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Paige Gardner's avatar

I'm so impressed!!!!!! I love how you use yours for EVERYTHING. The element of art (sketches and collages) are especially cool.

I've been keeping a joint notebook with two friends since 2016. Each of us has a journal at any given time, and then about 4 times a year, we mail to the next person. That way, it feels both like journaling, but also like writing a letter to a friend. It's "journaling for an audience," if you will. I like to call it Sisterhood of the Traveling Journals :)

The journals began when we were 22. We documented the most turbulent time of our lives! First jobs, losing jobs, relationships, engagements & marriages, moving states, moving countries, making friends, losing friends, having a child, etc. I feel I know them on their deepest level, and they know me.

And you're so right about sometimes not liking the person you see on the page, or reading back on an old entry and not recognizing that part of you anymore. It's fascinating and I wouldn't trade it for the world!

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TJ Wilson's avatar

I don’t know why I have never thought to put everything in one notebook! As a huge supporter of the one pile method for any papers/documents I need to archive, the one notebook method speaks loads to me. Time is the best organizer. Thanks!

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