Sometimes I fall in the rut of continuing to write about my days. But after this video it puts a new perspective of things you can write in your journal. Thank you!
I love hearing how others journal and what they journal about. I love the idea of memory keeping journaling and have been doing that for about 2 years . But I realized I need someplace else to write down my thoughts, feelings, and ideas so now I keep a second journal for that. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to do this and wish I had been journaling through my life.
Thank you Hemingway, for helping me to see how I really want to use my Journaling as not only a way to express my thoughts, but as a self help guide to better expression and growth of myself!
I have watched a lot of videos about journaling motivation. And for some reason your video is so simple yet so powerful. Thank you for sharing this insight. ❤
I like the ideas you present in this video of things to include in our journals, but I have to be honest that the reason I started journaling years ago is because I didn’t want to “lost” my life; several days would go by and I would completely forget what I had done with them, so I started recording something most days to document things I wanted to remember about them. (I find it really useful to be able to go back and search for events, to refresh my memory as I get older.) This also turned into my “gratitude journal”, in which I try to find 3 things each day about which to be grateful, to reset my perspective. I tried typing my journal for a while, and found that I was more prolific (I’m a pretty fast typist), I didn’t find the process nearly as satisfying (although certainly easier to search!) So I’m back to writing, but with a nicer pen (a Pilot E95s, which is a joy, since it’s so lightweight and just glides; I can write pages and pages), which is more rewarding. It helps me untangle my thoughts, and gives me some needed self-talk.
This is a very good point and thank you for underlining it. I do this as well. I wanted to hold onto events and details and to be able to refer back to them. Thank you for an excellent comment.
I write because it makes me feel weightless, I write because it keeps calling me! The writing can range from ideas, story’s,goals,brainstorming etc but no matter what, writing just makes me feel better as a person & because it keeps calling me. I appreciate you’re content. Thank you .
I am that person who burns my journals. I will keep them for a few years, skim them over and then have a bonfire with them. For me they are processing pages and so very personal. When I burn them I feel this incredible release. I have a shoebox full of sweet memories or art pages I really like.
I read the New York and London Reviews of Books and often will write in my journal my opinion or response to the essays in the publications. They give enough information that sometimes I disagree though more often than not I agree. It all means more ink on the page and gets me thinking.
I have journals from 1972 when I was 11 years old and have kept them on and off my entire life. I am now 62. The insights I get on my youth and what was going on now that I can see it through the eyes of an adult are startling. It is like reliving my childhood but the one that it actually was, not the innocent and naive way I experienced it the first time. I love journaling. The act of dating the page and pouring out my thoughts proves to my own self that I exist in this time and space.
I have also been journaling on and off for years. However, I'm reluctant to read back through them for fear of embarrassment. Most of the entries would be complaints about this and that and how unfair things were.
I'm so happy I found this video (and your channel). I've been writing in ournals since I was a teenager and now am over 50. I write now more than ever and I just think of it as a conversation with myself, about my place in the world. It's a joy to meet others who also enjoy journaling and share their experience. Thank you!
Hello HJ. Just watched this video, again. Journaling to me is a private forum where you can be brutally honest with yourself without the worry of any judgement. Without the truth, there can be no advancement in our lives.
Your distinction between a journal and a diary makes me think of a simple system I use: a large book and a small book. Small book is my everyday notebook, and has my objectives for the day, notes, writing exercises, and whatever else catches my attention. I try to style it after the Bullet Journal method, but it only has a passing resemblance to it. Large book is for longer thoughts and observations.
I noticed that journaling is a way to curb my angst of spewing opinions without really thinking of the unintended consequences in my choice of words. It can bring civility to any situation.
Your videos literally put me an ease. I don't know what it is about you. Your voice, and passion that you put in these videos just made it so nice to listen to. Thank you Hemmingway. Because of you I got my first ever fountain pen (TWSBI Vac 700R Iris). Thank you for your positve influence. God bless you and your family.
Thank you very much! That is such a kind comment and I appreciate it so much. I am so glad that you enjoy these videos. I wish you all the best always.
I just found you. Watched two videos. So wonderful. Great ideas. So inspiring. Loved you journals. I tend to us Moleskine and Lechtruum. Your voice is calming and love the music. Im subscribing ❤️
Hi Hemingway. I really enjoyed watching this video. I admire your photographic skills. Some of the old leather bindings were beautiful and nice to see a great selection of pens. I suspect your Kaweco Brass Sport could be one of your favourite pens for journaling. You have managed to combine some lovely video footage with quite a dramatic soundtrack. I have the feeling you are something of a perfectionist in life. I watch many videos about keeping a journal, mainly because I want to but cannot quite convince myself I have something meaningful to say. I see some people, mostly ladies, enjoying decorating their journals with stickers, tape, pictures and much more ephemera. That style is not for me. One of my interests is collecting old books, much like yourself. I enjoy reading books of diaries, collections of letters and journals written by people like Samuel Johnson, Pepys etc. Yet, I cannot put my own life down in words. I have tried many times but it only lasts at best for a week or two. I will watch your video again and somehow try to be inspired by your good example.
Hello David, thanks for the kind comment. I do try to put a good product out there. I appreciate that you have noticed. Thank you. I am sure that you could make an interesting journal of ideas. Like you, I don’t decorate or write for its own sake. People recopy books and whatnot. That is not for me. You are a very thoughtful person who writes quite well. I am sure there are vast internal landscapes for you to explore. Let me know if I can help and stay well.
Discovered your channel here through YT's algorithm... Shocked that you have an even bigger following (and gold mine of content) on Tiktok! Now following you on both!!
Great video, I took a three week break from journaling. I was bullet journaling and regular journaling, I've decided to stop bullet journaling and just stick to regular journaling. You're the main reason why I started in October and have almost four months worth of entries. Overall good video, good information and good videography.
I have watched this video several times. I keep coming back to it for inspiration to go deeper. I have been journaling for several years and find it very helpful and revealing as time goes by. BUT, I haven't went as deep as I should or could have into dealing with the deeper somewhat darker side of me. Each time I watch this I bring more and more out onto the page. Thank you good sir for what you do. By the I'm saving up for one of those beautiful journals you show.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the kind comments, Dean. It means so much to me. I have some other videos on journaling as well. I did a Live on how Journaling Saved me and I did one at Walden Pond recently that you may enjoy as well. Thank you and if I can help to keep you inspired, please let me know!
I do it daily. It lets me decompress from a busy day. I have started two journals. My first, one is for me to decompress about my days and family. My second, is one I just started doing. I am writing about my family’s vacation. My wife and I took our kids to Legoland for Christmas. I am writing about what rides everyone liked and the rides that were not so great as well. Thank you for making these videos and keep making them. They are wonderful to watch.
I love that you have yours on full display. Mine are hidden as I’d be mortified about them being discovered 🤣. That being said, journaling is helping me become less apologetic about who I am
Thank you for this! I just subscribed the other day, so youtube keeps putting your older videos in front of my eyes, and I can't resist the allure of your beautiful journals and chill vibe. I've been keeping a nightly page-a-diary for over 30 years. It is usually just the events of the day with the occasional rant or observation thrown in. I lost my brother to cancer a year and a half ago, around the time I started keeping morning pages (which I learned about from someone in a fountain pen group). It was therapeutic to have a place to rage, to grieve, to work through the loss and the huge life changes. Morning pages are basically a stream of consciousness, which can be useful, but I've learned that trying to confine yourself to what other people think you should include in a journal is quite limiting. Right now I have separate books for morning pages, projects, sketches, book reviews, goals and to do's, quotes that speak to me, work... I'm thinking that I will eventually merge a lot of these into one "book of my life." I think having so many is partly due to the urge to use new notebooks! I will say that keeping morning pages did really help me see how my undiagnosed but obvious ADHD has really limited my potential, and has forced me to find strategies that work for me. And looking back through older journals and seeing how long ago I started a project that I still haven't finished, despite my initial enthusiasm, is a real wake-up call! Thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful, and heartfelt videos.
Hello, and thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. I deeply appreciate them and am very happy that my channel is resonating with you. I am so sorry to hear about your brother. I am so glad to hear that journaling helped to assuage some of the anxiety and cavernous loss that followed. I like how you use many books. I tend to use one at a time. I did a recent video at Walden Pond on Journaling that you may like and a Live from the beginning of the year called “How Journaling Saved My Life” may add some value as well. Thanks for being here with me and us. I wish you all the best. Please stop by again soon.
@HemingwayJones I picked up the Thoreau book from the library after watching the Walden Pond video. My cat really enjoyed your video as well. He couldn't keep his little paws off the screen, the tiny chaos agent.
Thanks for a thoughtful video that has prompted some self-reflection. I’ve journaled off and on for 50 years, but the frequency increased with the Covid lockdown, and my recuperation from Covid. I used that time to practice penmanship, which had deteriorated over the years and is now much more legible, and to rediscover my attraction to fountain pens. Hand writing in a journal slows down my thoughts, and fosters deeper reflection than simply thinking would. The act of writing intentionally is pleasurable,even if I am not recording “deep thoughts.” In fact, I have come to believe that simply describing the ephemera of daily life is valuable to me. Trying to describe the shade of gray in the overcast sky, or the noises that surround me in the city, for example, helps me to understand what I notice (and what I seldom notice), and this tells me about myself and how I approach life. I think, in journaling, that it is a mistake to wait until one has something to say. Writing will reveal oneself to oneself, even if is only bemoaning a clogged sink!
That sounds wonderful. I love Bottega Obscura. They are my favorites. All the best.
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I’m used to journal on several notebooks, one is truly personal, another for job and another for ideas and notes, this is an a6 size that fits in my bag and is very useful because I can grab things that may not seem important, but turn out to trigger some other thoughts when I recap at the end of the day, thanks for having such a great channel.
Great video! I usually start my journals out with a summary of my day, then my mind tends to wander a bit. I have a separate travel journal I always keep nearby for random thoughts and ideas.
Thanks so much I’ve been looking for something like this for a while but I could never find the perfect video, but I’m pretty sure this was the best I’ve seen.
I wrote in my gratitude journal everyday. It really helps me. I end the evening with more thoughts about the day. I would like to expand my journal experience as I tend yo write more than the space allows.
I relate to what you said about reflecting on certain dates. When COVID first started, in my journal, I predicted that it would "blow over in a few months" and boy could that be farther from the truth. Great video, Hemingway, I look forward to incorporating some of your techniques to my own journaling.
Interesting segment. The mention of taking twenty minutes put aside for journaling is a useful idea. Perhaps also taking five or ten additional minutes to read what has been written previously would be useful as well, and might seed the field for further unfolding. Thank you for taking the time to cover these ideas.
Thank you so much for your words and perspectives on writing and journaling, I have difficulties to write in my journals for months now since I have been hospitalised... I try to have this appeal again but it seems like a dead fire and it makes me really sad but I know that sometimes we need to let time do it (English is not my first language, my appoligies for the mistakes)
You made no mistakes at all in your comment. Good job. Thank you for the kind comment. I hope that my channel might inspire you who wrote when you can. In the meantime, take care and keep in touch. All the best.
Thi s speaks to me directly. I Journal daily . I agree with what you said. I also watched your 5 top pens - have them all. I wonder if you have any Edison pens from Brian Gray’s Signature line or production models. I like them, but you will not around if you do not. Bill
Hello and thank you. This is probably my favorite and most important video. I wish more people could get to see it. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Sadly, I do not -yet! Have an Edison pen. All the best.
Yes, I have journals for my daily writings as well as journals for my art ideas and crafts. Diagrams for the things I want to make and sources for product. Also what and where the inspiration came from. I love to know I safely have all my thoughts and ideas tucked away for immediate use or future use and review. I have been journaling for about 2 years and it's been an interesting endeavor. Thanks for a lovely video. Your journals are beautiful and your advise is spot on. Thank You!
This is very good. I started to journal this year and you've been doing it for so many years. I think I will continue with it. What I do is just score myself based on some markers like sleep, focus, direction throughout the day and progress made and give myself an overall score in work and other things I do. I also do a tally at the end of the week and draw a graph to see how consistent I was. I should do a monthly catchup also.
I love you're videography, and I am so excited to see you're channel evolve. I have a feeling you won't be a small channel for long with all the great content you are putting out!
This is very helpful a nice way to organize your thoughts. My struggle with journaling is sticking with one book. I jump around from book to book I have yet to actually fill a journal. Does anyone else have this problem?
I've been writing memories/memoirs since the sixties as a teenaged boy. I still do--have written around 25 pages of legal pad in the last couple of days. People, please don't get all wrapped up in 'journaling' and silly little fancy notebooks! Write--write freely whether in cursive as I do, or printing--but write and practice. You'll find, as I did decades ago, that 'stream of consciousness' writing will come to you, whether with your pen or your computer. The important part is the doing. Some days I'll actually go back 30 or 40 years and look at what I was thinking and what I was remembering. In this day of silly 'smart' phones and e-mail, what legacy will we be leaving to our families and descendants? In my family we treasure letters written by long-dead relatives from the 19th and 20th centuries, just like old photographs--which our digital cameras will lose...
Love this! The most important thing is the writing. I would differ from you in that a sturdy notebook will ensure they survive. My spiral notebooks were lost and some weee water-damaged, but once I’ve switched to nicer bindings they have all stayed together. Love your comment and perspective. I hope you visit again.
@@HemingwayJones Question for you: do you use those typewriters on your shelves or are they decoration? I satisfy my itchy typing fingers most of the time these days with a Logitech mech keyboard on my desktop that's as fast typing as any of my office electronic machines.
HJ---Great piece, tangibly instructive and by drawing on your personal experience/use it better illuminates possibilities for viewers. I have a lot of empty pages and always will, I suspect as the internal rarely makes it onto a page.
Hello HJ! Loved this video of yours! You always put in so much care and your passion for it is very apparent and contagious, especially in the last parts of the video (very beautiful and artistic). Would you ever be interested in making a video about the journals that you use, if you use any specific ones? I would value your thought out and thorough opinion very much. Have a wonderful day :)
Thank you so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed it. Comments like this make it all worthwhile. Thanks you! I can do one on the different journals. Thanks.
I’ve journaled for nearly 30 years. Include strong opinions, details, and lots of sex. You will laugh at your old self. It’s probably healthy to list things you’re grateful for from time to time.
Hello Justin! Thank you for such an excellent comment. It sounds as if your life has been awesome! -and your journal will stand as a testament to it. I love your voice in this comment I would love to hear more from you. Thanks for this and I wish you all the best.
@@HemingwayJones I try not to restrain myself much for a few reasons. One is my wife and kids would probably not read all my writings. Another is that I like the idea that they will find some interesting things about me that they didn’t know previously. I do restrain myself when it comes to commenting about others. I may talk about how I feel but without mentioning details about why. Cheers.
Thanks for this video, HJ. I journal too, and in my case, journaling has helped me deal with brain cancer and the resulting health problems the cancer and the chemotherapy have caused me. Journaling has helped me retain my sanity, and I have managed to deal with my health-related crisis' without suffering a jot of depression or anxiety or any other psychological problems. I do have a question for you though. At 2.09 in the video, you are seen journaling in a large journal, my question being what kind of journal are you using? I have not had good luck finding a blank journal like the big journal you are using. Thank you very much, HJ, keep up the great work producing these superb videos. Thank you.
Hello Wolverine! Thank you so much for sharing your inspiring story. It is amazing that you made it through that and truly heroic. I am sure you have a lot to say in your journal. So, yes, that is my current journal that I am using now and it’s from Barnes and Noble. And for what it is, it is pretty great: inexpensive at $60, decent paper (Florentina) and is quite large. I love that it looks Medieval. It’s $60 on their website. The only bad thing is that it splays and quickly and there is nothing to do about it. I think it makes it even more vintage, but you should know.
Link to the journal, I also have the one that looks like heraldry. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/patina-brown-dragon-with-studs-embossed-italian-leather-lined-journal-fiorentina/1118227010;jsessionid=F160A1382087898FFF605C9B9381BEC6.prodny_store02-atgap10?ean=9781615583744
Great video about this! I've been debating journaling but leaning towards doing it, especially since I have about 15 fountain pens that I don't use much. Wanted to ask you this...I just got a bottle of Noodler's 54th Massachusetts ink today, I inked it up in my TWSBI Vac and I love it. Have you heard anything bad about these inks as far as causing damage to pens? The only one I have seen that can do that is Baystate Blue but everything else seems to be ok judging from the reviews I have read. Thanks for what you do! Really admire your videos!
Thank you Brandon! I have heard rumors of Noodler’s damaging pens. I would check his Ph content. I usually don’t worry about these things. Inks are fairly corrosive, but I think it would take a lot to damage a TWSBI. The plunger may be the weak point. I’ve heard Nathan of Noodler’s pushing back on these rumors. Wish you all the best.
I honestly love your content and you inspire me to write more, especially with my fountain pen. I've been journaling a lot more lately and even writing in a book that has a lot of writing prompts in it. I was just curious about something. What are some cheaper notebooks I can write in with my fountain pen that has thicker paper so it won't bleed onto the next page? I only have two notebooks that are almost finished so I was just curious about your suggestions
Hello Jackson! Way to go! I’m happy to here that you are writing and staying inspired. Wishing you all the best. I tend to like hardcover books like the ones I showed. However, I use some for TikTok filming so I get a good sense of some others. Atoms to Astronauts has some thick cover notebooks that are heavy enough to journal in and have very nice paper. Anything Rhodia, Claire Fontaine, or Ayush as well. All very good. Sadly, Moleskine is pretty awful.
Hey, Hemingway! Enjoyed the video. May I ask where you get your journals ? I've recently bought my first pen after coming across your TikTok. I got a Kaweco sport in brass. I've become interested in Journaling as well, however I'm not interested in a normal, plain journal you can buy. I'm interested in something with character like yours
Hemingway over the years I have tried to journal but always put it aside. But when I started using fountain pens I journal every day for three years now. Question: to be totally honest in ones journal writing are you concerned about others reading it? Thanks for your videos. BLESSINGS
Hello and thanks for the kind words. I am never concerned with anyone reading it. I am assuming at this point that one day my daughter will. I even put little Easter Eggs in there for her. All the best.
Journaling doesn't help me. What do I write about? Writing about my day, is too repetitive; " I got up, had a cup of coffee, showered, got dressed, etc etc "
Hello Teresa, I have a lot of videos on this subject and with many more coming. You have an entire lifetime of experience to contemplate and explore. You can create a library of your goals, dreams, ideas. You can attempt to answer life’s big questions. You can challenge, refute or support your own beliefs. You can explore your personal concept of happiness. So much! Your mind is vast!
Hello! I think that they are mostly interchangeable. To me though, a diary is a personal confessional, while a journal has a purpose. It would be a good UA-cam idea.
@@HemingwayJones Thank you so much for the quick and dear reply! I would really like to see a video with the theme "pens I regret buying, or that are not worth the price paid". I really like your channel and I hope you keep making your videos. A video where you show ALL your inks would also be interesting! Hugs from Germany.
@@carolinavoss5967 Thank you very much for the kind words and for the excellent suggestion! I can most definitely do so. I think it’s more interesting when there are issues or something more complex with a pen that go beyond a straightforward review. Thanks, stop in again, and all the best to you!
Sometimes I fall in the rut of continuing to write about my days. But after this video it puts a new perspective of things you can write in your journal. Thank you!
Thank you, My friend. Check in with me. I'll help keep you inspired.
I love hearing how others journal and what they journal about. I love the idea of memory keeping journaling and have been doing that for about 2 years . But I realized I need someplace else to write down my thoughts, feelings, and ideas so now I keep a second journal for that. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to do this and wish I had been journaling through my life.
I am glad you began when you did! Wish you all the best.
Very inspiring and motivating; thank you!
You are so welcome!
Thank you Hemingway, for helping me to see how I really want to use my Journaling as not only a way to express my thoughts, but as a self help guide to better expression and growth of myself!
Thank you! I need to do more content on this. Journaling is so helpful for me. I have grown so much as a person.
I have watched a lot of videos about journaling motivation. And for some reason your video is so simple yet so powerful. Thank you for sharing this insight. ❤
Thank you so much! That is extremely kind of you. I am glad you enjoyed it.
What a delightful video 💕 Wonderful tips. Thanks so much.
Thank you Amy Friend!
I like the ideas you present in this video of things to include in our journals, but I have to be honest that the reason I started journaling years ago is because I didn’t want to “lost” my life; several days would go by and I would completely forget what I had done with them, so I started recording something most days to document things I wanted to remember about them. (I find it really useful to be able to go back and search for events, to refresh my memory as I get older.) This also turned into my “gratitude journal”, in which I try to find 3 things each day about which to be grateful, to reset my perspective. I tried typing my journal for a while, and found that I was more prolific (I’m a pretty fast typist), I didn’t find the process nearly as satisfying (although certainly easier to search!) So I’m back to writing, but with a nicer pen (a Pilot E95s, which is a joy, since it’s so lightweight and just glides; I can write pages and pages), which is more rewarding. It helps me untangle my thoughts, and gives me some needed self-talk.
This is a very good point and thank you for underlining it. I do this as well. I wanted to hold onto events and details and to be able to refer back to them. Thank you for an excellent comment.
I write because it makes me feel weightless, I write because it keeps calling me! The writing can range from ideas, story’s,goals,brainstorming etc but no matter what, writing just makes me feel better as a person & because it keeps calling me. I appreciate you’re content. Thank you .
This is absolutely wonderful.
I am that person who burns my journals. I will keep them for a few years, skim them over and then have a bonfire with them. For me they are processing pages and so very personal. When I burn them I feel this incredible release. I have a shoebox full of sweet memories or art pages I really like.
Hi Ellen, Wow, that is really powerful. I don’t think I could do that. Amazing. I love the idea of Catharsis!
i think i ll try to journal in 2023 , you ve convenced me
Wonderful!
I read the New York and London Reviews of Books and often will write in my journal my opinion or response to the essays in the publications. They give enough information that sometimes I disagree though more often than not I agree. It all means more ink on the page and gets me thinking.
That is fantastic! I do much the same. Inspiring!
I have journals from 1972 when I was 11 years old and have kept them on and off my entire life. I am now 62. The insights I get on my youth and what was going on now that I can see it through the eyes of an adult are startling. It is like reliving my childhood but the one that it actually was, not the innocent and naive way I experienced it the first time. I love journaling. The act of dating the page and pouring out my thoughts proves to my own self that I exist in this time and space.
That is wonderful. I am so happy for you. My early ones were lost water damage. Thanks so much for watching.
I have also been journaling on and off for years. However, I'm reluctant to read back through them for fear of embarrassment. Most of the entries would be complaints about this and that and how unfair things were.
I’ve started keeping a book journal as well. Basically, a personal review of whatever book I am reading at the moment.
That sounds wonderful!
I'm so happy I found this video (and your channel). I've been writing in ournals since I was a teenager and now am over 50. I write now more than ever and I just think of it as a conversation with myself, about my place in the world. It's a joy to meet others who also enjoy journaling and share their experience. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I am so happy that this resonated with you. Stop be again soon.
Hello HJ. Just watched this video, again. Journaling to me is a private forum where you can be brutally honest with yourself without the worry of any judgement. Without the truth, there can be no advancement in our lives.
Absolutely truly! I am so glad that you enjoyed this one. I love seeing comments on the back catalogue.
Your distinction between a journal and a diary makes me think of a simple system I use: a large book and a small book.
Small book is my everyday notebook, and has my objectives for the day, notes, writing exercises, and whatever else catches my attention. I try to style it after the Bullet Journal method, but it only has a passing resemblance to it.
Large book is for longer thoughts and observations.
That is a wonderful system.
Brilliant video! Thank you so much!
Thank you for watching!
I noticed that journaling is a way to curb my angst of spewing opinions without really thinking of the unintended consequences in my choice of words. It can bring civility to any situation.
That’s a great benefit. It’s like having a built-in editor. All the best!
Your videos literally put me an ease. I don't know what it is about you. Your voice, and passion that you put in these videos just made it so nice to listen to. Thank you Hemmingway. Because of you I got my first ever fountain pen (TWSBI Vac 700R Iris). Thank you for your positve influence. God bless you and your family.
Thank you very much! That is such a kind comment and I appreciate it so much. I am so glad that you enjoy these videos. I wish you all the best always.
I just found you. Watched two videos. So wonderful. Great ideas. So inspiring. Loved you journals. I tend to us Moleskine and Lechtruum. Your voice is calming and love the music. Im subscribing ❤️
Thank you very much! I appreciate that and am looking forward to seeing you in the comments. Welcome!
Hi Hemingway. I really enjoyed watching this video. I admire your photographic skills. Some of the old leather bindings were beautiful and nice to see a great selection of pens. I suspect your Kaweco Brass Sport could be one of your favourite pens for journaling. You have managed to combine some lovely video footage with quite a dramatic soundtrack. I have the feeling you are something of a perfectionist in life.
I watch many videos about keeping a journal, mainly because I want to but cannot quite convince myself I have something meaningful to say. I see some people, mostly ladies, enjoying decorating their journals with stickers, tape, pictures and much more ephemera. That style is not for me. One of my interests is collecting old books, much like yourself. I enjoy reading books of diaries, collections of letters and journals written by people like Samuel Johnson, Pepys etc. Yet, I cannot put my own life down in words. I have tried many times but it only lasts at best for a week or two. I will watch your video again and somehow try to be inspired by your good example.
Hello David, thanks for the kind comment. I do try to put a good product out there. I appreciate that you have noticed. Thank you.
I am sure that you could make an interesting journal of ideas. Like you, I don’t decorate or write for its own sake. People recopy books and whatnot. That is not for me.
You are a very thoughtful person who writes quite well. I am sure there are vast internal landscapes for you to explore. Let me know if I can help and stay well.
I have the same problem as you with starting a journal.😔
this channel is wonderful.
Thank you!
I like carving my own rubber stamps, and using them in my journal. As a visual person, I add sketches, and vary colours too.
That sounds absolutely magical! What a skill!
Great Video, Hemingway. Journaling is a great instrument to get your mind free and to discuss your problems.
Thanks very much! great insight.
Discovered your channel here through YT's algorithm... Shocked that you have an even bigger following (and gold mine of content) on Tiktok! Now following you on both!!
Thank you very much! I appreciate it greatly. UA-cam is tough to build an audience. I do enjoy it though. All the best.
Very nice BGM.
Thank you!
Great video, I took a three week break from journaling. I was bullet journaling and regular journaling, I've decided to stop bullet journaling and just stick to regular journaling. You're the main reason why I started in October and have almost four months worth of entries. Overall good video, good information and good videography.
Thank you Dylan very much. I appreciate your kind words and I hope that you continue to find value in exploring journaling. Keep in touch!
I have watched this video several times. I keep coming back to it for inspiration to go deeper. I have been journaling for several years and find it very helpful and revealing as time goes by. BUT, I haven't went as deep as I should or could have into dealing with the deeper somewhat darker side of me. Each time I watch this I bring more and more out onto the page. Thank you good sir for what you do. By the I'm saving up for one of those beautiful journals you show.
Thank you very much! I really appreciate the kind comments, Dean. It means so much to me. I have some other videos on journaling as well. I did a Live on how Journaling Saved me and I did one at Walden Pond recently that you may enjoy as well. Thank you and if I can help to keep you inspired, please let me know!
I do it daily. It lets me decompress from a busy day. I have started two journals. My first, one is for me to decompress about my days and family. My second, is one I just started doing. I am writing about my family’s vacation. My wife and I took our kids to Legoland for Christmas. I am writing about what rides everyone liked and the rides that were not so great as well.
Thank you for making these videos and keep making them. They are wonderful to watch.
Thank you so much! You are so kind. I am happy to have you here. All the best and keep journaling.
@@HemingwayJones we have never met face to face but watching your videos I feel like all of us are part of a fountain pen and journal family.
@@andrewscott9610 Me too! That’s what I love about this channel.
I love that you have yours on full display. Mine are hidden as I’d be mortified about them being discovered 🤣. That being said, journaling is helping me become less apologetic about who I am
Thank you for this! I just subscribed the other day, so youtube keeps putting your older videos in front of my eyes, and I can't resist the allure of your beautiful journals and chill vibe. I've been keeping a nightly page-a-diary for over 30 years. It is usually just the events of the day with the occasional rant or observation thrown in. I lost my brother to cancer a year and a half ago, around the time I started keeping morning pages (which I learned about from someone in a fountain pen group). It was therapeutic to have a place to rage, to grieve, to work through the loss and the huge life changes. Morning pages are basically a stream of consciousness, which can be useful, but I've learned that trying to confine yourself to what other people think you should include in a journal is quite limiting. Right now I have separate books for morning pages, projects, sketches, book reviews, goals and to do's, quotes that speak to me, work... I'm thinking that I will eventually merge a lot of these into one "book of my life." I think having so many is partly due to the urge to use new notebooks! I will say that keeping morning pages did really help me see how my undiagnosed but obvious ADHD has really limited my potential, and has forced me to find strategies that work for me. And looking back through older journals and seeing how long ago I started a project that I still haven't finished, despite my initial enthusiasm, is a real wake-up call! Thank you for your beautiful, thoughtful, and heartfelt videos.
Hello, and thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. I deeply appreciate them and am very happy that my channel is resonating with you.
I am so sorry to hear about your brother. I am so glad to hear that journaling helped to assuage some of the anxiety and cavernous loss that followed. I like how you use many books. I tend to use one at a time.
I did a recent video at Walden Pond on Journaling that you may like and a Live from the beginning of the year called “How Journaling Saved My Life” may add some value as well.
Thanks for being here with me and us. I wish you all the best. Please stop by again soon.
@HemingwayJones I picked up the Thoreau book from the library after watching the Walden Pond video. My cat really enjoyed your video as well. He couldn't keep his little paws off the screen, the tiny chaos agent.
@@evilcritter Nice! I may begin making content for cats! Thank you! Enjoy the book.
My favorite channel - you are a pure spirit. Love your content!
Wow! Thanks so much for saying so. I appreciate it.
Thanks for a thoughtful video that has prompted some self-reflection. I’ve journaled off and on for 50 years, but the frequency increased with the Covid lockdown, and my recuperation from Covid. I used that time to practice penmanship, which had deteriorated over the years and is now much more legible, and to rediscover my attraction to fountain pens. Hand writing in a journal slows down my thoughts, and fosters deeper reflection than simply thinking would. The act of writing intentionally is pleasurable,even if I am not recording “deep thoughts.” In fact, I have come to believe that simply describing the ephemera of daily life is valuable to me. Trying to describe the shade of gray in the overcast sky, or the noises that surround me in the city, for example, helps me to understand what I notice (and what I seldom notice), and this tells me about myself and how I approach life. I think, in journaling, that it is a mistake to wait until one has something to say. Writing will reveal oneself to oneself, even if is only bemoaning a clogged sink!
Thank you so much for the insightful comment. I love your perspective in this. Thanks very much and stay inspired.
Very impressive set of journal books! Noticed the craftmanship of Bottega Obscura. Currently working on an enormous Epica book. My 4th one.
That sounds wonderful. I love Bottega Obscura. They are my favorites. All the best.
I’m used to journal on several notebooks, one is truly personal, another for job and another for ideas and notes, this is an a6 size that fits in my bag and is very useful because I can grab things that may not seem important, but turn out to trigger some other thoughts when I recap at the end of the day, thanks for having such a great channel.
Thank you so much for stopping by and offering your great perspective. All the best.
Great video! I usually start my journals out with a summary of my day, then my mind tends to wander a bit. I have a separate travel journal I always keep nearby for random thoughts and ideas.
Hello Simon, that sounds like a great way to do it. Thanks for checking in and I am glad that you liked the video! Thanks!
Superb channel
It means a lot
Thankyou
Thank you so much! I am so glad you are enjoying it. You keep me going.
Thanks so much I’ve been looking for something like this for a while but I could never find the perfect video, but I’m pretty sure this was the best I’ve seen.
Wow, thanks so much. I’ll keep speaking about this.
I wrote in my gratitude journal everyday. It really helps me. I end the evening with more thoughts about the day. I would like to expand my journal experience as I tend yo write more than the space allows.
It sounds like you are definitely ready for a free form journal. There are so many nice ones to choose from.
I relate to what you said about reflecting on certain dates. When COVID first started, in my journal, I predicted that it would "blow over in a few months" and boy could that be farther from the truth. Great video, Hemingway, I look forward to incorporating some of your techniques to my own journaling.
Thank you, Zach! I appreciate the kind words and perspective. I go back to 9/11 and the day my daughter was born. So much resonance.
Interesting segment. The mention of taking twenty minutes put aside for journaling is a useful idea. Perhaps also taking five or ten additional minutes to read what has been written previously would be useful as well, and might seed the field for further unfolding. Thank you for taking the time to cover these ideas.
That is an absolutely stupendous suggestion. Thank you! Thanks for the kind comments too.
Thank you so much for your words and perspectives on writing and journaling, I have difficulties to write in my journals for months now since I have been hospitalised... I try to have this appeal again but it seems like a dead fire and it makes me really sad but I know that sometimes we need to let time do it
(English is not my first language, my appoligies for the mistakes)
You made no mistakes at all in your comment. Good job. Thank you for the kind comment. I hope that my channel might inspire you who wrote when you can. In the meantime, take care and keep in touch. All the best.
Thi s speaks to me directly. I Journal daily . I agree with what you said. I also watched your 5 top pens - have them all. I wonder if you have any Edison pens from Brian Gray’s Signature line or production models. I like them, but you will not around if you do not. Bill
Hello and thank you. This is probably my favorite and most important video. I wish more people could get to see it. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Sadly, I do not -yet! Have an Edison pen. All the best.
Yes, I have journals for my daily writings as well as journals for my art ideas and crafts. Diagrams for the things I want to make and sources for product. Also what and where the inspiration came from. I love to know I safely have all my thoughts and ideas tucked away for immediate use or future use and review. I have been journaling for about 2 years and it's been an interesting endeavor. Thanks for a lovely video. Your journals are beautiful and your advise is spot on. Thank You!
That sounds wonderful. Thanks for the insight.
Beatifull journals HJ. hope to see more of this very inspiring
Thanks Patrick! I appreciate it.
Where do you buy those beautiful cover journals? Thanks. Love your videos!
Which ones? I showed so many here. Thanks!
This is very good. I started to journal this year and you've been doing it for so many years. I think I will continue with it. What I do is just score myself based on some markers like sleep, focus, direction throughout the day and progress made and give myself an overall score in work and other things I do. I also do a tally at the end of the week and draw a graph to see how consistent I was. I should do a monthly catchup also.
Wonderful! Way to go.
I love you're videography, and I am so excited to see you're channel evolve. I have a feeling you won't be a small channel for long with all the great content you are putting out!
Thank you, Caspar! You are entirely too kind. I appreciate it. I will strive to bring you interesting and engaging content each week. All the best!
Can you tell me more about your journals? They’re beautiful. Who makes them, where do you get them. They look like antique books.
Thank you, Kimberly! I get them from Bottega Obscura on Etsy. He does wonderful work and will customize for you. All the best and thanks for watching.
@@HemingwayJones Thank you so much for the reply. I'll check it out.
@@kimberlyhanson965 My Pleasure.
This is very helpful a nice way to organize your thoughts. My struggle with journaling is sticking with one book. I jump around from book to book I have yet to actually fill a journal. Does anyone else have this problem?
I've been writing memories/memoirs since the sixties as a teenaged boy. I still do--have written around 25 pages of legal pad in the last couple of days. People, please don't get all wrapped up in 'journaling' and silly little fancy notebooks! Write--write freely whether in cursive as I do, or printing--but write and practice. You'll find, as I did decades ago, that 'stream of consciousness' writing will come to you, whether with your pen or your computer. The important part is the doing. Some days I'll actually go back 30 or 40 years and look at what I was thinking and what I was remembering. In this day of silly 'smart' phones and e-mail, what legacy will we be leaving to our families and descendants? In my family we treasure letters written by long-dead relatives from the 19th and 20th centuries, just like old photographs--which our digital cameras will lose...
Love this! The most important thing is the writing. I would differ from you in that a sturdy notebook will ensure they survive. My spiral notebooks were lost and some weee water-damaged, but once I’ve switched to nicer bindings they have all stayed together. Love your comment and perspective. I hope you visit again.
@@HemingwayJones Question for you: do you use those typewriters on your shelves or are they decoration? I satisfy my itchy typing fingers most of the time these days with a Logitech mech keyboard on my desktop that's as fast typing as any of my office electronic machines.
HJ---Great piece, tangibly instructive and by drawing on your personal experience/use it better illuminates possibilities for viewers. I have a lot of empty pages and always will, I suspect as the internal rarely makes it onto a page.
Thanks very much! I was hoping this video would reach some one. Thanks for the nice comment.
@@HemingwayJones Your content is terrific and totally resonates with me. Appreciate your efforts pulling it together and putting it out there!
Hello HJ! Loved this video of yours! You always put in so much care and your passion for it is very apparent and contagious, especially in the last parts of the video (very beautiful and artistic).
Would you ever be interested in making a video about the journals that you use, if you use any specific ones? I would value your thought out and thorough opinion very much.
Have a wonderful day :)
Thank you so much! I am so glad that you enjoyed it. Comments like this make it all worthwhile. Thanks you! I can do one on the different journals. Thanks.
I’ve journaled for nearly 30 years. Include strong opinions, details, and lots of sex. You will laugh at your old self. It’s probably healthy to list things you’re grateful for from time to time.
Hello Justin! Thank you for such an excellent comment. It sounds as if your life has been awesome! -and your journal will stand as a testament to it. I love your voice in this comment I would love to hear more from you. Thanks for this and I wish you all the best.
Great tips. We thank you! I’m curious though, if you keep in mind that someone will read your journals when you write write.
Thank you. I do and my wife and daughter, I imagine. It does not restrain me though. I could see other self-censoring. All the best.
@@HemingwayJones I try not to restrain myself much for a few reasons. One is my wife and kids would probably not read all my writings. Another is that I like the idea that they will find some interesting things about me that they didn’t know previously.
I do restrain myself when it comes to commenting about others. I may talk about how I feel but without mentioning details about why. Cheers.
I agree so much with you! I am a real person and they know me already.
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Thank you!
Thanks for this video, HJ. I journal too, and in my case, journaling has helped me deal with brain cancer and the resulting health problems the cancer and the chemotherapy have caused me. Journaling has helped me retain my sanity, and I have managed to deal with my health-related crisis' without suffering a jot of depression or anxiety or any other psychological problems.
I do have a question for you though. At 2.09 in the video, you are seen journaling in a large journal, my question being what kind of journal are you using? I have not had good luck finding a blank journal like the big journal you are using. Thank you very much, HJ, keep up the great work producing these superb videos. Thank you.
Hello Wolverine! Thank you so much for sharing your inspiring story. It is amazing that you made it through that and truly heroic. I am sure you have a lot to say in your journal. So, yes, that is my current journal that I am using now and it’s from Barnes and Noble. And for what it is, it is pretty great: inexpensive at $60, decent paper (Florentina) and is quite large. I love that it looks Medieval. It’s $60 on their website. The only bad thing is that it splays and quickly and there is nothing to do about it. I think it makes it even more vintage, but you should know.
Link to the journal, I also have the one that looks like heraldry. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/patina-brown-dragon-with-studs-embossed-italian-leather-lined-journal-fiorentina/1118227010;jsessionid=F160A1382087898FFF605C9B9381BEC6.prodny_store02-atgap10?ean=9781615583744
@@HemingwayJones - Thank you very much for the B&N link. I will go visit the local store and pick one up. Thank you.
@@Wolverine3660 sounds good. Let me know if you find it. All the best.
Great video about this! I've been debating journaling but leaning towards doing it, especially since I have about 15 fountain pens that I don't use much. Wanted to ask you this...I just got a bottle of Noodler's 54th Massachusetts ink today, I inked it up in my TWSBI Vac and I love it. Have you heard anything bad about these inks as far as causing damage to pens? The only one I have seen that can do that is Baystate Blue but everything else seems to be ok judging from the reviews I have read. Thanks for what you do! Really admire your videos!
Thank you Brandon! I have heard rumors of Noodler’s damaging pens. I would check his Ph content. I usually don’t worry about these things. Inks are fairly corrosive, but I think it would take a lot to damage a TWSBI. The plunger may be the weak point. I’ve heard Nathan of Noodler’s pushing back on these rumors. Wish you all the best.
I honestly love your content and you inspire me to write more, especially with my fountain pen. I've been journaling a lot more lately and even writing in a book that has a lot of writing prompts in it. I was just curious about something. What are some cheaper notebooks I can write in with my fountain pen that has thicker paper so it won't bleed onto the next page? I only have two notebooks that are almost finished so I was just curious about your suggestions
Hello Jackson! Way to go! I’m happy to here that you are writing and staying inspired. Wishing you all the best. I tend to like hardcover books like the ones I showed. However, I use some for TikTok filming so I get a good sense of some others. Atoms to Astronauts has some thick cover notebooks that are heavy enough to journal in and have very nice paper. Anything Rhodia, Claire Fontaine, or Ayush as well. All very good. Sadly, Moleskine is pretty awful.
Hey, Hemingway! Enjoyed the video. May I ask where you get your journals ? I've recently bought my first pen after coming across your TikTok. I got a Kaweco sport in brass. I've become interested in Journaling as well, however I'm not interested in a normal, plain journal you can buy. I'm interested in something with character like yours
Hi Kyle, sure which one? Some I get traveling, some from Botega Obscura, and some from B&N.
Hemingway over the years I have tried to journal but always put it aside. But when I started using fountain pens I journal every day for three years now. Question: to be totally honest in ones journal writing are you concerned about others reading it? Thanks for your videos. BLESSINGS
Hello and thanks for the kind words. I am never concerned with anyone reading it. I am assuming at this point that one day my daughter will. I even put little Easter Eggs in there for her. All the best.
Does anyone know where to find some of those awesome thick leather journals. I'd love to have one... or ten but I can't find them.
There are some on Etsy. Even Barnes & Noble has some decent ones. Good Luck!
@@HemingwayJones Thanks!
@@iannoel380 My Pleasure! Botega Obscura is my favorite. Pricey, but amazing.
Journaling doesn't help me. What do I write about? Writing about my day, is too repetitive; " I got up, had a cup of coffee, showered, got dressed, etc etc "
Hello Teresa, I have a lot of videos on this subject and with many more coming. You have an entire lifetime of experience to contemplate and explore. You can create a library of your goals, dreams, ideas. You can attempt to answer life’s big questions. You can challenge, refute or support your own beliefs. You can explore your personal concept of happiness. So much! Your mind is vast!
What is the difference between Diary and Journal? Bests regards from Germany, Carolina
Hello! I think that they are mostly interchangeable. To me though, a diary is a personal confessional, while a journal has a purpose. It would be a good UA-cam idea.
@@HemingwayJones Thank you so much for the quick and dear reply! I would really like to see a video with the theme "pens I regret buying, or that are not worth the price paid". I really like your channel and I hope you keep making your videos. A video where you show ALL your inks would also be interesting! Hugs from Germany.
@@carolinavoss5967 Thank you very much for the kind words and for the excellent suggestion! I can most definitely do so. I think it’s more interesting when there are issues or something more complex with a pen that go beyond a straightforward review. Thanks, stop in again, and all the best to you!