What medium to use as your journal

So far, we have covered what to journal, how to journal, and when to journal. But, now, let's take a look at what to use as your journal. 

Ask yourself this question: Do I prefer to write via hand or on a computer?

Then, ask yourself this question: Do I want my journals to last forever or not?

Then ask, Do I want to take the chance on losing my journals at any time (acts of God or theft)?

If you want to journal via hand, then take a look at the section below of Paper Journaling. 

If you want to journal via cell phone, tablet, laptop, or computer, take a look at the Digital Journaling section.

If you want your journals to last and be permanent, look at the Permanent and Lasing Journal section below. 

Paper Journaling

There are many different ways to do paper journaling.

Just remember paper and pens cost money and can be lost, stolen, or damaged  Also, the paper and ink do not hold up over time. For instance, anything other than black ink starts to fade in a matter of a couple of years. Black ink, too, will start to fade, but not like other colors of ink. Another thing to keep in mind is how paper journal take up space.

Here are a few suggestions of how to paper journal:

~ Blank book.

~ Loose-leaf sheets of paper

~ 3-ring binder and paper

~ Spiral notebooks

~ Composition books

~ Steno pads

~ 3 x 5 index cards

~ Legal pads

~ Scrapbook

~ Calendar or Planner

I recommend once a week typing them up in your computer so you have a lasting journal.. save it to the internet on the cloud and have a permanent journal. 

Digital Journaling

This is the type of journaling done on a cell, tablet, laptop, and/or computer. Here are some ways to journal with any of those devices:

~ Blank document (saved to Google Drive, the cloud, Box, DropBox, etc.)

~ Send daily emails to yourself

~ Google Docs

~ Keep a blog (public or private)

~ Penzu.com

~ On your online calendar/planner

~ Evernote (app)

~ ColorNote (app)

The Permanent and Lasting Journal

If you save your journals to your computer, cell, tablet, and/or computer, and to your hard-drive  it does not mean that you cannot lose your journals. They can still be lost. 

Therefore, I recommend saying them to your email, to Google Docs, to Box or DropBox, to Google Drive, your computer, AND external hard-drive. 

If you save them in the ways I just mentioned, and have a way for people to know to access them later (when you die), then, they are permanent and lasting journals. 

I cannot suggest this enough.

(Image Credit: Microsoft Images Online.)

~ Stacy Duplease