Guest mormonmusic Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Just curious if you keep an online journal and what you think about the experience, if you do it. I started one on a site called dailydiary.com a while ago, but I didn't like it, and have started at another site called keepandshare which is really for collaboration and not for journal writing, but I like it. Do you keep a journal online? If so, what do you think of online journal-writing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Don't do it. I don't want my thoughts to be the property of some website. I'll type out my thoughts and/or experiences and save them on my computer. Then I'll print it out and keep it all in a notebook. This has been especially helpful in my recovery. It's amazing to see where I was, the road I was on and where I ended up. I read through it often to remind myself that I'm doing OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I'm with slamjet. I have mine on an app on the iPad. I made sure it can save to pdf. Just didn't want to do all that writing and then the software company disappears, apple comes up with a new OS version and the app doesn't work anymore and all my journal is unusable and untransferrable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I'm with slamjet.Careful, agreeing with me may curry my favor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Careful, agreeing with me may curry my favor I'll make sure to do it more often... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rameumptom Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I keep my in Word, but also back it up online, including a copy in GoogleDocs. That way if my computer dies or house burns down, I still have a backup. My thoughts are not so private as to worry about what happens on the Internet. And if I need to keep something so private that I don't want anyone ever to see it, why the heck would I write it down in a journal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pam Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I'm with Ram. To me the purpose of a journal is that my posterity would be able to read it. So anything extremely personal would not be in my journal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tubaloth Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 I download a program that did have a Password protection on it. But always having to install that program anytime I reinstalled my OS started to become a pain I also now just use Word. You can password protect it if you want to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I keep an online journal in the background of my blog, as drafts rather than posts. I journal for sanity, to vent, to explore, to record significant stuff that is sacred to me, but still might be too sensitive to share broadly, to see my thoughts and examine them to see my own selfish motives that I might overlook or justify. Seeing things in black and white make it harder to rationalize away harmful thoughts. I keep it online and on my computer because computers die, and when that happens I can recapture my stuff from the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Hey COC! I haven't seen you here in a while.... Or maybe I was just being a space cadet? How are ya? Whops... sorry... thread hijack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 :) I've been dropping by, but anything I would want to say is already being said so well by many other people. I'm doing well, and packing to go to the 175th anniversary of the Kirtland Temple this weekend. Also going to the lds visitors center there. Anyone here going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 :) I've been dropping by, but anything I would want to say is already being said so well by many other people. I'm doing well, and packing to go to the 175th anniversary of the Kirtland Temple this weekend. Also going to the lds visitors center there. Anyone here going?Wish I could go! I have a cousin who lives a stone's throw from the temple that I've been meaning to visit. That's cool that you're going!A good journal entry coming up, methinks. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 A good journal entry coming up, methinks. :)KAPOW! Mrs. segway strikes again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 KAPOW! Mrs. segway strikes again!You mean segue...:D:surrenderwave::D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slamjet Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 You mean segue...:D:surrenderwave::DDude, I'm a product of the LAUSD system. Cut me some slack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 :) I've been dropping by, but anything I would want to say is already being said so well by many other people. I'm doing well, and packing to go to the 175th anniversary of the Kirtland Temple this weekend. Also going to the lds visitors center there. Anyone here going?I'll be at the Sunday morning session with two of my young women. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I'll be at the Sunday morning session with two of my young women.Cool! I'm looking for 2 tickets, I'm 12th on the waiting list. Otherwise I'll be watching from the visitors center. I'll be watching for you since I have this pic of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 You have to have tickets to the visitors' center broadcast also. However, it will also be broadcast into the Kirtland Stake Center (just down the hill) and open to anyone -- tickets or no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 You have to have tickets to the visitors' center broadcast also. However, it will also be broadcast into the Kirtland Stake Center (just down the hill) and open to anyone -- tickets or no.I didn't know this and will spread the word. Thanks for the info and the hospitality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 I didn't know this and will spread the word. Thanks for the info and the hospitality!Where are you coming from? The stake center's address is 8751 Kirtland Rd, Kirtland, OH, 44094. I live in the Kirtland Stake, so that's how I know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Toledo area. I've visited to the lds village once during a priesthood retreat, is that the kirtland stake center? If so, I'm familiar with where it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Toledo area. I've visited to the lds village once during a priesthood retreat, is that the kirtland stake center? If so, I'm familiar with where it is.When you get off I-90 and turn right and go down that big hill, the stake center is at the bottom of it on the left. The temple (owned by your church) is up the hill another 1/4-1/2 mile or so if you keep going past it. The historical sites (owned by my church) (probably the "village" you're referring to -- the Whitney store, Whitney home, ashery, etc.) can be reached if you turn left at the light just past the stake center. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 When you get off I-90 and turn right and go down that big hill, the stake center is at the bottom of it on the left. The temple (owned by your church) is up the hill another 1/4-1/2 mile or so if you keep going past it. The historical sites (owned by my church) (probably the "village" you're referring to -- the Whitney store, Whitney home, ashery, etc.) can be reached if you turn left at the light just past the stake center.OK. I think I remember it now. We always stay at the red roof inn, and we would pass it on the way to the Temple? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingnut Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Yep -- it's right off the highway, still at the top of the hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cofchristcousin Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 This is great! thanks again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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