, finish it. Then about 27 lines of closure. Fill out the dates, do the calculations. I had 13 prepared from about a week ago, so I could just fill in the start date, write about 28 lines of opening statements, and then, in the evening, I wrote 3 pages. During that day, I also had to work, clean my flat, take care of the laundry, cook… It was pretty good day.

What is in store for 13? Depending on the speed, it should last just before the start of winter. I believe that before the end of this year, I will start 14. And that one has some great paper. 12 and 13 have thin paper, which is problematic.

And again: I want to read what I will write in 13. Now, there are just blank pages (281 of them left), but I want to sort of skip all of that and read what I will write. I believe in my future self to not only take proper care of my life, but document it in detail.

And here are some photos.

And a fun fact at the end: The store I bought journal 13 (and 16) doesn't exist anymore. I bought it…a couple of years ago, don't know exactly (but I know I went there when it was already dark). But they recently completed a demolition of the buildings, where was the store located. It is a good thing, because that building complex was…not great, and instead of it, something new will grow there, which will server the needs of this city better.

How do you make journaling into a nice activity?

I love stream of consciousness journaling because I'm a perfectionist to the death of me and that is the only way I can somehow battle that and the fear of failure.

[But my life's been pissing in my morning cereal lately. Bank is messing up my finances and I have to use charities to get food/groceries for myself. I'm in immediate need of therapy but my therapy abruptly stopped and I haven't found a new one in this tiny town. I'm paying more than I can afford to for meds that don't help me, and psych queues are months long. And I'm anxiously waiting for the interrogation date -letter from the police to drop in my mail box.That's to name a few of what's happening rn.] <- Spoilered in case you don't want the "details" which is fine*!*

And this means when I try to journal, it's all just word vomit on page but it doesn't feel cathartic. It just brings the blocked-out thoughts and feelings up to the surface and I know it's not healthy to shut them out but at the same time i don't have the capacity to handle them atm.

I want journaling to also be a nice, pleasant activity, maybe even a fun one. I'd love to journal but recently I've been dreading it because of how bad it can make me feel. I don't even want to touch my journal atm bc it's so anxiety inducing.

Is there any tips, advice on how I could go back to enjoying journaling? I'm sorry this might be very vague but I'm getting kind of desperate. I need good, pleasant things/hobbies in my life, especially now. <3

Thank you for reading this far and thank you if you choose to weigh in! I appreciate you all <3!

On holiday I found a really cheap watercolour book but realised it was a texture I don't like for painting so I've started drawing everyone I meet. I'm not very good with pencils but I've found it a good way to remember memories, try drawing different things and practicing my Japanese (I'm only a beginner). I'm terrible at forming habits but I hope I can keep this up. For anyone wondering I only draw animals since human faces always look uncanny when I draw them.

Never journaled before, chose a book that I thought was the most beautiful I’d seen… Now where do I start with journaling. The completionist in me struggles starting now, having not documented the 40 years before this. Any tips welcome💛

I sent it over to him, he didn’t reply though :)

the cover is made from upcycled packaging and a sock. the pages are junk mail and such. the inside is full of journal entries, stickers, magazine and book clippings, things printed from internet, and bits and bobs from my stash. it's about things that i have nightmares about.

Behind the journals, you can see a big notebook torn away. I just started writing in it my final year of high school. I was in love for the first time, so I had looooot to say.

In university, years later, I started writing a bit about how I felt the day was, but in class planners. They're behind what you see here because I don't find them pretty.

It was an on and off thing until 2018, where I got my first Moleskine. As you can see, I have only one journal that's not of this brand since end 2018. It was a gift so I used it, but really I didn't like the experiment..

I am a chronically depressed person, so sometimes there's some blank pages with the dates on them, in the worst times I just write the new date followed by stuff like "I have no idea what happened this month" for example, but overall I'd say it is a success !

Most of the time, I use one page to write about the day and how I felt, and the other page to draw, write or take notes on personal researches.

I have a really bad memory, so that way my days don't just disappear into thin air like they never existed, except for those when I am too depressed to write, but who wants to remember this, really? These stages are just painfully redundant...

I love being able to see how I grew up, how I changed, what I still need to work on, how my relationships evolved...

I am glad I can see them this way, but it really shows the lack of diversity in colors available, I hope I can get my hands on another clear blue or even red, they really pop up !

hi all

hope that i'm following guidelines, bought after a longe hiatus 2 journals from Vex king

and both love em, i was looking for more "prompted?" journal tips, and hoping people have some tips

thanks !

I can't talk to my mother about important things because she is dismissive, defensive and/or tries to gaslight me and make me think I am remembering my childhood wrong. I often take my journal to therapy to share with my therapist what I wrote.

Sorry if my Korean or handwriting in it is bad, I’m learning. But I really just want her to know somehow, someone’s thinking about her and wants her to feel loved and cared for. I don’t know her, I’m not Korean, I don’t live there— but her story just made me so, so sad.

This is the wikipedia page about her death.

Comparison between my old one, kept from December 1st 2024 - April 4th 2025, and my new one bought back in March! I'm so insanely excited :)

I started this 5 year journal mid-year last year so the first few months of this year, I'll had nothing to compare against and now finally can.

Interesting how my handwriting has changed since then too.