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A place to discuss anything related to keeping a journal, a diary, a planner, a bullet journal, art/junk journal. Productivity, self-help, mindfulness, memory-keeping, creativity, project management or any other purpose.

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How often do you share things you journal with others? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the feelings you have written about, to a cool little doodle you did. And if you do share, with whom and why?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Pretty frequently, because I use my journal to think through things, so I actually come up some well thought out solutions sometimes.

Usually share this with anyone, as long as it's relevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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? ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Nope. I do not want to publicize my list of food brands ranked by my own personal preference or my list of books I should read. I might be a PKMS person and not a journal person but it still feels too personal to share—less because "oh how embarrassing!" and more because "okay who would even be interested besides a weird stalker?" the same way most people do not post what time they leave the house or eat or their bathroom habits.

I thought this might be a fun question because I was thinking: some people put thoughts and feelings in their journal, and was curious if that was enough for them or if they also try to share it with people. And if part of why I don't journal is because I share my thoughts and feelings with people, so I feel no need to write them down elsewhere. And then I thought maybe I could turn it into a more general question to help you with your community.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I share little things I print out that amuse me but nothing of the actual text. Keeping that private is a mix of being self conscious and wanting to keep the depths of my weirdness to myself; I feel like I’d have to give context for things and I don’t have the energy for that.