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diary book

  • 20-07-2017 11:36pm
    #1
    cena
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,071 ✭✭✭✭


    Do you use a diary book?
    I have never owned or written in one.


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  • #2
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    I wouldn't incriminate myself that easy ;-)


  • #3
    Barry Badrinath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Dear Diary,

    Suck the back of them.

    Love,

    SFP.


  • #4
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,419 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Just for work stuff.
    Instead of saying out loud that I'm gonna kill work colleagues, I write it down furiously.

    **** the security guard , he's getting a special kind of torture.

    Pleb across from me , burned alive.


  • #5
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,214 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I think when we were in Primary school a teacher made us write a diary every so often.


  • #6
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    cena wrote: »
    Do you use a diary book?
    I have never owned or written in one.

    No, but I have owned several Durty Books

    21/25



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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I have kept a diary, almost without missing a day, since 1974. It's a great reference source.


  • #8
    Conservative
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 596 ✭✭✭Conservative


    Never. I have tried using work diaries but usually stop after a few days. Prefer to keep it all in the noggin.

    For those users who have been on Boards for 15+ years I suppose their post history is a diary of sorts.


  • #9
    Armchair Andy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    Aiyana Black Percussionist wrote:
    I have kept a diary, almost without missing a day, since 1974. It's a great reference source.


    Holy fvck.


  • #10
    Fathom
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 9,336 CMod ✭✭✭✭Fathom


    cena wrote: »
    Do you use a diary book? I have never owned or written in one.
    Only for recording dreams online.


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Armchair Andy wrote: »
    Holy fvck.

    When I was involved in projects around the world the evening write up of my diary passed many hours sitting in tents or shelters with little other distraction. It also helped me build a permanent record of peoples I came across or places I saw. I have never been able to replicate the process digitally. It was also often a cathartic exercise.


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  • #12
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,594 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Aiyana Black Percussionist wrote: »
    When I was involved in projects around the world the evening write up of my diary passed many hours sitting in tents or shelters with little other distraction. It also helped me build a permanent record of peoples I came across or places I saw. I have never been able to replicate the process digitally. It was also often a cathartic exercise.

    I kept one when I was a kid for a few years and as a result, have a vivid memory of each event I wrote about when reading back over it. There's not a chance I'd have remembered any of that if it wasn't written down.

    Really envious that you've managed to maintain one for so long!


  • #13
    cherryghost
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 17,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭cherryghost


    Aiyana Black Percussionist wrote: »
    When I was involved in projects around the world the evening write up of my diary passed many hours sitting in tents or shelters with little other distraction. It also helped me build a permanent record of peoples I came across or places I saw. I have never been able to replicate the process digitally. It was also often a cathartic exercise.

    That's amazing, fair play. I try start a diary every now and again but it always falls by the wayside after a few weeks.


  • #14
    Sabre0001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,499 ✭✭✭Sabre0001


    Aiyana Black Percussionist wrote: »
    I have kept a diary, almost without missing a day, since 1974. It's a great reference source.

    Any standout entries? Do you read back over them every now and again?

    🤪



  • #15
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,208 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    I've kept a dinner diary for the past 4 years. Does that count? Says what we ate for dinner, and if on holidays, where we ate it. I bring it on holidays with me too.


  • #16
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,639 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Used to keep one of sorts. Not a diary but more like notebooks jotting down specific 'moments' - part narrative but also quite descriptive, as in the date and time, surroundings, etc.

    I also stuck in stuff like little drawings, items and photos. Sometimes other people (both random/fleeting and known to me) added little entries or doodles.

    I maintained them for about 10 years, from late teens to about 30 and they're stashed away safely in a wooden chest in the attic now. Must be about 9 or 10 of them. Some day I'll read them all again. I'm really glad I did it.

    It's actually just struck me writing this that a) I haven't thought of them for years and b) they were kinda like a proto social media account that only I could see :D


  • #17
    homosapien91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭homosapien91


    I have tried and failed to keep a diary.. I imagine it would be similar to Bridget Jones Diary - I drink too much, smoke too much and have rubbish luck with men


  • #18
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sabre0001 wrote: »
    Any standout entries? Do you read back over them every now and again?

    I look at them from time to time.

    Mountain tribes in Papua New Guinea, hunkered in during a storm in Antarctica, family bereavement, birth of children, loneliness, exhilaration at achievements. It's quite varied and endless.


  • #19
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Did it for about a week when I was 12.


  • #20
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,807 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Just for work stuff.
    I don't, work-wise, and it wrecks my manager's head. "You need a diary, and you need to keep note of everything."


    Eh, my brain is amazing (and he knows it). I remember stuff, and I even invent stuff if needs be (and he believes my memory over computers). I'll say no more.


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