Desktop Calendar Software

How many of you write diary or journel every day? Do you use any software applications for this?

Public Comments

1. No I would never write any private feelings down on paper or computer for fear of them being seen. If I want someone to know my business, I'll tell them myself.
2. My Journal is in my head. The way I see it.. if I forget about something.. it wasn't that important to being with.
3. i do. i use the conventional way... DIARY!!!
4. I used to when I was younger. I used LiveJournal, I hardly update it now.
5. I had planned but never started
6. I don't now. I did, for several years. I abandoned the practice. I saw that much of the time I had spent wallowing in recounting the details of my not-especially-illuminating experience was ill-spent. I did gain from the experience, however. I hypothesized that journalizing around specific questions might be a good idea, when I noticed that the line of thought around an important question was buried in the sheer volume of insignificant crap that my daily journal consisted in. So I abstracted that, and began keeping several journals or notebooks that were very narrow in their aim. The ephemerality of electronic record-keeping was known to me, so I did not, repeat, did not seek for a software solution to the problem of working out questions. For fifty years, I've been examining questions on the relationship between the models of reality we hold in our skulls and the reality that puts dents in our skulls. Over that period, the means of recording impressions, thoughts, ruminations, speculations, etc., has changed. But the scribbles I've jotted down on paper, with a ballpoint or pencil, remain. It's an untidy heap, but it's intact. The jottings I recorded on the Apple II, the 386 machine I had, the Performa that died, etc.--gone, gone forever. Don't get too enchanted with 'software solutions.' They're perfectly adequate to ephemeral problems (by which I mean problems that one can reasonably hope to solve within the probably useful life of an electronic environment), most of the time, and sometimes they enable a solution more quickly than do the antediluvian methods I use, but I think they might be over-rated. Buy cheap small spiral bound notebooks, lots of them. Use them. Two bucks will buy you a journal you can keep on "How Can I Get Sex With Strangers?," for a lifetime. Is there a better bargain than that?