[signorovitch]

Responding to the actual content of the post… :P

Starting a long term commitment like journaling isn’t that hard. Just write something. There are a million apps and special notebooks to make it as easy as possible. I often hear people say staring is easy, maintaining is hard. Maintaining is also easy. Journaling doesn’t get harder with time. We often just underestimate how little your future self will care or value the same things current you does. It’s true that life gets in the way or a busy period will knock you out of your new habits. But starting again is still easy. Maintaining a journaling practice for a long time isn’t really that hard, it’s just hard to keep caring.

[em-bee]

jup, it's just habits. my journal is a plain text file in vim. no special apps, no reminders, and no rules on what to write. i write what seems significant. what i want to remember. stuff that i may want to look up later. since last year that includes what i spend money on, since a few days it's a todo list of things i want to do today. i track work hours, or even if nothing happened. that matters, because a missing entry more likely means that i forgot to write, not that there was nothing write about.