Welcome to the Focus and Chill Podcast, episode 58! Today we'll share Journaling Tips: Traditional vs Digital Journaling, Gratitude Practices, Mind Mapping & more!

TOPICS

1. Journaling strategies
   1. Traditional vs digital
      1. Benefits of Digital
         1. Security
         2. Organization
         3. Searchability
      2. Benefits of Traditional
         1. Feels nice
         2. Freeform
         3. Can throw bits of paper away
   2. Smart journaling apps
      1. Not really journaling, more like e-therapist
      2. Concerns around having intimate thoughts sent to the cloud (even if they don’t store your journals in the cloud)
      3. Advancements in local GPTs running on your smartphone
   3. Gratitude practices
      1. Writing a single line vs a story
      2. Getting into the feeling of it makes a difference according to Huberman
   4. Prompts vs no prompts
      1. Different prompts for different times of day/emotional states
         1. Morning - Jeremy prefers tactical: what are the challenges of the day likely to be? How can I make today fun
         2. During the day: emotional processing - why is this person annoying me so much?
            1. Muttering can help?
         3. Evening/scheduled weekly/monthly/seasonal reflection: strategic/divergent thinking - what did I learn? How am I living up to my values?
   5. Writing a day log vs a simple story of the day
      1. Lifelog helpful for historical reflection - what was life like in 2021?
   6. Weekly/monthly reflection
      1. Reflect on insights from last week
      2. What have I learned?
      3. How did I go with last week’s experiments?
      4. How am I Iiving up to my values?
      5. What concerns do I have?
      6. lite tasks (can get done in less than 2 minutes)
      7. tasks to add to the to-do list
      8. Non-actionable but useful reference info to integrate into the second brain.
      9. Experiments to try for the week ahead
2. Mind mapping
   1. Implementing journaling in mindmaps (Freeplane); possible future episodes.

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