Meta Journaling 👽
Review of my journaling practice
Every few months my journal runs out of empty pages, prompting me to start a new one. It’s a perfect opportunity to look back through my old journal and reflect on how to improve my journaling practice. Let’s do it.
A few raw ideas:
Create a theme / intention for my journal. I decided to call my previous one “Surrendering to Effortlessness”. I’m not quite sure about the new one yet, although a few ideas are brewing.
The relationship between my digital journaling and organic* journaling is quite rocky. I don’t have any specific insights how to improve it right now, but I’ll keep it in mind for the following months.
I’d like to create a beautiful cover page for my journal. It feels like a powerful ritual. [update : I did.]
Keep my journal on the table—use it to take meeting notes. I love the process and it’s much more time effective than doing it after the meeting.
I love how my Minimalist Journaling System is evolving. The newest iteration gives me a lot of pleasure:
Keep shortening content loops—as in getting ideas from pages of my journal into existence. I’ve seen a lot of progress in that area in the last two months, but there’s still a lot of space for improvement. MindJuggling is a good place to do it.
Find a better purpose for the index page. I have zero need for an index page. I tried using it for giving headlines to my weeks and tracking growth of subscribers on JournalSmarter’s e-mail list, but it just doesn’t work. For now I’ll keep the page empty and see if something comes up.
It would be interesting to create an intentions page—write down my intentions for the next few months and then come back to it when I finish the journal. It might also serve as a focusing exercise—I could review the page to remind myself of what’s important to me. I have a few focusing practices already, but I guess it never hurts to have more.
For months now I’ve been meaning to create my equivalent to Silvia’s heath tracker. There are a few very specific metrics I’d like to track regularly and I feel that the MJS is not the right space to do it. I never find the time/energy to get to do it, but who knows—maybe now it’s the time?
* I really like the idea of “digital <> organic” instead of “digital <> analogue”.
