BellaOnline Forums Beauty and Self Journals What is your favorite Journaling tool?

I am interested to hear from the journalers on this list!

What is your favorite journaling tool?
Is a specific pen?
Your computer?
A favorite type of journal or paper?

The possibilities are limitless.

I love to journal with my favorite Xonex pen. You can check out these out in my product review section of the Journals page at BellaOnline.

I use a pen in a decorated sketchbook; the particular pen varies as I take a fancy to one for awhile and then another the next month. I keep the pen with the journal at all times because it is so frustrating to have a great idea but I can't find my pen!

I picture the rest of you at a lady's writing desk with beautifully turned out journals and plumed pens, but I'm sorry to say that's not the case with me. My handwriting is awful and my desk is covered in income tax forms and ugly staplers and other typical items of a utility type nature that one might find in a home office.

A long time ago part of my duties at my job (outside the home) were to type entries in a journal that my boss was keeping for his son. Some of the items that he dictated were so touching and personal that I couldn't believe that he wanted a secretary to be privy to them. I asked him about this and he said that he wanted to be sure that his boy would be able to read them when he grew up! This made sense to me so that's the reason that I keep my diary on the computer. My horrible penmanship would make my journaling efforts for naught!

I guess I'm with you msbaby. I use spiral notebooks and many abreviations. I doubt anyone else could ever read what I've scrawled.

How do the rest of you plan to preserve your journals? Is there a special box, filing cabinet or hard drive that you keep them on? Do you journal for yourself or so that your babies will be able to read them when they grow up?

I like a Five Star Mead notebook and a Bic Papermate (fine) pen for journaling morning pages. Everything else goes on my laptop.

I, too, have favorite pens that I go through. I'll love it until it runs out of ink... then on to a new one LOL. I also like to find fun journals at Barnes and Noble.

I am a journal junkie... I probably have 6 or 7 that are still unused - I just can't stop buying them LOL!

I love journals too and am forever picking up pretty ones. I really like moleskine journals but they are pricey. Occasionally I'll find some little store who has them on clearance because they can't seem to sell them at regular prices.

I like the writer's notebook type with little pictures and poems on each page - they inspire me to write and I usually pick a picture that portrays my feelings at the time. Like when my brother passed away, I wrote a poem for him and chose a page that had a picture of a young woman sitting out near a garden on an old stump with a journal in her lap and looking off into the distance, like she was remembering something nice. It just portrayed the mood I was in.

Thanks so much for sharing your favorite journaling tool.

I am curious do you decorate your own sketchbooks or do you buy them already pre-made? Have any photos you can show us?
We would be honored to see them and see if we can get any ideas.

Melissa Waters, Editor
Journals at BellaOnline