Sometimes we have to be careful with men to call them journals because men just don't keep diaries. It becomes a semiotic thing: When we say "diary", we envision a younger female keeping a private diary. But people always kept diaries and they called them that. It wasn't done publicly but many diaries were published and still are. The way I decided to do it was to extend the diary as a list into more of a calendar, in my case by day of the month. In the beginning in was basically a 5x7 index card folded in half which I kept in my top pocket (back in the day when I wore Oxfords with a suit) . I would use it as a things-to-do card but also use it for jotting down song titles and lyric ideas. I had a friend that did that and I started to do it. Then I started using spiral-bound notebooks and Moleskines in the 90s and then an electronic diary with Evernote on a smartphone ~2009.
Excerpts from the handwritten diary
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