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Two different journals in one? (jlai.lu)

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This year, I wanted to start keeping a reading journal.

That’s certainly not a revolutionary idea, but I still managed to get stuck on a simple technical consideration: should I use a dedicated journal? Or write them in my existing journal, next to my usual entries? But then, how would I be able to easily spot my reading entries and distinguish them from the journal entries?

In the end, I decided I would do everything in my existing journal but that I would write reading entries in a different color from standard journal entries. It’s simple enough while still making it very easy to instantly tell them apart.

What would you do?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Flip it over. You'd write on the back of other used pages and upside down, so it's clear which notes belong with which.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's clever! And since I will have no shame stealing your idea, this also means I could easily have at least three different kind of entries in a single journal :)