Journaling Project

I’ve started a new experimental journaling project using Evernote. The aim isn’t necessarily to help with blogging, but I suspect that will be a side-effect. I’ve tried several different ways of doing journaling and I always allow it to be a Big Deal ™. I allow myself to become obsessed with *what* I’m going to post, *how* it will sound, *what* the audience is, etc to the point that I never post anything.

This new project is essentially to keep a detailed (how detailed is still to be determined) private journal of my activities throughout the day without any expectation that it will ever become anything more than a list of things I did that day. My thinking with this is that if I spend all of my retentive energy with the initial-list making that I’ll be freer to take that information and actually do something with it. I can train myself to not filter the input, but filter the output so to speak.

The corollary to this project is that I’m consider trying  to write a weekly blog post summarizing the week in some way, most likely an actual narrative. This will be the public part of the journal that, when combined with the private part of the journal, tells the whole story. Depending whether you want the complete picture with all of the mundane details or just the reader’s digest version. If nothing else, it will be something I can share with my posterity.