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| ====== Diaries ====== | ====== Diaries ====== |
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| **I write this in the hope that anyone reading it might be inspired to start diary writing if they don't already or to continue, and to discuss their process, if they do** | I write this in the hope that anyone reading it might be inspired to start diary writing if they don't already or to continue, and to discuss their process, if they do. |
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| | I like to store memories on paper, for later. Mundane daily life or exciting events.... |
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| ===== I keep a diary ===== | ===== I keep a diary ===== |
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| I like to store memories on paper, for later. Mundane daily life or exciting events. | |
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| I started in 1992, my mid-20's but then I let it lapse after a few inconsistent years of intermittent diary writing. Looking back the snatches of life I recorded from those days are (to me) fascinating and I regret not having kept it up. | I started in 1992, my mid-20's but then I let it lapse after a few inconsistent years of intermittent diary writing. Looking back the snatches of life I recorded from those days are (to me) fascinating and I regret not having kept it up. |
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| I started *bullet journaling* in 2016, a few days before my 50<sup>th</sup> birthday. | I started //bullet journaling// in 2016, a few days before my 50<sup>th</sup> birthday. |
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| {{:public:blog:bullet1.jpg?direct&300|my first bullet journal entry 22 February 2016}} | {{:public:blog:bullet1.jpg?direct&300|my first bullet journal entry 22 February 2016}} |
| I've been at it ever since. | I've been at it ever since. |
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| I'll be 60 shortly, so that's coming up to 10 year's worth of life captured, in 45 A-5 sized Volumes (I'm now on **Volume 46**) | I'm 60 now, so that's 10 year's worth of life captured, in 46 A-5 sized Volumes (I'm now on **Volume 47**) |
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| * [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/we-are-at-war/ | We are at War]] | * [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/we-are-at-war/ | We are at War]] |
| * [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/private-battles/ | Private Battles]] | * [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/private-battles/ | Private Battles]] |
| * The diary of Jean Lucey Pratt [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/a-notable-woman/ | A Notable Woman]]. Jean was one of the Mass Observation diarists in the Wartime collections above (//anonymized as "Maggie Joy Blunt"//), but Jean also kept a separate diary covering her whole life, starting in 1925 aged 15 until she died in 1986. | * [[https://www.simongarfield.com/books/a-notable-woman/ | A Notable Woman]]. The diary of Jean Lucey Pratt. |
| | * Jean was one of the Mass Observation diarists in the Wartime collections above (//anonymized as "Maggie Joy Blunt"//), but Jean also kept a separate diary covering her whole life, starting in 1925 aged 15 until she died in 1986. |
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| ==== The Great Diary Project ==== | ==== The Great Diary Project ==== |
| ==== The American Diary Project ==== | ==== The American Diary Project ==== |
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| There is a similar project in the USA [The American Diary Project](https://americandiaryproject.com/) | |
| | There is a similar project in the USA [[https://americandiaryproject.com/ | The American Diary Project]] |
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| ==== Anne Lister ==== | ==== Anne Lister ==== |
| I'd love to see the books and look through the pages, and see how he indexed everything to make it searchable and to find anything within a few minutes. | I'd love to see the books and look through the pages, and see how he indexed everything to make it searchable and to find anything within a few minutes. |
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| * [[https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10777080.150-volumes-and-33000-pictures-meet-john-gadd-the-man-whos-written-britains-biggest-personal-diary/ | John Gadd article, Bournemouth Echo] | * [[https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/10777080.150-volumes-and-33000-pictures-meet-john-gadd-the-man-whos-written-britains-biggest-personal-diary/ | John Gadd article, Bournemouth Echo]] |
| * [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387793/Dear-diary--Man-83-shows-Britains-biggest-personal-journal-hes-writing-66-years-times-size-War-Peace.html | John Gadd article, Daily Mail] | * [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2387793/Dear-diary--Man-83-shows-Britains-biggest-personal-journal-hes-writing-66-years-times-size-War-Peace.html | John Gadd article, Daily Mail]] |
| * [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07zyhq2 | BBC Digital Human, Oct 2016 ]] | * [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07zyhq2 | BBC Digital Human, Oct 2016 ]] |
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| * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Journaling/ | reddit : /r/Journaling ]] | * [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Journaling/ | reddit : /r/Journaling ]] |
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