The former have great value to me now as it’s a way to help me process the current season in life, and the latter have great value to me in the future as they are a way to look back on memories and significant events.įor a few months I tried to use Path as a way to capture the little memories. But how many of my tweets or Instagram photos are worth revisiting 40 years from now? Some of them, but surely not all of them.Īnd this is where I see the difference between the deeply personal issues that I write about in my Moleskine and the memories that I log on my iPhone and iPad. Through Twitter, Instagram, Path, Stamped, email, and other such apps, my days are meticulously logged with over-filtered pictures of the sandwich I ordered for lunch and tweets about the friends I’m out to coffee with. In a way, perhaps I am more regimented than my Great Uncle Howard was. I very much enjoy the time when I leave my standard-issue Apple nerd gadgets in the other room and sit down with the analog to write about what’s currently on my mind. My journals have always been logged with pen and paper. I’m not as regimented or peculiar as my Great Uncle Howard was, but I have been keeping a personal journal for the past 20 years. 40 years worth of Uncle Howard’s daily local weather report. He had 8 of them, and they were all filled with what the weather had been that day. They were those thick, index-card-sized, 5-year diaries that allot just a few lines of space per day. When my Great Uncle Howard passed away, they found a shoebox in his closet that was full of journals.
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