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'Speed Journaling' is a concept and an exercise I created to help those who want to journal start journaling ~ It also has been used to pull together a years worth of journaling into a book report type synopsis of your year. Does anyone read their journals and then write a synopsis of what they read?

i have never heard of doing this before, but might consider doing this once a month or every two months.

I have been doing that for each of my diaries. I read through the diary, taking notes of key things. I then print out those summary notes and put them in the front of the diary. That way later if I want to jump through to a certain incident that summary acts as a table of contents for me.

I like Lisa's suggestion. That is going to help me a great deal.

I rarely read back through my journals as in between the little pictures and daily stuff, there's a lot of [censored]! I'm a single mum of two autistic boys 12 and 3, and a teenage daughter, my journal is my sanity where I can have a really good whinge without hurting anyone.

It sounds interesting. One of the things I like about keeping my journal on my computer is being able to search it, like by a keyword or phrase...