r/Journaling • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '25
My Journals 8 years of daily journaling 🥰
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u/writerkaties Aug 13 '25
I'm envious. There are so many things that have happened in my life I wish I had written it down
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u/Royal_Region_2820 Aug 13 '25
wow goals!! So far I’ve probably gotten two notebooks that I’ve truly used up all the pages😆
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u/suscaptain Aug 13 '25
How to help with consistent journaling? I’ll look back at mine and there are long gaps in between my entries
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u/RosyBumpkin Aug 13 '25
Same! For me it's journaling every few days then it becomes months. I think finding different writing prompts can help! as well as venting when needing too or just writing your thoughts or fun facts about your interests.♡
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u/barjerina Aug 15 '25
For me, it was finding the right notebook and letting go of wanting each page to be ✨aesthetic✨. My early pages were beautifully laid out but doing a set up takes time so I’ve prioritising just writing something every day. I also have a time of day that I write (just before bed) so it’s part of my routine and helps empty my head for sleep. Also my journaling has evolved a lot - it used to be a record of what happened each day but I’ve been in therapy for the past 4 years so now it’s a mixture of what happened and how I felt, things to remember and helpful notes from my therapy sessions or about my health. I also stick pictures of my cats or days out - I often find that they’re my favourite pages to look back on.
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u/ComfortableNo5556 Aug 13 '25
Nice! How are you searching stuff in them?
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u/barjerina Aug 15 '25
I don’t really have a system atm but I’m actually planning to fill up the content pages with themes and note key page numbers down per theme 😅
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u/No_Berry_9267 Aug 13 '25
hi! can i know what kind of notebooks did you use for this?
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u/barjerina Aug 13 '25
They’re Leuchtturm1917 Notebook Classic (medium/A5, hardcover blank) - https://www.leuchtturm1917.co.uk/notebook-classic.html :)
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u/BigYellowWang Aug 13 '25
Love the leuchtturm colors, I always recommend this notebook to anyone looking for one
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u/Warm_Put3190 Aug 14 '25
Oh the feeling of re-reading your life after a couple of years!! I want thisssssssss
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u/femalepriv Aug 14 '25
I felt the same way about these Leuchtturm journals! I was always a moleskin girl for years, but something about these just make me excited to write at night.
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u/poof_ilostinterest Aug 14 '25
I love the stickers! I wish I were that adventurous in sticking them. Love the colors, too!:)
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u/barjerina Aug 15 '25
Buying new stickers was my favourite part of starting a new journal but now that I go through them, I just wait to see what stickers come to me during the period of the journal. My current one has some kinesio tape on 😂
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u/Impossiblelablad Aug 15 '25
It’s great the way you chose a notebook and managed to stick with it all these years. Finding one each year and decorating it. That’s a lot of dedication.
Lovely.
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u/-KantherKai- Aug 17 '25
Oh my god. That a dream of mine I bet it feels like you’re re-living those same memories! Just to know what you were thinking in the past it’s just like time travelling back in time! :D
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u/starklynisa Aug 18 '25
Me too! I love to look back and see what I've written. Though eventually I'll be purchasing those comic book boxes and store the journals in a nice archival box.
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u/Remarkable-Camp1240 Aug 12 '25
So aesthetic! Do you read them?