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.


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

@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.

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!

@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.

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