Recommend me a journaling system. What have worked for you? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social to c/adhd@lemmy.world

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I want to take daily notes to keep track of my tasks, achievements, thoughts and appointments.

The problem is that every time I start journaling, I'm initially very motivated.

However, after one or two months, I get bored with the app or system and either switch to another one or completely abandon it.

I appreciate any advice or insights.

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[-] Mastema@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

If you are looking for an electronic system, I recommend Obsidian or the similar, but free Logseq. As you tag entries it builds a node graph of how your thoughts are connected, which my ADHD really enjoys adding to.

[-] aksdb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

SiYuan or Affine. Both have daily notes and normal notes. You can move and reference blocks between documents. That way I can start unstructured (just bullet points in a daily note) and then later either add cross references or start moving it into structured notes directly.

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