Journaling is the practice of keeping a written record of thoughts, experiences, or observations. It can serve as a tool for reflection, memory, and personal growth. At its simplest, journaling means putting pen to paper (or fingers to keys) to capture the passing flow of life - wikipedia 
# Thoughts
Writing-in-wiki time? So write for some period - 42 min? Then a quick show and tell. Could be part of a daily routine on certain planned days, or we can do more than one at a time for a half-day - once a week? Possible?
Is this form a regular ritual part of becoming... becoming a Hitchhiker, or a Vision Fish? Shall we combine this with a Pledge and make this the Critical Path for the Vision Fish?
# Types of Journaling Well-known forms of practice include the daily diary, where entries record events and feelings of each day. Reflective Journaling emphasizes insight and learning, often used in education or therapy. Creative Journaling blends writing with sketches, poems, or fragments. [[Bullet Journaling introduces structure, with lists, tasks, and goals woven into the record.
# Tools In software-supported journaling, the medium shapes the method: certain tools encourage daily cadence, others graph connections between notes, some enforce creative constraints, and others protect privacy with strong encryption. Below are well-known, workshop-friendly forms tied to specific tools and workflows.
# Daily Journals
Plain, multimedia, or prompts:
- **Day One** — cross-platform private diary with media, tags, maps, and prompts. Good for image-rich and audio entries - Day One
- **Apple Journal** — iPhone/iPad/Mac app with on-device suggestions, media, and wellbeing integrations; useful for quick reflective captures - Apple Journal
# Standard Notes
End-to-end encrypted notes; set up a daily template for private text-only journaling - Standard Notes
# Creative Constraint Journals
To beat resistance
- **750 Words** — “morning pages” style daily 750-word freewrite with streaks and gentle stats - 750 Words
- **The Most Dangerous Writing App** — type nonstop or lose your text; ideal for sprinting past the inner editor - The Most Dangerous Writing App
# Zettelkasten-style Journaling (idea networks)
- **Obsidian** — Markdown vault with backlinks; pair Daily Notes with Zettelkasten IDs and link emergent ideas for later drafts - Obsidian and Obsidian Plugins
- **Logseq** — outliner + knowledge graph; use Daily Journals and page/block links to evolve a thinking log into essays - Logseq
- **Roam Research** — daily-notes-first graph notebook; great for associative journaling and topic weaving - Roam Research
- **Zettlr** — FOSS Markdown workbench with built-in Zettelkasten IDs; good for academic or long-form pipelines - Zettlr
- **Org-mode + Org-roam (Emacs)** — plain-text journal with capture templates, datetrees, and a Zettelkasten graph - Org-mode and Org-roam
# Voice-led Journaling (dictate, then refine)
- **Otter** — record and transcribe voice sessions; for spoken reflection and interview-style journals - Otter
- **AudioPen** — speak ideas and get readable summaries for later editing - AudioPen
**Personal Wiki Journals (shareable, forkable)** - **TiddlyWiki** — single-file personal wiki you can carry and customize; great for modular, linked journal “tiddlers.” https://tiddlywiki.com TiddlyWiki - **Federated Wiki** — journal as hypercards you and others can fork and remix across sites. https://fed.wiki.org/federated-wiki.html Federated Wiki
# See - Writing Workshop - Zettelkasten - Morning Pages and Digital Gardens - Personal Knowledge Graphs