The hottest Journaling Substack posts right now

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About the daily creative prompts 💌

#The100DayProject Newsletter • 511 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🎨 Art & Illustration Creativity Inspiration Journaling Self-care Community
  1. The daily creative prompts offer practical tips, creative exercises, journaling prompts, and self-care practices to enhance your creative process and motivation.
  2. You do not need to be participating in the project to receive the prompts; they are like a daily creative love letter for anyone interested.
  3. Becoming a paid subscriber provides a daily prompt for all 100 days of the project, access to past prompts, and supports the project's sustainability.

Why Handwritten Letters Are 'The Most Significant Memorial' You Can Leave Behind

The Profile • 825 implied HN points • 14 Jan 24
🎭️ Culture Profiles Journaling Entrepreneurs
  1. The Profile newsletter features stories of interesting individuals like the Chipotle founder and a billionaire with unique backgrounds.
  2. The act of writing letters and journaling can be a powerful way to preserve memories and communicate thoughts for the future.
  3. Handwritten letters have a unique human touch that technology cannot fully replicate, making them significant memorials in today's digital age.

The Encyclopedia of Happiness

Why is this interesting? • 1930 implied HN points • 06 Jun 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Mental health Self-reflection Journaling
  1. Practicing gratitude journaling can help shift your focus to the positive and enhance self-understanding over time.
  2. Keeping a digital record of daily reflections allows for easy access, searchability, and deep self-reflection.
  3. Discovering consistent patterns of joy in your past can inform present and future decisions towards a happier life.
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Can you write yourself right?

Your Midlife Matters with Alana Kirk, the Midlife Coach • 39 implied HN points • 11 Feb 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Self-care Journaling Midlife Therapy Emotions
  1. In times of struggle, reaching out for help, therapy, and self-reflection can be key to rebuilding and reconnecting with oneself.
  2. Journaling, even if just a few words a day, is a powerful tool for self-discovery and processing emotions.
  3. Building a consistent journaling habit, whether morning, evening, or in moments of need, can transform your relationship with yourself and empower you to live authentically.

The Mirror To Excellence: Unleashing Your Potential Through Self-Reflection

PeopleStorming • 39 implied HN points • 18 Dec 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Self-Improvement Coaching Journaling Reflection Mental health
  1. Self-reflection is a powerful tool for leaders to understand themselves, improve skills, make better decisions, and build relationships.
  2. Regular self-reflection by leaders correlates with being seen as effective, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment.
  3. Tools like Year Compass, Gibbs Reflective Cycle, and Journaling Prompts can help kickstart self-reflection, even without a coach.

Track your growth

BK's Essays • 1 HN point • 05 Apr 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Journaling Self-Improvement Career development
  1. Tracking your progress, daily wins, and learnings can boost your confidence and improve discussions with others.
  2. Documenting your daily tasks helps keep you organized, assists in writing reports, and prepares you for manager meetings.
  3. Setting aside time regularly to journal highs, lows, and discussion points can help you observe your growth and identify areas for improvement.

How I Journal, 1000 Days In

tbg/public • 2 HN points • 26 Mar 24
🏥 Health & Wellness Journaling Reflection Personal Development Diary
  1. Maintaining a journal can be challenging, but reducing friction and using voice input can make it easier and more effective.
  2. Experimenting with transcription services or tools can significantly improve the process of journaling by reducing errors and increasing efficiency.
  3. Future improvements in journaling might involve using AI to create conversational entries, making it a more interactive and insightful experience.

How AI Can Enhance Daily Journaling

Thoughts on Living • 19 implied HN points • 12 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Journaling Therapy Tech development
  1. Daily introspective journaling offers immense benefits like improved narrative thinking and communication.
  2. Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance journaling by providing individualized writing prompts and acting as a journaling assistant.
  3. LLMs bring a new dynamic to reviewing past journal entries, automating the process of generating insights and asking specific questions for self-reflection.

It’s Business Time

The False Consensus Effect • 19 implied HN points • 08 Jan 22
🎨 Art & Illustration Painting Drawing Journaling Creative Expression
  1. The theme of failure in business is a common thread throughout the text, emphasizing the challenges and pressure associated with it.
  2. The importance of pursuing art without solely focusing on profit, as highlighted through references to Thoreau's philosophy and personal experiences.
  3. Reflections on the past and the impact of great thinkers like Thoreau, contrasting it with modern society's values and behaviors.

How to Journal

Thoughts on Living • 0 implied HN points • 14 Apr 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Journaling Self-Improvement Meditation
  1. There are two main types of journaling: introspective and practical.
  2. Introspective journaling focuses on inner thoughts and emotions, while practical journaling is goal-oriented.
  3. Examples of introspective journaling include Daily Morning Pages, while practical journaling involves methods like bullet journaling and goal planning.

Musings on depression, engineering, startuping.

A Perfectly Cromulent Software Engineer • 0 implied HN points • 03 Aug 21
🏥 Health & Wellness Depression Therapy Journaling Meditation
  1. Therapy often suggests journaling as a way to start the healing process and gain clarity in the chaos of everyday life.
  2. Journaling is highly personal, acting as a sanctuary for thoughts that may not always need to be revisited.
  3. The author navigates the intersection of sharing thoughts through writing, deciding which ones are worth sharing and which are best left private.