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Hi, I have finally decided to get my journals scanned by a printing company. Someone came round earlier to pick them up. That's it, decision made. I wanted rid of the clutter and the worry about them being found (as explained in previous posts).
However, I wonder how to journal from now on. My first thought was to journal directly onto the computer as I can type far quicker than I can write but I do like writing journals also and may not always have my laptop with me so I was thinking I can handwrite a journal and then once its full scan it myself, the task won't be as labourious as scanning all my old journals myself, not if I just do one at a time. There is still the privacy issue though of a physical journal laying around or being in my bag.
Any suggestions anyone? I don't want any more journals to cause any clutter or worry.
SteveinMN
11-12-12, 6:58pm
If it were me, I would journal primarily on my computer and keep a token journal for use when I just want to apply pen to paper or want to capture a thought when the laptop is not around. I would not wait until the paper journal was full before scanning, though -- scan it within a day or two of the writing and then destroy the page(s). That may keep the task more manageable and certainly would leave fewer journal entries for anyone else to find.
Simplemind
11-12-12, 7:00pm
Citygirl you are a genius. I had never thought of scanning journals. You have set me free................
Steve, thanks for your reply, seems like a good idea, more private too.
Simplemind, sorry but I am confused, what do you mean by I have set you free?
I tend to write a journal page. Read it. Then tear it up or burn it right away.
Most of what I write I wouldn't want anyone else to read.....ever.
Getting something down by pen on paper helps me work through things. I guess it slows my thought pattern.
Reading it right after I write helps me and burning/tearing it releases me from it.
Citygirl, do you go back and read old journals? Did the scanning company that is doing the work for you say no one would 'sneak a peak'? Once scanned are you keeping them on your computer or putting a disk in a safe-deposit box or what?
I found out when I was in college that my mom had read all my journals from high school. I've just never been able to leave anything laying around that I thought someone might find and read......and yet I have no problems laying it all out there on message boards....go figure.
Lovely solution, citygirl!
I have a password-protected journal document on my laptop for super-private, not-comfortable-with-anyone-finding-this things (there aren't many...I guess that shows how little I care what others think in my old age :) )
The rest I put into my handwritten journal. It feels good to me to write longhand sometimes.
(fwiw, I understand, but I've never burned a journal entry. I learn from reading them. I have great sympathy for the girl I was when I was younger, and it helps me have compassion for both my now-self and others.)
Float on, I sometimes read my journal entries, I tend to just pick a book up at random and look through, though not very often but I just like to know the journals are still there if you know what I mean. Once they are scanned I will put them on my external hard drive, though I am trying to find out a way of putting a password on the drive or a folder to make it more secure.
Puglogic, I do like writing longhand too I must admit and sometimes wonder about keeping a hand written journal for general things I don't mind people seeing but my initial idea was to get it all electronic and save on space too.
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