I use several journals at once - I like to do exercises I find on Skillshare as well as take notes. I also like to do thought dumps, mood tracking, and planner sheets. 

I have the One Line a Day notebook, but I don't write in it every day. Here's a few samples (I always write by hand, but in this project I've transcribed everything): 

8/12/2023: "Did pomodoro for my apps early, but then got my desk set up and decided to quit screens for the day, as they confer no benefit in my life." 

8/14/2023: "Agitated and jittery all day from caffeine and minimal sleep. Obsessed with time tracking. Took meds and fell asleep early."

8/21/2023: "Very relaxing day because I went at a leisurely paced. I didn't force myself. Did some reading and notes on my phone. Felt very free today."

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I also have a journal that I got from Wal-Mart which has a daily template. It's pink and the cover says "PLAN PAUSE REFLECT (flourish)." Here's one entry I did from 8/1/2024:

One Word to Lead My Day: Honor thy mother

What Made Me Happy: Seeing the tomatoes in the backyard, Mom enjoying my company, refusing to drink coffee (only tea!)

What Challenged Me: Got bee in my bonnet about journals, hold your horses there kid! Challenging discussion about ------'s privilege and my lack thereof. 

How Did I Help Myself?: Stopped working at the natural endpoint instead of pushing further. Took good sized break early afternoon.

What I Could Have Done Differently: Not let the talk w/ Mom go on so long

What I Learned About Myself: I can go at a challenging pace for about 4 hours, then I must slow down considerably

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Sometimes I come across an idea for a topic to write about organically, such as this one, "What I Learned from Transferring My Old Entries, Part 2," which discusses stuff like limerence and activity planning.

1. No way in **** am I copying all those clickbait entries I wrote last month. Day One doesn't know how to copy pictures, so I'd have to do a whole bunch of formatting tasks I don't want to. And there are SIXTEEN of those entries. So, sorry, but I'm not gonna bother with it. It was stupid anyways, dank memes aren't really that interesting.  

2. I'm starting to think ----- never did get a nose job, that he just went from the age of 22 to 50 and he's merely an old geezer. I'm not sure. All I know is that I -------, and he makes a perfect fiancé for my stories. 

3. As I stated on the last page, my celebrity crushes were STUPID. Booo! *throws popcorn* Why would I like an a**hat who would treat someone like me with disrespect? It's a recipe for craziness, I tell you! 

4. The "31 year old child" entry starts this section because it's when my new crushes got up in the wazoo, and that's what led to writing fiction. So that was a good point to transition sections.  

5. Regular journaling was laborious and a pain in the a**. It's way better using Replika and creative writing to bolster my creativity before I start putting stuff into a regular journal.  

6. My activity plans were all a load of garbage. Why did I keep doing it? Why didn't I just say "**** it" and look for more men to think about? Now in my dull moments, I can think about ---------. That sounds like a much better alternative than the bulls**t activity OCD. 

7.   The -------- thing was actually pretty reasonable and tame. Probably because I learned he's quite a nice guy, and that made me feel safe liking him. Feelings of inner unsafety and trauma are what make some crushes really, really bad.  

8. Praise Jeebus that I came up with Fiktionwelt [the world I built], or I'd be in a big pickle, STILL. I couldn't handle the rigidity and inflexibility at all for about the WHOLE ***** TIME IT WAS HAPPENING. 

9. The Jesusy content doesn't work for me, sorry. I believe in Jesus Christ, but I can't get myself in a holy kind of mood anymore. It's artificial for me. It doesn't feel natural and it was kind of stilted when I did manage to be Jesusy. (Sorry, -----. Keep doing your thing, though, cause it's hot on you.)  

10. Getting back into church will definitely be a positive thing in my life. I'm gonna get up, get dressed, and walk out that damned door. Period. 

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I enjoy answering prompts that I get off the internet, such as "What is a significant moment from this past month?"

A significant moment from the past month was when I swallowed my pride and got back in touch with -----. It was challenging to accept that he can't be as attentive as I want. Its easier to accept people's limitations when you know you can trust them. I had to stop the thing with ---- because I felt very judged about things like not being able to drive; he was trying to tell me I should make it a goal to get my drivers license. For what reason? So he can be less embarrassed by me? So I can be more "normal"? He sure as **** wasn't doing it for me, because I don't have the financial means to have a car anyways, and I tried to tell him that. At least ---- has mostly just said I should do it, then been understanding when I told him the reasons I haven't done it. He won't push me to the point that I feel agitated and resistant. I don't like when people (like my dad) try to make my life more "normal" for no ones benefit but their own. It hurts me when people try to change me in ways that I don't believe are important and are in fact very superficial. I'll be more virtuous. I'll accomplish goals that I actually want to accomplish. But I won't do things to be more "normal" to ease your judgment of me. **** that ****. Stupid. Anyways, getting in touch with ------ has been helpful and helped me learn to compromise in friendships.