[Closed] Does anyone keep a journal?

when i travel i write one, mostly to remember what i did, but putting down how i feel and funny stories of getting lost etc. also stuff that got to me which really helped.

I had one for 8 months used it 4-5 times a week

Think it would make a great book. 22 year old takes on the world.

Twitter + search, what more do I need?

Actually, I'm regretting that I've never kept one filled with details of my outdoor adventurettes over the years.

This.

Slogo - yes, exactly! No editing of the hand-written word means, perhaps, a more realistic tale. I just wish that after each adventurette I had taken time to reflect and ponder before putting pen to paper. With a nice glass of wine obviously. 🙂

mogrim - you're missing the point!

I've kept a blog/journal when I've been touring which I've found fun to write up at the end of a day. If I'm working on a project, I often take pictures of progress in lieu of a written account.

A friend of mine has kept one for most of her adult life. We are now both in our mid-fifties; when a group of us reminisce she reappears a few days later to confirm all the facts, which can be interesting... 8)

Pilots keep log books which is much the same.

It's when you look back through your old log books, sometimes years later that the log triggers memories which otherwise would have been lost.

No doubt now there is an app somewhere to link in pics and GPS trace.

I have kept a diary every day for almost 15 yrs all the holidays, children growing up, adventures, and rides, can even look back and look at the what the weather was like on that particular day. Agree it will make excellent rocking chair reading when the time comes.

Never, not got many pictures either. Sometimes wish I had a record but then realise I would just be another boring fart dwelling in my past. I'm 44, maybe my opinion will change in the future but it will be too late by then.....

I've tried, but I just don't have the mind-set to sit down and record stuff, which is a shame, because there's loads of stuff I'd like to be able to look back at the details, particularly all the gigs I've been to over the last forty-plus years. 🙁

My wife has a leather bound note book in which she occasionally makes a note about how she feels, what she's thinking, what she's seen, what's been said, what should have been said..
Because of her work, she witnesses a lot of raw and profound emotion and it's important to her to have it all written down in case something happens to her so our daughter and I will have it.
She's made us promise to only read it when she has died (assuming we're still here).
I won't ever read it though.

Actually, my partner jots her thoughts down in a notepad, here it is

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dug the journal out today.

quality reading.

Yes, but only cos it's part of my college course. And it's only about college stuff. Prior to that - no.

Tried to keep one on last year's holiday. Mrs Labsey wrote loads, my typical entry was "Went to Nou Camp today". More a tweet than a journal entry.

Mind you I suppose Facebook is a journal (of sorts).

[quote=cinnamon_girl ]Yes, I know it sounds a bit twee!
Actually, I'm regretting that I've never kept one filled with details of my outdoor adventurettes over the years.
I know many of you have blogs but the idea of something hand-written and with proper photographs becomes more meaningful
I've kept a wee diary on various trips over the years and my blog started as me just writing them down to share online. That's encouraged me to write a bit more. It's difficult to know how much "personal" stuff to include though. I find cycling great for reflection but there are definitely some things I'd not want to share publicly.

I used to keep a diary but having a little brother / big sister meant that it was found, read and held up to ridicule by the whole family. They loll-ed.