My Daily Journal (2025)

Archiving of the Mind

Archiving of the Mind

I've been thinking lately about writing more on my journal.

You know what would be a good idea? If I could write down my thoughts and save them somewhere, store them in a way so that if I searched for them years from now, I could find them easily. I need a way to store them so they won't get lost if a site goes down or a specific platform shuts down. I don't want to spend years of my life devoted to writing diligently only for it all to disappear one day and then lose access to all of those memories forever. That would suck.

The only way I can see this actually working is if I spread out my writing and decentralize where I store them. In other words, I need to post this in multiple locations, on various platforms, etc. That way, it is less likely that this content will ever get lost. Other than the whole Internet going down, I think spreading out my posts is probably my best bet at safeguarding them. So this is an attempt at that. This post and any posts I write from now on will be posted in multiple locations and sites.

Not that I think that what I have to say is anything important, but it's important enough for me to want to save and not lose forever.

So this is the start of something new. I'm not sure exactly how often I will post or write, but hopefully it's frequently. It doesn't have to be long posts. I'm just writing down my thoughts and my experiences on whatever is happening in my life. Maybe you'll enjoy reading this or maybe you won't. I guess we will see.

I'm going to post this everywhere that I can, even though I'm pretty sure none of the places I post it to will stick around forever, but the hope is that at least a few will. I'm not really a fan of using services that aren't mine to store my writing on. So that's why I'm trying to find ways to store it myself locally too. I've been using Obsidian and Evernote for that. And many of it is also saved on my physical drive as a backup.

I also keep an actual journal on my desk when I feel like writing with pen and paper sometimes. However, it feels a bit pointless when you can just do it on a computer and store it in multiple places at once. A journal can get lost, damaged, or destroyed in various ways. So for me, the internet is the most logical way to store long-term content.

It's a little weird to write this, knowing that someone will potentially be reading this a few years from now (other than me, of course).

But that's the whole idea!

I hope to not disappoint