4/30/2023 0 Comments Memoires app![]() Do you really want all of your thoughts out there for everyone? Or just for those close to you? If I want everyone to read it, I’ll post a blog, but otherwise I’ll just write it down. If you want it truly private you can’t put it online. So where do we record it? I’m pretty sure doc files will be around the rest of my life, but who really knows? Plus there’s privacy. What format do you record it on? CD ROM? Somewhere “in the cloud”? On your hard drive? And what format? Doc? Html? Txt? That sounds like an easy question, but 20 years ago if I had saved it all to floppy disk and then wanted to retrieve it another 20 years from now (or even have it retrievable)… will that be possible? We will drop technology for the next thing that’s slightly better and never look back (unless we wrote about it in our journal and want to look back at how pitifully bad our technology was in 19 and 20). The problems with journaling digitally is technology. I typed out a personal journal entry, added pictures and realized that several of my friends and family would like to see it. I actually did that with a recent blog post here. And as far as sharing, talk about easy! I just click a button and upload it to a blog or Facebook. (It’s easier to read, too!) I can use my home computer or my tablet or even my phone and immediately have access to all of my pictures and videos. ![]() But generally I do not.īasically the benefits of digital journaling are recorded above. I tried it for awhile, and still do it a bit. But I have decided that I don’t want to go that route. Digital can provide a more rich experience… Add photographs, sound, video, links to maps and even automatically record the current weather. One copy online can be read across the earth, whereas a handwritten tome can only be found at one location. What to do? Digital media is so much more readily retrievable. I spent a lot of time pondering the question of what I should do about the whole digital revolution and my journaling. ![]()
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