April Discussion Post

[lunabee34]

Tell everyone about the top five topics you write about (or chart, record, etc.) in your journal or planner. Pictures always encouraged!

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[lunabee34]

Top five topics:

To-Do lists (including appointments, due dates for student work, meetings and other events, grading, committee work, etc)

How much I weigh, what exercise I've done on a daily basis

Charting interstitial cystitis flare-ups and possible causes

Long term to-dos (getting rings resized, putting money into a CD, etc)

Monthly retrospectives

[independence1776]

My top five subjects…

This is more difficult than it sounds because I'm a text paper journaler who writes to make sense of her life. So "life" as a broad category.

A lot of the time I write things down that are bothering me and it usually helps.

Then there's the usual complaining about things I can't fix but need somewhere to vent that no one else can see.

Happy things.

Little things. One of the entries that still makes me smile is nothing more than me being joyful I had a fish dinner.

Writing-related stuff: not story ideas and the like, but celebrations (such as NaNoWriMo things) or angst that things aren't going well in whatever I'm working on. Or angst about writer's block. That's more common than I like.

[used_songs]

To do lists - always!

Cool words/phrases I've heard/read.

Lists of books, movies, songs, TV shows that someone has recommended that I check out. Same for games, websites, etc.

Sketches or doodles.

Sometimes little poems or bits of prose.

[thistleingrey]

This is a great question!

Day-specific work notes: to-do items from meetings, occasional snark

Bug (JIRA) numbers and short descriptions for current tasks on my radar, even though I receive email notices as well, because the journal's spatial aspect helps me find these important ones more easily; these are usually not tasks assigned to me for resolving

My tasks in progress and recently completed

Medium-term preparation: someone new will join, there's a national holiday, my kid's off school, a long-running project has a milestone, etc.

Knitting patterns under consideration--it may be an office-oriented journal, but I keep only the one :)

This year's journal is a Hobonichi Techo (English version). Next year's will probably not be--I'm considering a Stalogy 365Days. If anyone has +/- views on the 365Days, please share!

[fay_e]

Great topic! Thanks for posting

My top five subjects:
To do list

Events - outings and movies and nice lunches

Like reynardine I have tracking lists for each week of things I want to do on a daily basis. That's mostly health and productivity stuff like pomodoros

I'm also tracking exercise and energy levels, which I think of as two separate topics :D