Smart idea.

Only time will tell ;)

Digital. Always. Especially because I can password lock those in a way I can’t with the notebooks I have on hand, I’d have to go out of my way to buy some special thing with a lock. While yes, my phone or laptop is very expensive but I already own it so no new purchase.

You certainly got a point. It’s really much more simple… provided one has full ownership the phone or device. I mean, a minor person may still be forced to allow their parents read their journal, even digital if they are the one controlling the device.

Thx :)

Edit: edited my own post to remove what was obviously against rule #2 (aka, no politics).

Depends.

I tend not to. But I also will often talk about certain topics with my spouse. Some other topics will naturally permeate into conversations with other people too. While other entries may be used as a new blog post entries.

I tried for a while to post my little sketches and even created a small blog dedicated to that task, but it was too much of a hassle to scan or photograph each one of them and then post them. I also tried to post them on Mastodon, since it was somehow quicker, but since I never use Mastodon I have no followers and quite logically nobody was seeing my doodles. I realized it was kind of useless and gave up.

What about you? Do you share stuff? And if so how? ;)

Honestly, I never considered the way to name it, but yes why not. That said, I tend to not judge people on their job nor on how much money they earn no matter what. For me, a job is what most people do to be able to afford what they need to live their live I’m much more interested to know what they do with their free time and how they think about things ;)

Market reflects uncertainty and fear (or their exact opposite: hope and confidence) it doesn’t cause them to begin with. So, no.

Could a poorly thought-out and poorly applied economical and radical geopolitical policy change bring the world closer to some kind of war(s)? Sure. It already did so in only 3 months.

For the first time in almost 80 years I see moderate people in my country, France, not radical anti-americans, real moderates, considering the USA as the real threat to our security and to world peace (and I may include myself in that count)… I would not be surprised the feeling was kinda similar, if not much worse, for Canadians, Greenlanders and, quite obviously, for Ukrainians.

I’m all for simplifying, but that should not come as a surprise ;)

Unskilled labor is unskilled not in the sense they don’t have any know-how or value but in the sense of the job itself not require a lot of qualification to be done.

An experienced manual worker has a lot value to any competent boss hiring them, or then the boss is rather incompetent, but the manual work required to the job is not comparable to, say, the skills required to be able to do brain surgery, or to write some marketing bullshit to convince million people that they need to buy a new car or phone, or that they should elect the most illiterate racist asshole candidate they could ever pick as their president. Those are all ‘skilled’ labor but, here again, that doesn’t mean they have any intrinsic better quality just that they required (a lot) more preparation/learning.

I was under the impression that the community slanted more towards people who journal on paper. So it was nice to have a link to click.

Sorry, I just noticed your comment today.

To make it 100% clear: the community is agnostic and is open to any form of journaling. It will reflect that, hopefully, as soon as more people start posting about digital and analog alike.

As a user I’m mostly analog and since it happens I’m also the admin and the main poster (I would be so happy to see that being challenged!) well it’s mostly focused on analog and attracts to like-minded people. So, by all means, feel free to make it a lot more digital if you’re into digital. I will happily read that and participate if I think I have anything worth sharing as, along the years, I also have been using digital a lot, I just decided to give up on it :)

Happy to say we have had a little activity going on in !journaling@sh.itjust.works, which means a lot of activity in comparison with the previous weeks/months ;)

No idea why this week there were more activity but I certainly will not complain. Maybe this week’s theme in the weekly thread I post has helped out? Can’t tell.

We also gained 12 new members since last week which is great, obviously.

Indeed (& thx for the link), can be burden though. As a child, trying to protect from my mother, I used to change names an verbs (and quickly started to write in English since she could bot read it)

I use a typewriter (a Triumph Gabriele-e)

Nice one (I used to love my Olympia, probably more than any other writing tool I ever owned) :)

blank looseleaf (a particular kind of heavier printer paper), and a springback binder to hold it all. Sometimes I use a fountain pen,

I was heavy into Filofaxes in the 80s and 90s. It was/is so practical! I still have one but it has dropped out of favor when I switched to the Zettelkasten note taking system as I don’t need a binder anymore (it uses index cards) and I would not want to use something else nowadays.

but my writing isn’t particularly beautiful.

Min is trash, that’s fine I still can manage to read myself…most of the time.

By “journaling” I do it as a kind of braindump on an as-needed basis. Pure stream-of-consciousness without any pressure to make it coherent, organized, or eloquent. I don’t do this every day, but I end up writing once per week-to-10-days.

That’s great. Even more so if you have found a rhythm that is suiting you!

Real nice brand of notebooks :)

but I have a hard time keeping it a daily habit.

Failing is ok, and part of the process. As long as you’re fine with that idea, you’re dramatically increasing your chances to keep going back at it. Otherwise, you will feel bad for not doing it, when there is no need to, and you won’t want to reopen your notebook. At least, based on my (decades long) personal experience ;)

I use nb on my PCs

What is nb?

Just in case, I wrote a little more in details about my impression, what I like and don’t like, on my blog (ignore the beginning of the post if you’re only interested in Filen itself) ;)

that’s how I understand it.

Data is encrypted during transfer and also on their cloud, using a key only you have access to.

in France, we have this saying ‘Nécesité fait loi’ which means you make do with what you have and to the best of your abilities. Also, my little finger is telling me quite a few EU countries would not mind a more authoritarian country entering the Council, a country that would then be used to tell France and Germany (and who knows, the warmly welcomed-back UK, one of these days) to go funk themselves. But I may be wrong.

You mean China? They are not part of NATO. Note that the election of Trump have almost made it crystal clear the USA does not care much about NATO anymore (they seem to only care about Ukraine’s underground which is not yet part of the EU (what a happy coincidence). So Turkish armed force ranking may very well already be a non-question just that we, NATO-members, have not been officially told so yet… In Which case China and Russia, and Turkey?, would be very happy.

Using them. Quite decent if a little bare bone. I wish for their notes app to be leaner to use but beside that it does exactly <hat it tells. Also, I quite like that, unlike so many clouds, I don’t have to move all my files and folders to a ‘filen’ folder, it can sync as many folders as one needs, even on external drives.

If you can, wait for their Black Friday deals, prices are fine but they’re even better then. They also offer more options for lifetime plans if you’re more interested than in monthly sub.

When creating you’re account, try to get an affiliate link before creating the account, as you will get double the free storage to begin with (20, instead of 10GB) and if you later decide to sub to/purchase a plan you have to keep that extra storage as a bonus. In case you need one, here is my affiliate link so you or anyone else using it can get the extra 10GB—and, nope, I won’t get anything out of it anymore, as I already did get all I was promised (up to 3x10GB more free storage), and yep, I did keep them l when I upgraded to one of their lifetime plan ;)

I remember the first time I read this strip. I was in awe. It’s still so effing good all those years later :)

Turkey has asked to join the EU already. It was denied last time but something tells me next time they may be very welcome instead.
(hint: Turkey has the second biggest army in NATO right after the USA and has the most active/quickly growing weapon/armament industry in Europe too)

I won’t cry for Musk, quite the contrary… But I also don’t know how important the EU as a market is for Tesla?