I've tried a couple of times to keep an actual paper journal. Every attempt fell flat after within the second or third week. Even online attempts with tools li

I've tried a couple of times to keep an actual paper journal. Every attempt fell flat after within the second or third week. Even online attempts with tools like Google Docs, didn't hold out. Last year (8 days short of exact) I started using the OhLife.com service. Oh Life will email you everyday at a set time of your choosing. All you do is reply to the email with your entry, you can even add a photo, and they store it away. The emails also come with excerpts from past entries. E.g. "Two weeks ago you wrote...". (You can turn this off) Finally, the service comes with export features when you care to leave. If you don't feel like writing anything for the day, just delete the email. When you get the next one tomorrow you can pick right back up. I still don't hit every day but I consistently at least recap the events in a week. You can probably directly correlate the length of my entries with how stressed out I am about something in my life. My reason for starting a journal is to slow down and reflect upon things when otherwise things are just too crazy. It helps both at the time of writing, and later if I care to read through things again with a clear mind. When you're stressed out you can do all manner of irrational things when you're not thinking things through clearly. Since starting, I've also picked up on writing about the pleasant things in my life. E.g. fun nights out with my gf and friends, vacations, funny things at work. Even when things seem dull and boring I'll at least throw it into a weekly recap.