How I Use Stuff: Day One

App: Day One Cost: Free with a $34.99/year Pro plan My journaling workflow has evolved a lot over the past few years. My very first entry in Day One is from June 21, 2012, but I didn’t start keeping a regular journal till early November 2015, shortly after I quit drinking. I turned to keeping a journal as a way to organize my thoughts and feelings in a place that I knew was private and non-judgmental. Since then, my usage has largely stayed the same, although I’ve been able to be much more consistent in the past year. I’ve also added a number of smaller semi-automated entries to my practice. The Workflow As of this writing, I have a grand total of 2,144 entries stored in Day One. Those entries are split up across a few different journals: Journal (1,191 Entries) This is my “main” journal, and is where all of my free-form writing goes. I don’t have any hard and fast rules about this journal, and it’s littered with photos of graffiti I see while traveling, dumb jokes that I don’t feel…