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Every Habit Journal is designed to make the process of keeping a daily journal as easy as possible. It starts with a section called One Line Per Day. It starts with a section called One Line Per Day. At the top of each One Line Per Day page is space for a journaling prompt. One of the essential points to how to start journaling isn’t the writing itself, it’s taking the time to do it. And doing it like it is an important part of your day – every day. Make it one of your daily goals. I mean it – no excuses. Start your daily journal off on the right foot by scheduling your writing for a set time every day.
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Life Journal is a beautiful and easy to use journal / electronic diary application. Life Journal is encrypted by default for maximum privacy and can be password protected for security.
If you are a Day One user on iOS or Mac OSX, Life Journal can be used on Windows PCs to edit your Day One entries (it allows importing of your Day One v2 Data).
Our customers love the amazing features and functionality of Life Journal. If you are looking for an easy to use daily journal/diary you will love Life Journal. Join the many satisfied customers and begin your journaling journey today!
Our customers love the amazing features and functionality of Life Journal. If you are looking for an easy to use daily journal/diary you will love Life Journal. Join the many satisfied customers and begin your journaling journey today!
Key Features of Life Journal:
A Gorgeous User Interface: A beautiful, secure and easy to use interface that makes journal writing a pleasure. It comes with great features that our customers love:
- Create / edit / review your entries in a distraction free interface
- Attach an image to your entry to make your memory visual
- You can use the location and date/time from images having EXIF data
- Use our template manager to use existing templates(e.g Five Minute Journal Template, Pure Gratitude Template, Pure Productivity Template, Food Diary, Exercise Diary, etc.) or create your own template with the template editor.
- Use one of over 600 writing prompts for when you get stuck.
- On location enabled PCs, entries are automatically tagged with location data so you can remember where you created them. You can also manually assign a location to entries.
- Capture accurate, location-aware weather information for your entries.
- Have your entries read back to you using Text To Speech (Read-Aloud)
- Favorite your entries (*star* your entries)
- Assign Tags to your entries to help you categorize your entries (multiple tags can be assigned).
- Share part or all of your entries via Twitter and Email (but only if you want to)
- Use Reminders to help you get more regular with your journal / diary entries.
- Your entries are encrypted (using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption with a 256 bit key - the same level used by the NSA) for maximum privacy.
- Assign a password for maximum security.
- Customize the look and feel of the application using themes/styles. (Get 15 more beautiful styles with our Life Journal Theme/Style Pack).
Location Viewer: If your PC has a location sensor, Life Journal automatically captures and stores your location information with the entry. If you don't have a location sensor, you can set a default value in the Settings screen. You can also manually set the location of an entry by going into the location screen. View/Edit the location where you created the entry on a map.
Image Carousel: View and navigate the images across all your entries. A distraction free view of only the images across your entries. Each entry's image can also be viewed along with the image's EXIF data (if available)
Use Templates and Prompts: Life Journal comes with over 600 prompts for those times when you are stuck about what to write. Just insert a prompt and start writing. Life Journal also comes with some templates (e.g. Five Minute Journal, Food Diary, Exercise Diary, etc.) that you can use to kick start your writing. Best of all, it comes with a template editor - so you can create your own templates - or edit existing templates.
Capture Weather Information: Life Journal comes with the ability to capture hyper-local weather information at the time and location of creating the entry. If you change the date/time of the entry, the weather for the new date/time is automatically updated for you.
Export Your Entry: You can export any entry to HTML (or plain text) and have it open in a browser (or text editor) - beautifully formatted and ready for you to print or save as a PDF and share.
Manage your settings: Set up Life Journal to your specific needs.
- Password protect your entries to keep your journal / diary secure.
- Change the font-face and font-size of the entry text - write the way you like.
- Automatically detects presence of Dropbox and allows you to sync your encrypted entries.
- Automatically detects Day One Classic on Dropbox and allows you to sync your data. Data synced to Day One Classic is not encrypted (to maintain compatibility)
- Pick from one of 8 different themes & styles that change the look and feel of the application. Get 15 more themes with our Life Journal Theme/Style Pack.
- Set a default location to tag your entries with location and weather data (used in case you do not have a location sensor).
- Write more regularly by enabling reminders.
Search: Powerful and fast search capabilities that allow you to find entries within your journal / diary..
.. by specified keywords or text
.. containing a specified tag
.. in a specified month (for example, enter Jan 2017 in the search bar)
.. that have images (click the image in the status bar)
.. that have been *starred* (click the star in the status bar)
.. on the same day and month in prior years (e.g. enter 31 Dec or click the calendar button in the status bar)
.. by specified keywords or text
.. containing a specified tag
.. in a specified month (for example, enter Jan 2017 in the search bar)
.. that have images (click the image in the status bar)
.. that have been *starred* (click the star in the status bar)
.. on the same day and month in prior years (e.g. enter 31 Dec or click the calendar button in the status bar)
Tags Manager: Create new tags, as well as assign/remove the tags for an entry. This will help you categorize your entries. Assign multiple tags to your entries.
Data Sync and Import:
- Sync your data with Day One Classic folder via Dropbox - bidirectionally, seamlessly in the background
- Sync your data with Dropbox for a backup mechanism (and future mobile functionality)
- Import your Day One v2 data into Life Journal so you can keep it local and even edit/search it
Share content: You can share part or all of your entry text via Twitter or Email from right within the application. You are in control of what gets shared.
Miscellaneous Features:
- Application automatically checks for and downloads updates
- Life Journal automatically saves entries so you don't have to worry about losing your writing.
- Changing the date of an entry automatically re-sorts it. We also get the weather information for the new date/time!
- Application works great and looks beautiful on high resolution screens
- Product is regularly updated. (View the release/update notes)
- Highly responsive support - we use the product too!
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Recently, American film director Robert Rodriguez appeared on The Tim Ferriss Show and explained why and how he journals.
This piqued my interest.
Like many people, I’ve always wanted to journal daily, but like most people, I’ve struggled with consistency.
This wasn’t because I lacked the self-discipline to write; it’s because I didn’t know what to write about. I wasn’t a fan of writing stream-of-conscious thought; I wanted consistency in my writing…
I wanted a template.
So, I did what most people do: I turned to Google. I varied my search terms, but my results left me less than satisfied.
When I wasn’t met with “listicles” like, “7 Ways to Keep a Journal”, or encouraged to, “Just try it”, I was left with little to go on in terms of journaling templates. Kingdom rush hd 2 1 – 2d tower defense game.
I was left with one option: to draft my own journaling template.
Here’s what I came up with.
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Free Download: Get immediate access to my free Evernote journaling templates so you never miss a day again.
I currently journal once in the morning and once in the evening, and since using a journaling template, I’ve been consistent. I use Evernote to record my entries and use two tags: “Planner” for my morning journal and “Journal” for my evening Journal.
This is what my morning journal looks like:
Note: “TK” stands for “to come”. [1]
Every morning, I copy and paste the above template into a new note, date it and answer the following three questions:
1. “I am grateful for…” According to Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage, writing down three new things that you’re grateful for, for 21 days in a row, can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to work more optimistically and more successfully. [2]
2. “What would make today great?” I “borrowed” this from The Five-Minute Journal. Here, I write my five most important tasks for the day. This helps me distinguish the vital few tasks from the trivial many, and reminds me that only a few things really matter and I can’t do everything. [3]
3. “What’s ONE Thing I must accomplish today?” This is my focusing question. This, as Gary Keller argues in his book, The ONE Thing, is the best approach to getting what you want. If you want to achieve extraordinary results, you need to narrow your focus and allow what matters most to drive your day.
In the evening, my journal is more thorough:
This is an opportunity to review my day and improve what is already working. I have an alarm on my phone to trigger my journaling habit, and every evening, at 21:00, before shutting down my laptop for the day, I answer seven questions:
1. “What did I achieve today?” This question helps me identify whether I actually achieved what I set out to accomplish in the morning, or if I got sidetracked. One lesson I’ve learned from answering this question is it’s easy to overestimate what you think you can achieve in a day, but I remind myself it’s not what you achieve in a day, it’s what you achieve eventually. This is what really matters.
2. “What lessons did I learn?” This is my favourite question to answer. This is where you journal your “Aha!” moments. Answers can range from personal, “I learned how to say no to dessert”, to skill-based, “I learned how to remove plosives in an audio recording using Audacity”. The more thorough you are, here, the more you can return to it again and again and learn from it.
3. “What am I thankful for right now?” This is similar to Question #1 in my morning journal but with a rather unorthodox twist: I thank my problems and ask myself what’s great about them. This is an exercise I learned from Anthony Robbins in his book, Awaken the Giant Within and it’s called “The Problem Solving Question”.
Last week, for example, I accidently deleted an audio recording I had made. “What is great about this problem?” I asked myself. “Nothing!” I replied. But when I meditated on it, when I really thought about it, I realised my problem was great because I could make an improvement on the original. As Laura Ingalls Wilder writes, “There is good in everything, if only we look for it.”
4. “How am I feeling right now?” This is an opportunity for me to be vulnerable, to let my guard down, to be open without censoring myself. I’m generally pretty happy, but if I’m feeling a negative emotion, I’ll identify the cause by using a why drill. I’ll ask myself why I’m feeling the emotion, in question, five times. This helps me be at the cause, rather than the effect of my concern.
5. “What did I read today?” This pertains to any blog posts I clipped and/or books I’m reading. This helps me track my weekly goal of reading a book a week. [4]
6.“What are 3 amazing things that happened today?” I think it’s important to bookend your day by focusing on your “small wins.” “I said no to a dessert.” “I resisted the urge to give into temptation.” “I didn’t sleep in.” “I achieved my most important task.” … These tiny advantages build forward momentum and remind us that bigger achievements are within reach.
7. “How could I have made today better?” Many of us, when dissatisfied with our day, prefer to write it off, to move past it as quickly and quietly as possible. But by asking yourself how you could have made the day better, you’re forcing your brain to look for improvements. Your day may have been stressful, but don’t write it off until you’ve learned something from it. Look for ONE Thing you can do, either prevent it from happening again or to help you deal with it more effectively.
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Conclusion
This has been a departure from my usual writing style, but I wanted to write something personal, and give you an insight into how I journal and what I’m learning from it.
I consider it to be one of the best approaches to understanding your own psychology and documenting the changes you’re making in your life.
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You might argue it’s not for you, but I invite you to try, using my template as a model, before disregarding it completely.
Free Download: Get immediate access to my free Evernote journaling templates so you never miss a day again.
Footnotes
[1] This is a writing lesson I learned from Neil Strauss in his Creative Live interview with Tim Ferriss. You can watch it on YouTube here.[2] Shawn Achor talks about the research-backed benefits of journaling in his entertaining TEDx talk, The Happy Secret to Better Work. You can read my key takeaways here.[3] This is a lesson I learnt from Greg McKeown in his wonderful book, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. You can read my Kindle notes and highlights here.[4] I explain my whole approach to reading in this article: How to Read a Book a Week (It’s a Lot Easier Than You Think).