[HN Gopher] Five Minute Journal - Daily Journal Techniques and Tips ___________________________________________________________________ Five Minute Journal - Daily Journal Techniques and Tips Author : bribri Score : 68 points Date : 2021-09-14 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (briansunter.com) (TXT) w3m dump (briansunter.com) | jackconsidine wrote: | Great tips! I also do "3 things I've learned" that day, which | could be an interesting fact, an esoteric code thing, or | something random in the news. | | This is a rewarding one to look back on | tinyprojects wrote: | I've built a service that lets your create an online blog from | your paper journal. I use it daily, and I find I'm a lot more | consistent with journaling knowing others are reading my writing. | I also write way more without all the tech distractions: | | https://paperwebsite.com | stanislavb wrote: | It seems original - blogging from handwritten notes. My first | thought was - how accurate is it? i.e. if I'm to blog-post from | a note, automagically, I'd love to have the confidence that | there are not typos/OCR-issues. | | p.s. I've submitted it to SaaSHub as well | https://www.saashub.com/paper-website | estitesc wrote: | Just created a step by step audio flow for this if anyone is | interested, great way to actually do it: | | https://share.autopilot.ooo/3pwRRKRmP7CueLG48 | Wronnay wrote: | I also journal since multiple years, and I feel that this many | questions create too much pressure. | | My best approach was simply writing down bullet points of stuff | which I found noticeable. | renarl wrote: | I've also found that journaling without prompts is much more | sustainable for me. Now, for the second year, I'm doing daily | morning pages of at least 750 words. It takes me about 30 | minutes of free-flow writing. I can write whatever comes, and | if nothing comes, I write that. It's helped me to become much | more self-aware about what's going on in my mind and also | mostly solved my fear of starting from a blank page. | | Initially, I used https://750words.com/ which helped to create | a routine. But now I'm using obsidian daily notes with a word | counter plugin. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-09-14 23:00 UTC)