Sorry for the late reply, you may have noticed my last message announcing I won’t be available a lot for the time being.

Little tip: For those who like Midori Traveler’s Notebook-style, it’s super easy and way cheaper to make them. There is a bunch of tutorials on YouTube, like this one. I made a few ones with scraps of saddlery leather someone gave me. Well…someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone who gave it to me ;)

That’s a great suggestion!

I would add that a DIY journal also makes one’s journal feel incredibly more personal. At least, that’s how it felt to me every time I made my own. Like you suggests, no need to learn anything special or expensive and even using scraps it will feel unique. I would encourage anyone to give it a chance.

My last handmade journal, dating back a couple years ago, was exactly that: a few stapled sheets of paper with a nice cover made out of recycled cardboard (from a sturdy pasta package :p). The paper I used for the pages was a few sheets of mix-media smooth A4 paper from Clairefontaine I folded in two (being smooth making it great for writing with a fountain pen, and fine for my watercolor sketches) :p

I don’t think I’m a worthy replacement for you :-D

;)

Don’t feel sorry, it’s great that you wanted to give it a chance, I appreciate it. I will keep the repo available, if anyone wants to use it (here, or anywhere else).

There is no issue either if no one can post regularly around here as the community will simply fall a sleep, like it once was, up until someone shows up willing to give it another chance. Or maybe not and it would just mean that journaling is too much of a niche topic for Lemmy’s limited actual user base? That we can’t tell, but at least we have tried to make it a more lively community.

BTW, if anyone is looking for a more active journaling community, I updated the OP with a link to our cousin from r/journaling. With their 2 million or so user base, they’ve a lot more going on.

Thx :)

It’s sad to hear that you need to take time off from this community but I can understand not having the time. I’d like to wish you all the best for your personal matters.

Thx, a lot. I have no clear idea how much or even how long this business will take so I’d rather not promise anything I won’t be able to hold. I will do my best to keep posting, though ;)

I may post a weekly thread if I can think of something interesting. I’d like to keep the weekly thread going, because it is fun.

I created a repo which contains all the source files you need to create a new illustration (it also contains the banner illustration and the community icon). They are SVG files (a standard/open format) created using Inkscape (a free vector illustration app available for Linux, Windows and Mac), the font you will need if you want to keep the same design is called ‘Annie use your telescope’, it’s free.

BTW, I had prepared an illustration for the WT#13 already( it(s just that I could not find the time to write the post). It’s in the exports folder) feel free to use it if the theme inspires you: beginning without spending too much, as I do think too many people don’t realize how cheap it can be to journal be it analog or digital. You’re more than welcome to use or to not use it. If you don’t I’ll still try to publish it as a standard post, later on… as soon as I can ;)

Also, would you want to become Moderator? Not that there is a lot of of work but it may come handy and you get a shiny badge :p

I quit doing that… 4 or 5 years ago (started doing it in late 70s) ;)

Pour faire gagner du temps, je me suis déjà emballé moi-même et j’attends sagement qu’on me migre avec les autres données ;)

Bon courage aux admins.

Thinking about it now, this can probably seriously challenge a kid’s faith in their abilities, and rob them of a sense of accomplishment.

I literally took that as a personal challenge, and then started getting better ;)

This was so much kid-me. I was so frustrated comparing my ‘finished’ model planes with the box art. Still, I kept building and painting them :p

J’espère que malgré tout que vous resterez avec nous. :)

Si on devait se quitter les uns les autres dès qu’il y a la moindre friction (version tout public de ‘avoir une couille dans le potage’), de un y aurait beaucoup trop de claquements de portes dans ce monde, et ensuite on vivrait tous bien seuls ;)

Je suis surtout curieux de savoir ce qui cause les soucis (enfin, si c’est intelligible par un incompétent moi)

cool (et curieux de savoir ce qui merdouille) ;)

OK,merci ça ma rassure… Enfin, non c’est pas ce que je veux dire mais au moins je sais que c’est pas mon ordi qui a une nouvelle crise ;)

In those sad and stupid times, more than ever, we need Calvin and Hobbes. Thx.

Shhh, don’t spoil the next episode ;)

Alors j’ai le plaisir de confirmer avoir suivi ledit conseil ;)

C’est quoi le(s) conseil(s)?

PS: je suis là, si ça compte encore?

I had indeed noticed the constant derisive comments regarding Americans,

May I humbly object that without numbers to confirm the mentioned anti-American bias (I have no idea on the question myself, and I have no desire to start such a study either) but without any data of how many comments have been posted, how many have been analyzed, and where they were posted, what % of those were blatantly anti-US and even how is defined that ‘anti-americanism’—and I don’t mean a few selected examples, I mean real stats—all of this is nothing but personal opinions that may indeed be correct, but can also be completely not correct.

It not only depends one’s own sensibility it also depends where one is looking at and what they’re looking for

I mean, would I read content from say an instance like hexbear I’m pretty sure I would find a lot more anti-US comments (but I would also find a lot more anti-anything, and overall braindead-shit) but if I was making the odd decision to eat shit myself, I would not complain it taste like, well, shit.

But maybe I’m just another of those anti-Americans? Maybe not.

Edit: typos and clarifications.

oups, wrong account :p

The question was not for me, but maybe I can share my pov:

In my opinion most of this overlaps with PKMS. What things belong in a PKMS that don’t go in a journal and vice versa?

There is no hard-coded rule and everythign go go in either one. But I think you already noticed the difference yourself: it’s all about the purpose. Which to me is very different in one and in the other. My journal is about free writing while the Zettel is about connecting (and maybe managing) stuff.

In my journal, I do not try to connect anything, or to manage it in anyway beside the dates. I write freely, a few words or a dozen pages if need be and I sketch. In my Zettel, each notion or idea has its own card and since it’s analog (real paper cards) each note is also space-limited (I can’t write dozen of pages on a single A6 card), which helps me a lot to either summarize more any idea that is not short enough, or will force me to split it into as many logical/meaningful independent units (and in as many cards) as needed so I can then later play with them more freely.

That Zettel is not something I will ever read linearly from first to last card, unlike my journal. It’s only there to help me re-read those cards while I mix (a selection of) them in different/unexpected ways, and therefore create new ideas, aka new connections.

I consider my journal fully linear while my Zettel is non-linear, but they both contain the same kind of things: stuff I’m interested in enough to be willing to write about. I will just not write the same way and not with the same objective.

Already looked into Zettelkasten awhile ago. Seems cool but I am getting by just fine,

It’s just there if you need it. What’s great though is that you try it (and use it too) very simply without much effort.

especially because there’d be a cost to redoing my PKMS that way,

You don’t need to ‘redo’ all your existing content to begin with. You simply need to start using your Zettel with new ideas/projects and it will slowly, organically grow. Say, the next book you start reading, you decide to take your reading notes in the Zettel, and then your own ideas, you put them in the Zettel too, and so on. It will work with you, at your own pace and it will respect your own limits. But, clearly, you don’t need to use it at all, it’s just there if you want to give it a go ;)

It can also very easily evolve with you and your workflow and adapt to any change in the way you work. My numbering system has changed a lot since I started using it (as my cards changed too, I went from A7 to A6)… That said, I never had to renumber or rewrite a single card, I don’t need to. I simply reference old cards by their old numbering scheme and new ones by their new system, they co-exist in peace and harmony. At least with my analog Zettel, that’s how it works (without ever forcing me to do anything I don’t want or I would consider wasted time)

All of that to say: don’t think you will need to redo all the work. You can if you feel like it but you also can just move on. That being said, it’s clear the Zettel is just tool among many ;)

Edit: sorry, answered with my mod account, instead of my ‘user’ account :/

They might change in the future but I have not found a way either, so :(

I could have answered here, that may have been more logical but, yeah, I have yet to understand how exactly that cross posting thing works, and how I’m supposed to be using it. So, if anyone wants to read my answer it’s posted as a comment over there… Yeah, I also have to figure out how to make an instance-agnostic link to a specific comment, too.