Tweet Journaling

I’ve tried a number of online journals.  I use Evernote as a tool to keep ideas, my GTD system, and to record my thoughts as I read through the Bible.  Besides that though, I like the idea of recording the events of the day in a journal.  Before the electronic age, I’d use a composition book.  In all my years of writing though, I would rarely go back to look at what I wrote.  As we moved from place to place, I’d eventually get tired of lugging all those journals with me and would eventually send them to the dump (hmmm, I wonder if there was anything incriminating in them for the tabloids to get a hold of once I become famous).  I tried Oh Life for a while.  I liked that it sent an e-mail reminder and that I could journal and reply by e-mail as well.  I also liked that it would send a past journal entry with the e-mail reminder to let me know what happened in the past.  After a while though, I’d end up just ignoring the e-mail reminders and they would pile up in my inbox or my trash (depending on how diligently I followed GTD).

Since then, I’ve discovered and have regularly (about 2 weeks now) used a site called 280daily.  This site also sends e-mail reminders on a daily basis.  Unlike Oh Life, though, you must log into the site (by clicking a link) to make an entry.  It will also show you the previous day’s entry, the previous week’s entry, and a random entry from the past.  This program works better for me simply because it limits my entries to 280 characters max.  In essence, it takes down the mental barrier that you have to write a lot to make an entry.  It also takes away the barrier of needing to read a lot when looking at previous journal entries. Your entries are also completely searchable and can be easily exported.

Do you journal or use an online journal?