I went on a long tangent but let me answer your specifically: I think its important to constantly experiment to see what works for you. Starting simple is usua

I went on a long tangent but let me answer your specifically: I think its important to constantly experiment to see what works for you. Starting simple is usually best I would take a moleskin notebook, and just treat 1 page of journalling = 1 day. Start doing this everyday. You'll soon realize how inefficient this is, and move onto something easier (e.g. a computer) for journalling But you learned an important lesson on journalling, which is the commitment and discipline. I still journal this way, specifically my workout training logs. 3 full days of workout = 1 page in my notebook. E.g. legs/abs (top of page), chest/triceps/shoulders(middle of page), and upperback/biceps (top of page). Whenever I think of structure, I usually think of universal ways to organize things. There's two ways to organize things - TIME - PLACE When you journal, or write blog posts, this is always TIME-based organization. This mean you organize things chronologically PLACE is when you take notes for some computer science online course. Its always organized by some folder. You can sort these A-Z, that's also a PLACE parameter too. Something that is organized by TIME, cannot also be organized by PLACE on the same level. You can organize a PLACE (moleskin notebook) for your journal, and then on a sublevel by TIME(each chronological page is new day) I hope this makes sense