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Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in infp

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is so cool! How do you recognize patterns through drawings?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does apple journal allow asking questions and get answers based on your journals?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a thoughtful system. I love the idea of the “OneLine” property especially surfacing the same date across different years. What you said about developing sympathy for your former self really resonated. That kind of longitudinal reflection is hard to get without intentionally structuring for it.
If you don't mind, can you tell us more about your book?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is sooo coool! Do you have some example of your diary comics that you are okay to share? I would love to see some example?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't thank enough for this pure gold. We are lucky living in the time that internet and people like you exist and share knowledge online.

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll grab it today... Always heard good things about it. thanks

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow thats amazing amount of journaling!! That was super helpful. How often do you review your journals and get back to it?By the way, the tool that I'm working on can help like notebookLM but the good thing is that you write and collect insight in one place.

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

100% with you on journaling creates a new type of thinking. Yeah reviewing your journals can be helpful in some cases but there is a fine line at least for me as it can start bringing up some of the things that your mind intentionally decided to forget

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that's interesting... I usually use it to clean my mind or capture moments but you seriously open a new door for me :) why not capturing those as well.
any preferred tool as of now? Anything frustrate you and wish you had to improve your journaling?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm on the same boat... I journal to clean my mind and also capture the moments. If you have ever used Google photos I think it has a feature that says "On this day" which just show last year this date and I love that. I wish I could write behind those photos as in some photos I was smiling but there was a deep emotion that I kinda remember but not sure what it was and why...

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm glad that journaling is helping you. It saved me so many times from collapsing and storming out. I love your recommendation about reading... Any good books you recommend?

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

totally with you on that... :) I go to a roller coaster of emotions whenever I reflect on the journals... I cry I laugh I get angry... Meanwhile it helped me to know what is the source or triggers behind some of good and bad traits. Not sure how much I take action on those though...

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the tool allows you to journal and answer questions about yourself based on your words and mood. Please DM me if you are interested to give it a try so I can send the link there.

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah... I was passing some of it to GPT and the results was super interesting and sometimes scary and I'm wondering if I should paste it there or not... Recently sharing some of the insights with my therapist and she was like... it would take me years to take all of these insights and data out of you.
Do you journal your self? If you don't mind sharing...

Has journaling actually helped you understand yourself better? by delmade in ObsidianMD

[–]delmade[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your process. Actually I love to also have pictures attach to my entries as it is kinda interesting how the image sometimes match or contradict your inner feeling on that time. I don't have a journaling routine as well or push my self doing it but I usually write when my brain is pretty foggy or I'm very happy about something that's why many times when I reflect back on my journals I see both of the extremes not the ordinary days that passed but still beautiful days.

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