Why a WT?

We’ve a steadily growing community—we’re now 494 members! Welcome to all of you :)—but we still lack momentum.

The idea is to encourage more participation by sharing a weekly theme. This just an invitation and you’re more than welcome to comment about anything else (related to journaling), or to start your own thread ;)

Also: do you think we should do something to celebrate the 500th… if we manage to get there?

This week theme: What do you do you when you finish a journal?

Do you have any special rituals, or do you just start a new one?

Obviously, the question concerns pen and paper journalers more than digital users but don’t hesitate to comment as a digital user too! Explain us how you manage switching app (or if you don’t switch and only use one, like I used to do when I used DayOne), or if you lack the emotion of finally filling the very last page of a notebook and starting a new one? Or if there is no emotion associated with that?

Edit: once again, I used my non-admin account to post this weekly thread. Silly me. Feel free to petition and demand a less amateurish admin if you feel like it’s needed. I won’t protest :p

  • vfscanf@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    7 days ago

    I keep my journal analog, I feel more comfortable writing my thoughts on paper, because I don’t trust modern tech enough to not upload it to some server without my consent. Having said that, I do like my smartphone. I’ve just setup Joplin with my own server for taking notes and sketches on the go.

    • LibbOPEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      Yep, privacy is a real concern for me too (the lack of digital intimacy will become even more prevalent once our legislators will have managed to force software to have backdoors in their apps so they can hunt the ‘naughty terrorists’)

      I would not dare setting up my own server for, well, anything. I’m too afraid to screw something ;)