Last week I wrote about daily diary idea I learned from Lynda Barry’s book Syllabus. Well, here’s how it went…

I got really excited and set up a frame/template to use in my GoodNotes app with the intention of spending 5 minutes in the evening to complete my diary. Then the evening came and instead of opening up my iPad to write my entry, I went to bed. In the morning, I thought to myself, Maybe it’s better to do it every morning. You’ll be more consistent that way. I set a timer and completed my first day.

Then the next day rolled around and it seemed a little more challenging to remember what I did or saw or heard the day before. I thought 5 minutes a day would be so easy. Ha!

This experiment taught me that I don’t attend to the visuals around me or I see so much it was difficult to determine what I should actually record. I also found it challenging to remember things that I heard. I think I need to jot that immediately because the next day or even just minutes later, I’d forget.

Not sure if I’ll keep it up, but maybe it’s a nice strategy to have in my back pocket for when I need a reminder to be present.