What is a diary?

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I was thinking of buying a diary...but not to write about my thoughts and feelings, coz I feel that I'm too old for angst/ over analysis. I just need to keep a track of what I've been doing, what CDs I've bought, what books I've read, where I've been to, who I saw, what the weather was like etc..

So do you write things down in this way? Is it a bit strange? Or do you keep a personal diary of thoughts and etc?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

for a while i kept bullet point notes of what i did each day together with my overall mood during the time when i did these things.

it's quite handy now i read it all back, all these memories that are unlocked which otherwise would have stayed lodged somewhere in my head and never remembered.

I dunno why i stopped doing that, actually. Oh, when the diary started turning into "went to work", "slept", "posted to internet boards"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the idea of this, but i don't have the discipline to fill it in each day.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I know people who write down every book theyve read. I have tried to keep a listening diary but I got too self-conscious.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

PDA?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to keep diaries of what I'd been doing, books I'd been reading - with little summaries of the plot, so I wouldn't forget - and stuff I'd bought, but I always forgot to update them around March. I'd suddenly have an attack of guilt and go back to it, but there were always weeks of blank pages. So a few years ago I stopped altogether (which means I never know which day of the week is which date anymore): the new Redstone diary's so pretty I'm thinking of trying again, though.

― cis (cis), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to buy a diary today to keep a record of what happened in 2004. I just want to know, really, and I do think it'll make me do more interesting things so I don't have to put "slacked off at work, watched telly and waited in vain for someone to ask me to an AIM chat" every single day.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to keep a diary of all my sea fishing expeditions, so I could cross reference areas, weather, bait, times of day etc and decide which places were hot spots and such.

It didn't work, mainly because I am rub at sea fishing.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the idea of this, but i don't have the discipline to fill it in each day.

Yes, I have a diary where I can write down stuff that's too personal or private to write about in my blog. The last time I wrote an entry in it, though, was about 18 months ago.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the idea of an online diary...one that you could update from anywhere...wow...someone should totally do that

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(I've read that in some BDSM relationships, the dom makes the sub keep a diary of all their thoughts and feelings re the relationship. That could well be a good idea, whoever you are: it might force you to think more about what you're doing, why you think the way you do, and where the both of you are going.

Alternatively, it could be a bad idea. For the same reasons.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

we should start a diary to note down when threads are killed.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 30 December 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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