Recommend me a journaling system. What have worked for you? (piefed.social)

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I want to take daily notes to keep track of my tasks, achievements, thoughts and appointments.

The problem is that every time I start journaling, I'm initially very motivated.

However, after one or two months, I get bored with the app or system and either switch to another one or completely abandon it.

I appreciate any advice or insights.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've tried all popular and popularized ways to do it, and I've been having hard time with it a lot. Here is a short list I can think if off top of my head:

paper journals — structured (bullet journal), unstructured
Obsidian
RoamResearch
evernote
vimwiki

I've noticed that to me, the tool must be a perfect fit, otherwise I will just forget about it and stop using it.

So, now I use a paper notebook with Lamy Safari, and keep literally no system (except for writing down date and place — I don't even write things down every day!). With that, I can keep journaling and taking adequate notes at work with at least some level of consistency — that I don't miss any information in the process. That is what worked for me :)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Hul your comment is not clear for me. Does the - start in a ( and end whiteout closing ? Or does it mean a third afitionnal though at the end of the sentence ?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Sorry about that 😅 In short, here is what I meant:

I've tried a lot of things and systems
the thing that worked the best was to buy a nice fountain pen and drop the structure whatsoever

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn't understood this at all XD. That great, what work for me is putting alarms as long as I ma not interrupted while setting the alarm

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