Funny you ask this, my girlfriend was reading a biography about Lincoln and noted that it seemed like everyone kept a diary in those days. I said that I should

Funny you ask this, my girlfriend was reading a biography about Lincoln and noted that it seemed like everyone kept a diary in those days. I said that I should start keeping one in case I ever become famous. But seriously, I've thought about doing journaling for a long time and have never really done it in earnest. I keep copious work notes on a combination of a pen and paper notebook and a digital notebook. I've developed my own system for tracking tasks and notes over the years that works for me. Its not too unlike Bullet Journal except I don't do all of the monthly tracking stuff. I started a personal notes journal on my PC, but I only put goals and important ideas that I have in it. I haven't made a good habit of writing daily. I believe that a honest journal would consist of daily freewriting and recalling/reflecting on the events of the day. For my digital journals I wrote a couple of scripts for automatically entering in the dates. Used to use Evernote, but I dropped it after I started realizing it was a kind of shitty walled garden and it would be hard to get some of my notes out of it down the road. Plus they began restricting the amount of device for the free tier.