/lit/ - Literature★

i bought one and used it for a month and promptly forgot about it a decade later, mostly because everything that was put onto paper was disjointed as fuck. the last days using it essentially came down to

>today was okay

>see above

>see above

>see above

>see above

>see above

>see above

that diary is likely now somewhere in somebody's basement, rotting away next to a water heater and canned fruits

even besides that, most of what i put into it was generic "the asphalt was hot"-tier thoughts (eg. "i haven't seen my cat recently", or "i played some video game"), with absolutely nothing deeply personal to me.

i've considered opening up a private blog thing, but trying to set up a minimal website by scratch is fucking painful, yet i'd rather not use wordpress / blogger / tumblr / squarespace though.

Mediawiki installation tucked away for various projects, including a diary.

>Has your little sister ever read it and mocked you?

She hacking skills of a English lit professor self appointed as a systems administrator. So … no.

>>10369 (OP)

http://www.bookbindersdesign.com/en/articles/11/note-books#&&page=3&matrix5=176&matrix8=564

192 blank, 17x20cm pages lasts me about a year at the moment

>Has your little sister ever read it and mocked you?

lel

Few muthafuckers know it exists and that's the way it will evermore stay

If the thought is important, I will want to be able to search for it by a criteria other than date.

hello rato

>>10380

I don't think I ever forget an important thought. Not sure why.

>>10382

>important

there's your answer

>>10369 (OP)

for a time i used to write down stuff on a notebook or two.

eventually i burned all of that.

>>10369 (OP)

I always thought diarys were for faggots.

>>10369 (OP)

Protip OP: It's a journal not a diary

I write in mine every few weeks or so, mostly about how I feel, what I want and what I'm doing about it

Not casual observations like >>10372 but just what I think about things, so maybe when I'm older I wont forget about my life

I don't keep a diary or a journal, because I don't think my life is interesting enough. I've given it a shot but I never end up with anything interesting to write. I know people who can go on for pages about how their day went. I know one woman who writes in her journal every day so she can vent, otherwise she would start beating the shit out of people.

I like to keep a commonplace book, however. If you don't know, a commonplace book is a place where you can write down thoughts, ideas, and notes, usually related to a specific topic. I would use mine for story ideas, interesting thoughts, math problems, theorems, phone numbers and important notes, ideas for language-building, weird names, etcetera. Really anything that I think I should think about later or which I think would make an interesting project to work on later.

If I have one I always use a pocket-sized hardcover Moleskine notebook. Between the quality of the pages and the handy-dandy pocket for storing ripped-out pages, I have yet to find a journal that I like better. Unfortunately Moleskines are kind of considered a semi-luxury item and they can be expensive if you go through a lot of them, but I don't so it's usually not a problem for me.

I don't keep a diary or a journal. I used to try, but my life has never been interesting enough for me to record to printed media. I know people who can write for pages on how their day went. I know one woman who writes in her journal every day because if she doesn't have anywhere to vent she's going to hurt someone. I can't do it.

What I do have is a commonplace book. For those of you who don't know, a commonplace book is where you jot dot down notes and ideas, usually relating to a theme like your job. I use mine to record random story ideas, bizarre names, character creation concepts, mathematical algorithms, phone numbers, important notes, basically anything that I think I should review for a later project. I don't update it often; in fact I kind of fall in and out of even carrying it around with me.

If I have one, it's always a pocket-sized blank page Moleskine notebook. The pages are the best quality and the pocket for storing pages is surprisingly handy. I have yet to find a notebook I like more than Moleskine. The problem is they're considered kind of semi-luxury items, so they can be expensive if you go through a lot of them, but I don't so it's not a problem for me.

>>10369 (OP)

i force myself to write at least one paragraph a day.

on the first week every paragraph was really small, now after almost one month sometimes i write pages. (I'm using word btw)

on the beginning i would write only on the end of the day, but now i write every time i think about a conclusion of something in my life, or if i have a good idea about something, or about a memory, or my impressions about something i read, or about the beauty of something or someone, etc…

i also write about the things that happen in my monotonous little life, and theres a plenty of thing i just need to keep an eye on the things around me

i try to keep a dialogue involving me and the yesterday me, i try to find conclusions for the past things i wrote (which aren't necessarily conclusive or "full stops" on the theme)

one important aspect is that i never read what i wrote on the past (i'll read maybe one year after)

btw, i noticed that everyday that i play video-games these notes become extremely vague, as if i didn't lived that day so i'm playing vidya two times a week only

I think the same things most of the time.

>>10372

Check out Penzu.

>>10983

get a rite n rain

>>11043

proper sage

I am constantly, continually writing about what I am thinking about, even now I have a LibreOffice document open. I rarely talk about myself or what is around me.

When I was younger and much more into writing (about 12-15) I used to buy cheap spiralbound notebooks and write in them about my day.

When I moved house the other day (currently 23 years old) I found those notebooks and spent an afternoon reading through them. I don't think anyone else read them, but being able to read them myself was nice. It hit me with a wave of nostalgia way better than any feelings I get from seeing old TV shows being rebooted, and let me remember some old friends who aren't around anymore (for better or worse).

So they're good for reflection, I guess.

I do keep a diary. Nothing fancy, I just write stupid thoughts. Because I suffer from low attention span, it helps me to remember where the fuck I was yesterday.

I noticed that my current self is quite an annoying whiner. I'm trying to change that.

>>10369 (OP)

Hello Rato