Sometimes I fall in the rut of continuing to write about my days. But after this video it puts a new perspective of things you can write in your journal. Thank you!

I love hearing how others journal and what they journal about. I love the idea of memory keeping journaling and have been doing that for about 2 years . But I realized I need someplace else to write down my thoughts, feelings, and ideas so now I keep a second journal for that. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to do this and wish I had been journaling through my life.

I love that you have yours on full display. Mine are hidden as I’d be mortified about them being discovered 🤣. That being said, journaling is helping me become less apologetic about who I am

Thank you Hemingway, for helping me to see how I really want to use my Journaling as not only a way to express my thoughts, but as a self help guide to better expression and growth of myself!

I write because it makes me feel weightless, I write because it keeps calling me! The writing can range from ideas, story’s,goals,brainstorming etc but no matter what, writing just makes me feel better as a person & because it keeps calling me. I appreciate you’re content. Thank you .

I’ve started keeping a book journal as well. Basically, a personal review of whatever book I am reading at the moment.

I like the ideas you present in this video of things to include in our journals, but I have to be honest that the reason I started journaling years ago is because I didn’t want to “lost” my life; several days would go by and I would completely forget what I had done with them, so I started recording something most days to document things I wanted to remember about them. (I find it really useful to be able to go back and search for events, to refresh my memory as I get older.) This also turned into my “gratitude journal”, in which I try to find 3 things each day about which to be grateful, to reset my perspective. I tried typing my journal for a while, and found that I was more prolific (I’m a pretty fast typist), I didn’t find the process nearly as satisfying (although certainly easier to search!) So I’m back to writing, but with a nicer pen (a Pilot E95s, which is a joy, since it’s so lightweight and just glides; I can write pages and pages), which is more rewarding. It helps me untangle my thoughts, and gives me some needed self-talk.

I am that person who burns my journals. I will keep them for a few years, skim them over and then have a bonfire with them. For me they are processing pages and so very personal. When I burn them I feel this incredible release. I have a shoebox full of sweet memories or art pages I really like.

I have watched a lot of videos about journaling motivation. And for some reason your video is so simple yet so powerful. Thank you for sharing this insight. ❤

I have journals from 1972 when I was 11 years old and have kept them on and off my entire life. I am now 62. The insights I get on my youth and what was going on now that I can see it through the eyes of an adult are startling. It is like reliving my childhood but the one that it actually was, not the innocent and naive way I experienced it the first time. I love journaling. The act of dating the page and pouring out my thoughts proves to my own self that I exist in this time and space.

Your distinction between a journal and a diary makes me think of a simple system I use: a large book and a small book. Small book is my everyday notebook, and has my objectives for the day, notes, writing exercises, and whatever else catches my attention. I try to style it after the Bullet Journal method, but it only has a passing resemblance to it. Large book is for longer thoughts and observations.

I'm so happy I found this video (and your channel). I've been writing in ournals since I was a teenager and now am over 50. I write now more than ever and I just think of it as a conversation with myself, about my place in the world. It's a joy to meet others who also enjoy journaling and share their experience. Thank you!

My favorite channel - you are a pure spirit. Love your content!

Your videos literally put me an ease. I don't know what it is about you. Your voice, and passion that you put in these videos just made it so nice to listen to. Thank you Hemmingway. Because of you I got my first ever fountain pen (TWSBI Vac 700R Iris). Thank you for your positve influence. God bless you and your family.

I noticed that journaling is a way to curb my angst of spewing opinions without really thinking of the unintended consequences in my choice of words. It can bring civility to any situation.

Hi Hemingway. I really enjoyed watching this video. I admire your photographic skills. Some of the old leather bindings were beautiful and nice to see a great selection of pens. I suspect your Kaweco Brass Sport could be one of your favourite pens for journaling. You have managed to combine some lovely video footage with quite a dramatic soundtrack. I have the feeling you are something of a perfectionist in life. I watch many videos about keeping a journal, mainly because I want to but cannot quite convince myself I have something meaningful to say. I see some people, mostly ladies, enjoying decorating their journals with stickers, tape, pictures and much more ephemera. That style is not for me. One of my interests is collecting old books, much like yourself. I enjoy reading books of diaries, collections of letters and journals written by people like Samuel Johnson, Pepys etc. Yet, I cannot put my own life down in words. I have tried many times but it only lasts at best for a week or two. I will watch your video again and somehow try to be inspired by your good example.

Hello HJ. Just watched this video, again. Journaling to me is a private forum where you can be brutally honest with yourself without the worry of any judgement. Without the truth, there can be no advancement in our lives.

I read the New York and London Reviews of Books and often will write in my journal my opinion or response to the essays in the publications. They give enough information that sometimes I disagree though more often than not I agree. It all means more ink on the page and gets me thinking.

Discovered your channel here through YT's algorithm... Shocked that you have an even bigger following (and gold mine of content) on Tiktok! Now following you on both!!

I just found you. Watched two videos. So wonderful. Great ideas. So inspiring. Loved you journals. I tend to us Moleskine and Lechtruum. Your voice is calming and love the music. Im subscribing ❤️

I’m used to journal on several notebooks, one is truly personal, another for job and another for ideas and notes, this is an a6 size that fits in my bag and is very useful because I can grab things that may not seem important, but turn out to trigger some other thoughts when I recap at the end of the day, thanks for having such a great channel.

Thanks so much I’ve been looking for something like this for a while but I could never find the perfect video, but I’m pretty sure this was the best I’ve seen.

i think i ll try to journal in 2023 , you ve convenced me

Yes, I have journals for my daily writings as well as journals for my art ideas and crafts. Diagrams for the things I want to make and sources for product. Also what and where the inspiration came from. I love to know I safely have all my thoughts and ideas tucked away for immediate use or future use and review. I have been journaling for about 2 years and it's been an interesting endeavor. Thanks for a lovely video. Your journals are beautiful and your advise is spot on. Thank You!

Great video, I took a three week break from journaling. I was bullet journaling and regular journaling, I've decided to stop bullet journaling and just stick to regular journaling. You're the main reason why I started in October and have almost four months worth of entries. Overall good video, good information and good videography.

This is very good. I started to journal this year and you've been doing it for so many years. I think I will continue with it. What I do is just score myself based on some markers like sleep, focus, direction throughout the day and progress made and give myself an overall score in work and other things I do. I also do a tally at the end of the week and draw a graph to see how consistent I was. I should do a monthly catchup also.

Very inspiring and motivating; thank you!

I like carving my own rubber stamps, and using them in my journal. As a visual person, I add sketches, and vary colours too.

What a delightful video 💕 Wonderful tips. Thanks so much.

Very impressive set of journal books! Noticed the craftmanship of Bottega Obscura. Currently working on an enormous Epica book. My 4th one.

I have watched this video several times. I keep coming back to it for inspiration to go deeper. I have been journaling for several years and find it very helpful and revealing as time goes by. BUT, I haven't went as deep as I should or could have into dealing with the deeper somewhat darker side of me. Each time I watch this I bring more and more out onto the page. Thank you good sir for what you do. By the I'm saving up for one of those beautiful journals you show.

Great video! I usually start my journals out with a summary of my day, then my mind tends to wander a bit. I have a separate travel journal I always keep nearby for random thoughts and ideas.

I love you're videography, and I am so excited to see you're channel evolve. I have a feeling you won't be a small channel for long with all the great content you are putting out!

Thanks for a thoughtful video that has prompted some self-reflection. I’ve journaled off and on for 50 years, but the frequency increased with the Covid lockdown, and my recuperation from Covid. I used that time to practice penmanship, which had deteriorated over the years and is now much more legible, and to rediscover my attraction to fountain pens. Hand writing in a journal slows down my thoughts, and fosters deeper reflection than simply thinking would. The act of writing intentionally is pleasurable,even if I am not recording “deep thoughts.” In fact, I have come to believe that simply describing the ephemera of daily life is valuable to me. Trying to describe the shade of gray in the overcast sky, or the noises that surround me in the city, for example, helps me to understand what I notice (and what I seldom notice), and this tells me about myself and how I approach life. I think, in journaling, that it is a mistake to wait until one has something to say. Writing will reveal oneself to oneself, even if is only bemoaning a clogged sink!

Thank you so much for your words and perspectives on writing and journaling, I have difficulties to write in my journals for months now since I have been hospitalised... I try to have this appeal again but it seems like a dead fire and it makes me really sad but I know that sometimes we need to let time do it (English is not my first language, my appoligies for the mistakes)

I wrote in my gratitude journal everyday. It really helps me. I end the evening with more thoughts about the day. I would like to expand my journal experience as I tend yo write more than the space allows.

Brilliant video! Thank you so much!

I relate to what you said about reflecting on certain dates. When COVID first started, in my journal, I predicted that it would "blow over in a few months" and boy could that be farther from the truth. Great video, Hemingway, I look forward to incorporating some of your techniques to my own journaling.

Great Video, Hemingway. Journaling is a great instrument to get your mind free and to discuss your problems.

Beatifull journals HJ. hope to see more of this very inspiring

I honestly love your content and you inspire me to write more, especially with my fountain pen. I've been journaling a lot more lately and even writing in a book that has a lot of writing prompts in it. I was just curious about something. What are some cheaper notebooks I can write in with my fountain pen that has thicker paper so it won't bleed onto the next page? I only have two notebooks that are almost finished so I was just curious about your suggestions

Thank you for this! I just subscribed the other day, so youtube keeps putting your older videos in front of my eyes, and I can't resist the allure of your beautiful journals and chill vibe. I've been keeping a nightly page-a-diary for over 30 years. It is usually just the events of the day with the occasional rant or observation thrown in. I lost my brother to cancer a year and a half ago, around the time I started keeping morning pages (which I learned about from someone in a fountain pen group). It was therapeutic to have a place to rage, to grieve, to work through the loss and the huge life changes. Morning pages are basically a stream of consciousness, which can be useful, but I've learned that trying to confine yourself to what other people think you should include in a journal is quite limiting. Right now I have separate books for morning pages, projects, sketches, book reviews, goals and to do's, quotes that speak to me, work... I'm thinking that I will eventually merge a lot of these into one "book of my life." I think having so many is partly due to the urge to use new notebooks! I will say that keeping morning pages did really help me see how my undiagnosed but obvious ADHD has really limited my potential, and has forced me to find strategies that work for me. And looking back through older journals and seeing how long ago I started a project that I still haven't finished, despite my initial enthusiasm, is a real wake-up call! Thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful, and heartfelt videos.

Very nice BGM.

HJ---Great piece, tangibly instructive and by drawing on your personal experience/use it better illuminates possibilities for viewers. I have a lot of empty pages and always will, I suspect as the internal rarely makes it onto a page.

Hello HJ! Loved this video of yours! You always put in so much care and your passion for it is very apparent and contagious, especially in the last parts of the video (very beautiful and artistic). Would you ever be interested in making a video about the journals that you use, if you use any specific ones? I would value your thought out and thorough opinion very much. Have a wonderful day :)

I do it daily. It lets me decompress from a busy day. I have started two journals. My first, one is for me to decompress about my days and family. My second, is one I just started doing. I am writing about my family’s vacation. My wife and I took our kids to Legoland for Christmas. I am writing about what rides everyone liked and the rides that were not so great as well. Thank you for making these videos and keep making them. They are wonderful to watch.

this channel is wonderful.

Interesting segment. The mention of taking twenty minutes put aside for journaling is a useful idea. Perhaps also taking five or ten additional minutes to read what has been written previously would be useful as well, and might seed the field for further unfolding. Thank you for taking the time to cover these ideas.

Where do you buy those beautiful cover journals? Thanks. Love your videos!

Superb channel It means a lot Thankyou

Thank you

This is very helpful a nice way to organize your thoughts. My struggle with journaling is sticking with one book. I jump around from book to book I have yet to actually fill a journal. Does anyone else have this problem?

Hey, Hemingway! Enjoyed the video. May I ask where you get your journals ? I've recently bought my first pen after coming across your TikTok. I got a Kaweco sport in brass. I've become interested in Journaling as well, however I'm not interested in a normal, plain journal you can buy. I'm interested in something with character like yours

Thi s speaks to me directly. I Journal daily . I agree with what you said. I also watched your 5 top pens - have them all. I wonder if you have any Edison pens from Brian Gray’s Signature line or production models. I like them, but you will not around if you do not. Bill

Great video about this! I've been debating journaling but leaning towards doing it, especially since I have about 15 fountain pens that I don't use much. Wanted to ask you this...I just got a bottle of Noodler's 54th Massachusetts ink today, I inked it up in my TWSBI Vac and I love it. Have you heard anything bad about these inks as far as causing damage to pens? The only one I have seen that can do that is Baystate Blue but everything else seems to be ok judging from the reviews I have read. Thanks for what you do! Really admire your videos!

Can you tell me more about your journals? They’re beautiful. Who makes them, where do you get them. They look like antique books.

Great tips. We thank you! I’m curious though, if you keep in mind that someone will read your journals when you write write.

Thanks for this video, HJ. I journal too, and in my case, journaling has helped me deal with brain cancer and the resulting health problems the cancer and the chemotherapy have caused me. Journaling has helped me retain my sanity, and I have managed to deal with my health-related crisis' without suffering a jot of depression or anxiety or any other psychological problems. I do have a question for you though. At 2.09 in the video, you are seen journaling in a large journal, my question being what kind of journal are you using? I have not had good luck finding a blank journal like the big journal you are using. Thank you very much, HJ, keep up the great work producing these superb videos. Thank you.

Hemingway over the years I have tried to journal but always put it aside. But when I started using fountain pens I journal every day for three years now. Question: to be totally honest in ones journal writing are you concerned about others reading it? Thanks for your videos. BLESSINGS

I've been writing memories/memoirs since the sixties as a teenaged boy. I still do--have written around 25 pages of legal pad in the last couple of days. People, please don't get all wrapped up in 'journaling' and silly little fancy notebooks! Write--write freely whether in cursive as I do, or printing--but write and practice. You'll find, as I did decades ago, that 'stream of consciousness' writing will come to you, whether with your pen or your computer. The important part is the doing. Some days I'll actually go back 30 or 40 years and look at what I was thinking and what I was remembering. In this day of silly 'smart' phones and e-mail, what legacy will we be leaving to our families and descendants? In my family we treasure letters written by long-dead relatives from the 19th and 20th centuries, just like old photographs--which our digital cameras will lose...

Does anyone know where to find some of those awesome thick leather journals. I'd love to have one... or ten but I can't find them.

What is the difference between Diary and Journal? Bests regards from Germany, Carolina

I’ve journaled for nearly 30 years. Include strong opinions, details, and lots of sex. You will laugh at your old self. It’s probably healthy to list things you’re grateful for from time to time.

Journaling doesn't help me. What do I write about? Writing about my day, is too repetitive; " I got up, had a cup of coffee, showered, got dressed, etc etc "