My Two Journals

And yet, as much as I enjoy this handwritten journal, I still use Day One in the evenings. The two journals flow from different parts of my brain, though they work together in an interesting way.

This matches my experience. There are different flow states in different writing environments. Even within the same medium.

Before shelving it in its lovely slipcase alongside my other paper journals, I archived a PDF copy with the scanner app on my iPhone for safekeeping.

I’ve got a box full of journals that date back 20+ years. Digitizing them has been a long horizon idea. Something as simple as scanning them into PDFs using Notes on my iPhone hadn’t occurred to me as a minimal first step. I’m gonna take it.