Comments on: Notebooks and planners (Paperblanks review)

By: Kate Darktea

Kate Darktea — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:10:17 +0000

In reply to Jill. No, there is something about holding a pen that helps me write. I think I want to edit more if I use a keyboard.

By: Jill

Jill — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:29:00 +0000

Hi Kate

Thank you for your reply. I have tried journalling on my computer but I don’t feel it’s the same. I may have to just use a spiral pad and tear out pages.

Does online journalling not work for you?

By: Kate Darktea

Kate Darktea — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:39:26 +0000

In reply to Jill. Hello Jill, Thank your for your comment and question. I am lucky that I trust my family not to read my diaries, I've written them for 25 years and I've never read themselves so I'm not sure what I'd feel if someone else did. Have you thought about keeping a digital diary, either on your computer or online? I have used the software LifeJournal before although I prefer to write by hand. Or online there are some suggestions here I tried Oh Life for a while, but again prefer to keep a diary by hand. In terms of the Paperblank diaries, I think it would be difficult to tear out pages because the pages are bound in folded sheets, so if you tear one page out you will loosen the structure of the other pages. I carried my A6 Paperblank diary in my hand bag on and off for 8 months and although it shows wear on the corners it is still very robust and looking in one piece. Have you at other manufacturers to see if you can find some pretty spiral bound ones, maybe Paperchase or maybe personalising your own like here

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 11:16:03 +0000

Hi Kate, I’ve just come across your blog with interest. I am a journal keeper though I destroyed my old ones in a fit of paranoia about them possibly being seen, just a random fear and I now regret it. However, I still have that worry so decided last year, on the advice of a friend who started doing the same thing, to keep a visual diary, I use cheap A4 exercise books which are study and good value and write in events of each day and photos/tickets etc, I may write a brief note about how I am feeling but don’t go into detail. Its totally non private and anyone can read it as far as I am concerned. However, I do miss journaling as in writing when I feel like it and getting things off my chest aswell. But I still worry about anyone possibly reading this sort of writing and taking it the wrong way. For instance when I am mad with someone the only the way I can deal with it is to write it down, even though it may be negative, I just have to put what I feel and it may not be pretty but then once I calm down I don’t want to keep that entry as I feel different then and guilty for what I have written. I have thought about keeping a spiral notebook for this purpose and just ripping out any entries I don’t want to keep but I do love pretty notebooks such as Paperblanks which are my favourite. However, they seem too pretty to rant in and it would be a shame to rip out pages. Also they don’t seem very thick so do they last a long time? I would hope to think so as they are expensive for a notebook. I would favour the A6 one that I could carry around with no weight. What are your thoughts on this? I don’t want to rant in my visual diary as that is just for daily events. Would it be worth getting a Paperblanks or just a cheaper spiral book?

Yours

Jill