Do You Keep A Five Year Dairy

[Citygirl]

I've bought one to use alongside my journal so that I can record the brief details of each day and just write as and when in my journal but I'm finding it hard to keep up with the five year diary. Does anyone else find this?

[Tayanna]

I am not familiar with a 5 year diary so I looked it up. This is where it has the dates already on the pages right?

 

I am a sporadic diary writer at best so I think it is best to use what you like and are comfortable with. My diaries have been

spiral bound notebooks, stitched notebooks, leather bound notebooks, etc. I write in what I have available to me and if I take a 6

month break, no big deal. Just pick up on the next blank page.

 

That's just me though.

[OCArt]

I started a Levenger five year diary this year. I use it mainly to record what my family is doing each day and have hopes that someday in the far future it might be fun for my daughter to read. I have occasionally missed a day but could reconstruct the details without too much difficulty.

 

However, I have found that keeping the five-year diary drastically reduced how often I wrote in my other journal and in total I may be writing less.

Edited March 10, 2016 by OCArt

[ink-syringe]

Midori makes a 3 and a 5 year diary with typical amazing MD paper quality.

[Scrivener1]

I am on my second five-year-diary, from Canadian Family Resources. As OCArt observed, I think I write less in my other journal now; but I like this balance better. It is great to see at a glance what happened on this date x number of years ago, and there is always something interesting to write for each day, even if it's only what we had for supper! My other journal now has the role of a place to record the thought-process for major decisions, descriptions of really important events (rare), and a place to write out extended quotes.

[Citygirl]

Thank you for your replies. Do you keep five year diaries instead of appointment diaries to look back on? I love keeping a sporadic journal and just write when I feel like it but it would be nice to keep a daily record also, especially now I use my phone for appointments. I don't want a second diary to make me neglect my journal however.

[PaperDarts]

I'm on my second year of using a Leuchturm "Some lines a day" 5-year memory book. As Citygirl proposed, I use it to record weather and basic events of the day - very little personal information, which I reserve for my journal. I might write in my personal journal slightly less often but am really not sure - the latter is not a daily habit and never has been. The Leuchturm lets you record the year and the day - each page is headed only by the date. I'm finding it interesting to compare 2016 days with 2015 days so far. Sometimes I lag for a few days but can usually reconstruct them from my daybook, which records tasks and appointments.

[vjones]

I have a 10 year journal but I've been inconsistent about writing in it. I tend to write more in my other unstructured journal, where I might write nothing for a few days, then several pages on another day. I still haven't given up on the 10 year journal yet though.