Updating Your Journal With Your Text Messages
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As much as I love the idea of keeping a day-by-day unbroken string of entries in my daily diary, I admit I fail at it often. Sometimes a week (or more) will go by without me touching the book by my bed. Yes I know its perfectly alright to just pick up the book and start an entry for today and not worry about the days I missed, but it just feels untidy somehow. Today was such a day for me. I opened my diary and it has been exactly one week since my last entry. Not only that but I will have to say it was a pretty uneventful week because I couldn’t readily bring much of it back to my mind.
My normal process in this situation is to make a list of the days missed on a sheet of paper and work my way backwards, filling in the days that are freshest in my memory and eventually connecting back up to my last entry. Then I simply transcribe them into the diary. It worked okay at first. The weekend was still pretty fresh in my mind. Last week, however, was not in there for some reason.
That’s when I hit on this idea! I grabbed my phone and started flipping back through text messages! They turned out to be great little reminders of things I did with friends or places we ate, or things we talked about. I also found that these messages sparked other memories of the days that weren’t even in the messages. In no time at all I had reconstructed the week with short, but pertinent, entries.
Other places you might go to reconstruct some entries would be your email or your daily calendar. Sometimes all you need is a quick reminder of how the day went and the memories come flooding back in.






om having to remember where all the scraps of information lay, is to re establish the use of a desk journal. Of course you can go and purchase a wonderful, leather-bound book to do this. That might work for you. Personally I use a thick spiral notebook from the drugs store. Here’s my technique:
I think that most people see a journal as a wonderful handwritten log of events and thoughts. I guess that works for some people. But the thing to remember is a book can hold so much more than words. More than drawings even. Grab your tape and glue and fill the thing up!