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The idea with this Weekly Thread is to encourage people to participate more by sharing a theme. See that as an invitation, nothing more and you’re more than welcome to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread while ignoring this one.

This week theme: Where do you journal?

Do you like to write your journal at home, comfortably installed on your desk or maybe on a couch or in the bed? Or do you journal everywhere you go? And how? Do you do it on your phone, or in your journal (that you carry everywhere you go?) or maybe in smaller notebook?

  • the_abecedarian@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Mostly, I journal at home on my dining table. But, while I was on a trip recently, I felt the need to journal and of course didn’t have my trusty typewriter with me. Writing on my phone would have been easy, but I felt that, in doing it that way, I would have missed the physicality of doing it on paper.

    So I gladly accepted it as an excuse to go to the stationery store and browse the journal options. Given that I tend to like medium- or broad-nib pens – in fact, I’ve recently fallen in love with a stub nib fountain pen – I knew it’d have to be bigger than the pocket-sized options. For my Goldilocks combination of carrying size, size during use on a train or flight, fountain pen compatible paper, and minimalism, I ended up with a Mnemosyne 104. I’ve done one entry in it, but I plan to tear out the page and enter it into my springback binder, with all the looseleaf I usually use with my typewriter, so that it is integrated into my chronological order.

    I realized that I didn’t really care if people on public transit next to me were reading what I was writing.

    • LibbEnglish
      1·
      16 hours ago

      I felt the need to journal and of course didn’t have my trusty typewriter with me.

      May I ask what model?

      So I gladly accepted it as an excuse to go to the stationery store and browse the journal options.

      I would never do such a thing. Never 8)

      I realized that I didn’t really care if people on public transit next to me were reading what I was writing.

      Neither do I (my handwriting is too poor) but I worry about corporation ‘mining’ whatever I trust them with.

      • the_abecedarian@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        11 hours ago

        It’s a Triumph Gabriele-e. I love this machine.

        Yes, I’m much more wary of corporate invasions of privacy than the odd looky-loo peering over my shoulder. There are ways of keeping your data away from prying eyes – see Selfhosted – but the brain-to-hand-to-mechanical machine (or pen) feeling is more satisfying, permanent, and tangible.

        • LibbEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          Nice :)

          I used to own an Olympia SG1 (my grandad’s) that I loved to type on. It was a joy to use. I gave it to a friend when I switched full time to computer full time, in the late 80s. At first I thought nothing about it (it had done its time) but, say, around the early 00s I started realizing I missed it and I’ve been regretting it since then. For portable (the sg1 was heavy like a tank), I used to use a Lettera 22. Still, my true love was that Olympus ;)

          There are ways of keeping your data away from prying eyes

          I’m worrying both about the corporate greed and at the same time of that relentless trend in our elected representatives (and even more so in our non-elected bureaucracies), all to vote laws reducing or forbidding the use of true digital privacy protecting tools. Here in France for example, I would not be surprised if in a not too distant future things like Tor or VPNS or even the use of full non-backdoored encryption were to suddenly become illegal for the average Joe (except for people like, say, journalists, bankers, lawyers and other sensitive professions like that) all in the name of hunting naughty terrorists and perverts, obviously—not at all as a way to better control a rapidly growing percentage of unsatisfied population.