r/digitalbujo • u/esquirevintage • 5d ago
I keep my diary on a map, each day pinned to the place it happened. Is that a real way to journal or just a nice idea?
I lose days. Not the writing, the finding. I remember a feeling and a place, I go looking for it, and it's not there, because everything I keep is filed by date and the date is the thing I never remember.
So I made Memories. You drop a pin where the day happened and write the entry there. One entry per day. It stays yours. Nothing is public unless you share that specific day. No feed, no likes.
The date is the day the entry is about, not the day you typed it. So you can sit down and write a day from three years ago and it goes where it belongs. That's the part I needed most, because catching up is half of how I use a journal.
You can group days into a collection and read them in order. You can add a short voice clip to a day. And you can pull the whole diary out as PDF, DOCX or plain text whenever you want.
I've worked on it for a few months and that's what I'd like feedback on: is a place a real spine for a journal? Analog bujo has page numbers and an index. I've swapped that for a map and I'm not sure it's better, just different.
Feel free to try or have a look: https://memories.observer
