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A review by ablotial
Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That'll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together by Rachel Wilkerson Miller
4.0
I used to love journaling of all types -- I have all my diaries from middle school and high school up in a box somewhere, where I mostly talked about boys and hating everyone. In college, I flipped to online journaling with livejournal, where I've had multiple journals and run communities over the years. But as I've gotten older and had to start adulting more, I have less and less time to sit down and write an actual journal entry. This makes me sad, because I do like to go back and read my old journals every now and then, both for the memories (good AND bad) and to see how much I've changed and grown as a person.
Someone suggested "dot journaling" to me, and this book was super cheap on kindle, so I picked it up and read it in an evening. Although this is actually more of a to-do list than a journal -- while I can still flip back through and see the things that I did (or was supposed to do) at any given time, and they do give a kind of picture of a life, they don't include my thoughts and fears and inner monologue.
However, I still liked the concept, especially for work. Dot Journals are fast and easy (or, at least, they can be ... I did temporarily join a reddit community for them and some people spend So. MUCH. TIME. on them to make them beautiful. That kind of defeats the point for me, but whatever makes you happy). So at the beginning of 2019 I tried to use dot journaling exclusively at work to keep track of all the tasks I needed to do. It actually worked really well a lot of the time, but I still found it hard to keep up with. It lasted a few months, and then I'd fall off the train... but every time I got overwhelmed with stuff to do, I'd pull it out and start over. It is really helpful to get me through some of the more stressful periods at work.
Generally though, it's not for me for every day life. I just don't DO enough things outside of work to make it more useful than just having a Google Calendar. And since it's not really a "journal" it's not quite what I want.
What I *really* need is Queepsake for adults.
Someone suggested "dot journaling" to me, and this book was super cheap on kindle, so I picked it up and read it in an evening. Although this is actually more of a to-do list than a journal -- while I can still flip back through and see the things that I did (or was supposed to do) at any given time, and they do give a kind of picture of a life, they don't include my thoughts and fears and inner monologue.
However, I still liked the concept, especially for work. Dot Journals are fast and easy (or, at least, they can be ... I did temporarily join a reddit community for them and some people spend So. MUCH. TIME. on them to make them beautiful. That kind of defeats the point for me, but whatever makes you happy). So at the beginning of 2019 I tried to use dot journaling exclusively at work to keep track of all the tasks I needed to do. It actually worked really well a lot of the time, but I still found it hard to keep up with. It lasted a few months, and then I'd fall off the train... but every time I got overwhelmed with stuff to do, I'd pull it out and start over. It is really helpful to get me through some of the more stressful periods at work.
Generally though, it's not for me for every day life. I just don't DO enough things outside of work to make it more useful than just having a Google Calendar. And since it's not really a "journal" it's not quite what I want.
What I *really* need is Queepsake for adults.