[jborichevskiy]

I've been keeping a journal for about 4 years now. I try to write every 2-3 about anything and everything: ideas, habits, my feelings, events that happened, things that come to mind. I find it's an amazing tool for introspection and has made me much more aware of what I'm worried about.

I've written about this in more detail here: https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/journaling/

When I try to imagine my ideal journaling tool, I think it would be a desktop (and mobile) app with two distinct modes:

1. Distraction-free, focused entry. A blank entry and a blinking cursor. This is great for very open-ended writing where I have no idea where it will go - just stream of consciousness and following it. Usually in this mode I'm in a comfortable, quiet environment (my room at night, coffee shop, hotel).

2. Ideation/connection/writing mode. This is a hypothesis I've been meaning to test in more detail but I'd be curious to have a mode where as soon as I type a word or a phrase, I instantly see previous references to this top float up from below, links and references I've saved to the right, email discussions I've mentioned it in, tweets I've liked about it. Basically, frictionless access to other thoughts and formulations of the idea I'm thinking about to make writing about it easier. I don't know if this would actually help matters, but I am curious to try (or build) something like it.