Love this photo from Stephen Hackett of his notebooks. Also very smart to have digital copies. I’ve scanned some of my old journals in but not all of them. Really want to finish that task because it makes me very nervous to lose the journals.

Jamie McGibbon

@manton That’s awesome to see all of @ismh86’s notebooks scanned in like that! It’s nice to be able to easily reference materials every now and then, even if just for the nostalgia of it.

Cliff538

I scan my paper journals into DayOne. Gives you a nice mix of digital and analog.

Manton Reece

@cliff538 That's great. I switched from hand-written journals to Day One a number of years ago, so ideally I would transcribe the old journals so it's all text. But just the scanned copy would be good too.

Robert Breen

I used a scanner app on my iPhone to create PDFs of my handwritten journals, usually around 50 pages at a time. Then, on long flights or business trips, I transcribed the journal pages into Day One on my iPad Pro in split screen (PDF on the left, D1 on the right). It took a while to transcribe them all, but now I have a PDF archive of everything and amazing, searchable memories in Day One. "On This Day" goes back 40 years!

Manton Reece

@cliff538 That's amazing. I'm inspired again to finish this.

Cliff538

@robertbreen Great idea! I wish I would of journaled back in the day.

John Chandler

@robertbreen Love this. And I love the "On This Day" feature. I also pulled in my pre Day One journals for this purpose, though I only have 20 years worth. Wish I would have journaled more in the years before that.

David O’Hara

have you seen the movie Paterson? It’s related to your point.

Manton Reece

@davoh I haven't seen that. Thanks for the recommendation, will check it out.

David O’Hara

you’re welcome. It’s a beautiful film. I hope you enjoy it.

Robert Breen

@johnchandler Twenty years is a great start!

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