I’ve been using phone and laptop with markdown journals synced between them. I’d love to do analog journaling but my handwriting. I love being able to sync the files using syncthing from my Mac to android phone. Can go out and write at coffee shops or whatever. Some day may go to analog. I’m used to writing in markdown apps though. This way just works for me.

Both!

I go through phases of preferring one over the other so I tend to print the digital entries (usually scrapped into arty spreads) and add them to a Filofax binder so everything is all in one cohesive volume.

In theory it means I can use whatever paper I have to hand but it turns out I’m a paper snob so I still have blank unwanted notebooks lying around that didn’t pass muster.

My idea is to encourage people in participating more by pushing a weekly theme. It’s an invitation, not an obligation. Feel free to comment about anything else related to journaling, or to start your own thread ;)

Smart idea.

Digital. Always. Especially because I can password lock those in a way I can’t with the notebooks I have on hand, I’d have to go out of my way to buy some special thing with a lock. While yes, my phone or laptop is very expensive but I already own it so no new purchase.

I use a typewriter (a Triumph Gabriele-e), blank looseleaf (a particular kind of heavier printer paper), and a springback binder to hold it all. Sometimes I use a fountain pen, but my writing isn’t particularly beautiful.

By “journaling” I do it as a kind of braindump on an as-needed basis. Pure stream-of-consciousness without any pressure to make it coherent, organized, or eloquent. I don’t do this every day, but I end up writing once per week-to-10-days.

I have a separate (paper) planner and digital info-repository, Joplin: https://joplinapp.org/

I have a Leuchtturm1917 for a bullet journal, but I have a hard time keeping it a daily habit. I use nb on my PCs, but that’s more for writing (recipes, etc.)

I’ve been journaling since the late 70s, I started as a child and I’m an analog journaler. That being said, I’m also curious and always willing to experiment with new tools and I’ve used many. Some I’ve been using them for many years because them and I we worked great together. Tools ranging from the typewriter to the computer, the smartphone and the tablet. I’ve also used tape recorders (be it standard cassettes or the mini ultra portable ones, the MP3 player or, here again, the phone). I still own a mini recorder I use from time to time, it’s a cool device but the sound is so… meh, at best. In the end, I’ve always come back to good old pen and paper. It feels like home to me.

The longest affair I’ve had it’s with DayOne (Mac/iOS/Web). I remember switching to it almost the day it was realized, I can’t recall the year but back then the iPhone was still more or less a new product and the app itself was a one time purchase (no subscription) and was made by a small independent company. It was wo great I purchased the Mac version when it was released. It was groundbreakingly refreshing, and great, and cool, and so effing nice to use. I’m smiling just thinking about it. It felt almost as intuitive as using pen and and paper. I loved DayOne. As a long time user, I never was asked to pay when they switched to the subscription model, which is really nice gesture (I would still be able to use it without paying to this day) but I also realized the company changing hands (it’s now owned by the same that own… WordPress) was not going in the direction I wanted. So I slowly, and hesitantly, quit using Day One. It took me a few years to finally decide I had enough of the app as it was and to decide to fully commit back to pen and paper. I’ve not had any other serious affair since then, just a few flirts ;)