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annotating diary entries
chronology is overrated!!!! retrospection is an important part of any experience!!! also great for leaving little reviews at the end of particularly riveting entries, so that you know which ones are worth a reread when you flip through out of morbid curiosity years down the line
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@nikau
Aug 11, 2024
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@bootybutt
i just re-read my journal from the last year and used a different color pen to leave little notes to past me, since last me was writing this for future me. and in this way i time travel between selves and feel whole
Aug 18, 2024
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@nikau
bootybutt so awesome wowowow how long did u wait before returning to it???
Aug 20, 2024
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@bootybutt
nikau it’s never purposeful to go back through them, last time one of them fell off the shelf when i bumped it and out of curiosity i opened it. once i do that i can’t put it down, and then i feel weird for a while, like im back there, time travel not for the faint of heart
Jan 16, 2025
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@sofe
Ok now THIS is one of the most interesting takes I’ve seen in a while. Do you use sticky notes or just leave space in your journals???
Aug 12, 2024
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@nikau
sofe a bit of both!!! i write in the margins a lot, but i write pretty densely in my journal so there isn’t much real estate for notes, so i also stick in a lot of paper based souvenirs that flip up to reveal notes scrawled on the back
Aug 12, 2024
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@sofe
nikau ok huge yes to the paper artifact flaps… I have been doing that for years but didn’t ever think of doing it retroactively. You are revolutionary I will have to think deeply on this
Aug 12, 2024
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@hotassbeat
I used to have a method of journalling where i’d open to a random blank page and just start there. chronology is overrated and ill tell you, it’s a much more interesting read few years later In this random order. kind of like a puzzle sometimes to figure out timelines which can be fun
Aug 12, 2024
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@nikau
hotassbeat omg freaking extreme!! one day i will b as radically achronological as u……..
Aug 12, 2024
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@marxinista
oh this might have changed my lifees i need to do this
Aug 11, 2024
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