[Closed] Anyone keep/kept a diary for any length of time?

Not a daily diary, but my blog only came about because I used to keep little journals of some of my longer walks/rides. These serve as a bit of a memory-jogger. I found notes I'd taken during a walk of the West Highland Way many years ago and it was both amusing and sobering to read some of my thoughts 🙂

I'm not sure I'd have enough stuff worth recording on a more regular basis.

Nowadays some of my emails I wrote some 10-15 years ago are a kind of diary

I have been doing a photo a day project for the last 6 years, and usually put a few words on each one about what I have been upto. Not much, perhaps a paragraph or a line or two.

It's quite nice to look back over!

Started 1st Jan 2010 and it has become so much a part of my life - it was almost started as a response to being in a really bad place and fighting my way out of it, we lost my Mum and Gran along the way and had the birth of 3 children, a divorce and a marriage. Some of the pictures are epic masterpieces, some are pictures of cats... some are absolute dross... but all of them tell a bit of a story. It's something I hope to look back over as years go by and that (my children and perhaps those who follow) will be able to look back on and learn a bit about me.

Flickr keeps loosing pictures which is annoying, but they all live on in Facebook and perhaps I will find another outlet to host them too.

Twitter. I tweet a lot, 9000+ tweets, not as I care who reads it but I find it very cathartic to write stuff down. I kind of see it as a diary of sorts.

My dad did. Looks like 50 odd years worth.

Haven taken a quick squint through a couple of them I'm not sure the a National Museum will be beating a path to our door... Maybe I should try the 50's and 60's one.

I never make it out of January personally....

Looking back through my records,I made my first diary entry on Jan 1 1973.I am still to make another entry (in the diary).

If I have to try and work out what I was doing and when for any point over the last 13 years I have to go through my invoices.

My nan has kept one for over 60 years, with record of pretty much anything that happens...

I've kept a work diary for thirty years now- jobs I'm doing and materials used, jobs I've been to price, phone numbers and email addresses etc. I've kept a record of my bike rides in the same diaries for the past three/four years. Never looked back on them but they're stored away for when nostalgia grips!

I've kept a diary for years, only jot down events or such like but like to look back now and then and see what I was doing years ago. Quite worrying how quickly time passes.Reading an old diary transports you instantly back to that time. Electronic diaries don't have the same feel but I do use the phone diary as well because it actually reminds you of upcoming events.I even have diaries from when I was a Kid-I'm nearly 61 now!

I found two or three years worth of diaries my mum wrote during the war when she was in the FANY - I really must carry on trying to decipher her shocking handwriting and get them typed up.

Well the Brexshitters will soon be knocking on our door to ship MrsJ back home so I've suggested to her that she passes the time hiding in a secret cupboard with writing a diary. Could be a money spinner at some point.

I write a journal and have used various methods over the years, latest and probably the best I've used is http://dayoneapp.com/

It's [purely for therapeutic reasons, not a log of stuff done, just a short pause each day to reflect and evaluate. I write a few things to be grateful for and a few goals for the day, plus some thoughts, that's it.
The benefits are huge.

I've been keeping a diary since 2003 or so. Originally a written diary but I started using my PC for it in 2005 when I broke my collarbone and recovered the ability to type sooner than I did the ability to write.

It is very dull but useful for reminding myself about when things happened.

Yep..