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I go back and forth between digital and hand-written. Hand-written seems more thoughtful and I can more easily include diagrams (a lot of my journals are about

I go back and forth between digital and hand-written. Hand-written seems more thoughtful and I can more easily include diagrams (a lot of my journals are about game designs and how the game rules have been altered between playtests, so diagrams help illustrate the game there), but it just takes so damn long to write and my hand often cramped up. There'd be days I'd be writing for 90 minutes straight, the same amount of text I could type in probably a third of that time. I also eventually like to transcribe the handwritten to digital as well, so I'm typing it eventually anyway. Pandemic really fucked with the habit though, and so far I haven't been able to get back into the groove again. Maybe switching to handwritten again will help. Here are my stats by year: 2016(Hand):9K, 2017(Hand):47k, 2018(Hand):>9k (not all transcribed), 2019(Digital):123k, 2020(Digital):47k, 2021(Digital):11k, 2022(Digital):7.5k

whiskey14 4y ago
I think its absolutely fine to switch up mediums. Sometimes I think we get a bit caught up with the mentality of 'this is the way', but when it comes to thoughts getting them out however you can is what you need to. +1
criddell 4y ago
An iPad can work as a digital journal pretty well. With the Pencil you can handwrite on the days you want to handwrite and you can sketch. The days you want to type, you can do that as well. You can also paste in images, videos, sound recordings, or just about anything.
- SenHeng 4y ago
  Yup. Switched to the iPad Mini just for that 2nd gen pencil support.
tlavoie 4y ago
My usual preferences are digital-first; I'm quicker at it, and my writing is abysmal. I have started carrying a notebook in my backpack, because sometimes typing is just not convenient. I don't want to sit in some settings, poking at my phone, as it is both inefficient and anti-social in ways that scribbling in a note book isn't perceived to be. It's all pretty new to me, but I think the paper supplement to text interfaces works where it gets transcribed in some form later. The paper can be disposed of, I won't be keeping that once it's served its purpose.

whiskey14 4y ago

I think its absolutely fine to switch up mediums. Sometimes I think we get a bit caught up with the mentality of 'this is the way', but when it comes to thoughts getting them out however you can is what you need to. +1

criddell 4y ago

An iPad can work as a digital journal pretty well. With the Pencil you can handwrite on the days you want to handwrite and you can sketch. The days you want to type, you can do that as well. You can also paste in images, videos, sound recordings, or just about anything.

SenHeng 4y ago
Yup. Switched to the iPad Mini just for that 2nd gen pencil support.

tlavoie 4y ago

My usual preferences are digital-first; I'm quicker at it, and my writing is abysmal. I have started carrying a notebook in my backpack, because sometimes typing is just not convenient. I don't want to sit in some settings, poking at my phone, as it is both inefficient and anti-social in ways that scribbling in a note book isn't perceived to be. It's all pretty new to me, but I think the paper supplement to text interfaces works where it gets transcribed in some form later. The paper can be disposed of, I won't be keeping that once it's served its purpose.