A month of journalling

In a recent digest I linked to Herman’s post post about resurfacing old blogs. In that entry, the posts he chose to resurface were the ones about his journalling[1] journey, and this inspired me to have a go. Of course, I’ve tried it before, but I’ve never got very far. I did used to be a fairly keen bullet journaller (in the original, minimalist sense of a particular method for organising daily lists of bullet points), but I don’t feel that counts as much. The originator Ryder Caroll calls it a “mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system”, but if I’m honest, to me it was more of a productivity system. To my surprise, by the end of today I’ll have written an entry for every day for a whole month. Not all of them were written on the day, admittedly. If I was busy or tired that evening, I just did it the next morning. But the entries for each day are there. I don’t think I’ve ever kept up a journalling habit this long. I’ve tried both paper and digital journalling, and…