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i wish i could finish a notebook
i looove looking at people‘s notebooks and journals all scribbled out and lived in. i like buy a million notebooks and always think i’ll use them but really they’re just empty and stacked up in my closet. like have you seen some of these bullet journals and how artistic the formatting and pretty pictures and writing are?? it’s so creative, i think it’s hard for me to get things out of my brain and to like convey them onto or into some sort of material. my friend has the most beautiful writing i’ve ever seen and puts all of her thoughts into a journal and she thinks it’s completely normal whereas i think it’s something absolutely fantastic! it’s not anything less than extraordinary to me, i admire it terribly. i don’t know if it’s my attention-deficit or my bp-2 but the follow through is the hardest part for me. i know there’s definitely some low-confidence and accountability involved on my end that get in the way but that executive dysfunction just does me in. thank goodness for my people pleasing ways, i rarely have issues doing things if it’s for others, i barely think twice, like no questions asked, i just genuinely want to make everyone happy. i’m also really bad at establishing my own boundaries lol. but anyway!! journals and pretty writing and formatting, i love them so much.𐐪𐑂✿
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@kitten
Jan 27, 2025
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@daphnedidit
Only way I’ve ever gotten even close to finishing is notebook is going clutter first, substance later, fill those things with old receipts, tickets, candy wrappers, print out pictures from your phone. I think the physicality of trash holds memories better than anything I could put to paper anyways
Jan 27, 2025
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@kitten
daphnedidit that def sounds like my type of journal, i love this! it reminds me of keeping old stubs or rocks or dried flowers from walks! it never occurred to me that a journal could be more than writing and could be more tactile, that’s so brilliant, i think that actually works really well for my brain, like it clicks. thank you for this idea♥︎
Jan 27, 2025
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@swag
the only way youll be able to finish a notebook is to not aim for some aesthetic. a notebook is your mind, you cant force it into a mold. in the end your pages of messy handwriting and random doodles and to-do lists will look beautiful
Jan 27, 2025
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@kitten
swag i love this♡
Jan 27, 2025

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Ive tried journalling and keeping a diary. it never worked for me and it doesnt for a lot of people. it was probably cause i always felt like it needed to have an aesthetic or look like the ones on pinterest. But there arent any real expectations for a commonplace notebook. anything that comes to my mind, or i see something that i think is cool, i just write/draw/paste it into my notebook.
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@gayboicarti
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I do not have it together enough to do the regimented bullet journal thing nor am I equipped with a workshop of washi tape colors and stationary stickers for those beautiful journals that are more like scrapbooks than notes. What I am capable of is word vomiting directly into a random and unattractive notebook every passing thought, borrowed scrap of inspiration, or theoretical weekly exercise routine I am experimenting with. I think this lowbrow mess is the most rewarding type of journaling beyond doing it for an actual therapeutic purpose. When a bunch of librarians I work with told me this genre of journal has a name and a history going back to the Renaissance I was delighted. My common place books are ugly and valid!!
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@bumbythefool
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