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I don't keep a personal journal but I take a lot of notes, mostly for "retrospective analysis, tracking my goals" and my ideas. I use Evernote.

• panglott 10y ago
  Evernote is my commonplace book. I started with TiddlyWiki and Wiki on a Stick before Evernote, and I might use a different app or methodology if I was starting now. The ability to link notes together was very useful in the Wiki, and part of the reason I moved to Evernote, but I use it much less these days. I only do regular tracking of two data points: books I've read (a simple list in Evernote) by year, and board games I've played against a human opponent (on BoardGameGeek). Whenever I have an idea or thought I want to remember and expand on, I post it as a note to Evernote. Then as my interest in it continues, I revisit, expand, or revise each post. Some of these have grown to thousands of words or whole notebooks unto themselves.