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Hello! First time in the doing anything like this, so please bear with me! There isn’t a place for people to post or talk about their journaling, which can be very helpful to others. So I decided to make one … even though I’ve never done anything remotely close to this. ———————————————————————— Welcome

This is a community for all journal related things prompts, questions, showing off, really anything relating to journaling. Always on the move, show off your everyday carry journal set up. Don’t write down paragraphs upon paragraphs of words, no worries! No matter how you journal or how you decide to keep your journal this community is for anyone who wants to share or just excited to see others set ups. ———————————————————————— Rules

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Due to the nature of journaling posts can be very personal. Anyone who is found to be overly negative or discriminatory towards another member within this community will receive repercussions relative to the situation. Have basic etiquette, this community is based on positivity and that will remain my goal throughout.

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Spam will be considered as posting the same content more than three times. ———————————————————————— Note

As this is my first time creating a community please let me know if there are any rules I should implement. I am completely open to feedback and criticism as long as it’s for the best interest of the community.

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Hey! I’ve written a digital journal for the last couple of years. Backup there wasn’t a problem. But I struggled with finding the „perfect tool“ and switched from app to app and back until I just took a notebook and a fountain pen and started writing couple of months ago.

My question now is: what’s a good way to achieve and protect a full journal physically and what’s your personal backup strategy to back up your journal in a digital way so that you still have your memories in case of your house burning down or another catastrophic event.

Thank you in advance!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve made a system of using Plotter ring journals a week at time and then running them through my scansnap into Keep It on my Mac. Keep It uses the native Apple handwriting recognition, which is shockingly quite good. Then I clip them together and put them into a monthly accordion file made for storing canceled checks. Works really well for me!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Nice - way more organized than my 'system'. I stripped the cover off a generic set of A6 binder rings, attached them to a more solid cover that my leather binder will hold effectively, and go in weekly or so to pull out used pages/refill blanks. The written ones go in a literal box, always on top with the punched side facing a given direction, which keeps them chronological.

What it does not do is offer any kind of backup, or OCR/search function if I've no idea when I wrote something that I need to track down.

What systems I have are all consistently evolving on the fly, mostly slowly.