could users please try to suggest a : best uses for this journal?

[TimBourne]

Dear GTD - please see the photo attached of a journal book , which was suggested by one of the users on this fourm website ' after I made a post about the topic of reading Cal N. book.
https://forum.gettingthingsdone.com...-with-adhd-or-autism.19482/page-3#post-150647 .
It was that post - because Cal basically wrote something : that it is suppose to be 'one of the best things : to use journals , journaling'

But since i made that post : i basically probably haven't been using journaling similar to Cal for writing as an author as he did ?

I literally a certain amount : just something very inconsistent ,small - write thoughts / ideas in the back of it (to summarize.

then about 3 days ago - ' i had idea to follow a type of youtube video use for a journal ' called : Urge tracking (to stop scrolling) : basically logging /writing every time before you check notifications (and have urges in real life that cause you to want to check) - but i feel i should really stop doing it now because that kind of thing isn't helping me?

The title of this could be: could users please try to suggest a : best uses for this journal? so i can use it instead of wasting leaving it .

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I just spent time , watching that 10 minute video on youtube which was recommended by A.I. on the topic suggested
it came to mind - that I believe a user on this fourm called @FocusGuy - actually did link me that exact person 'bullet journal' user , his 'offical book - i think
but I never ended up getting it - i was put off because it seemed 'too high ' for myself.

But watching that first 10 minute video - i have mixed thoughts such as : he actually tried to make it pretty easy to understand -
which a personal like myself 24 years old could actually try to follow with (with this similar sized journal i have?

Is it worth that I try ' this bullet method technqiue he shows videos on then? in the front of the book journal i have - just test it?
my inution (intuition) says : I feel like its going to be a struggle to follow it?

But at the same time... HERIN

to my memory also @Mrs-Polifax - was linked to journaling with bullet?

users maybe interested could also be @gtd solo-studente or @morn and @Mark R

P.S. I was specifically attracted to what bullet journal said at start of video : about setting/writing intentions (- becuase it came to mind thats actually like very similar, or the same like what 'james clear' author says you need to do for productivity - right.

and i've shared previous post about 'atomic habits I think on this fourm .

 

[morn]

Gotta ask yourself, what problem am I trying to solve.

Journaling can be many things. A lot of the "research" around it like most things is mostly nonsense, especially once you start applying all the frameworks people like to use / promote. Cal Newport and Ryder Carrol are long on sizzle, short on steak.

Writing is a mode of thinking. That is its primary benefit when it comes to something like "journaling". It can effectively raise your functional IQ as it provides some guardrails for thinking. Everyone has a limit to how complex they can think through any given problem without externalizing their thinking. Consider how some people can easily solve math problems in their head while others will have to write them out. But eventually everyone will have to externalize their mathematical thinking, whether via paper, abacus, calculator, spreadsheet, etc.

Journaling does the same thing for us. If you have trouble making sense of a given problem you are having, writing it out MIGHT help. It will certainly be better than ruminating on a problem that remains unsolved. And you have a traceable record of your thoughts should want to revisit them.

So I wouldn't get too caught up in all these frameworks for journaling. Just start writing things out you'd like to find some more clarity on. GTD in a sense is a form of journaling, so if you are practicing it, you already understand some of the benefit of externalizing thinking.

Just try it out. Then read / watch / listen a little bit every few weeks to see if you find something helpful. Getting into the weeds on framework is just going to delay the primary benefit of journaling: externalized thinking. Your intuition here is likely wise. Just start writing about things you want to think thru more clearly. But don't make it a chore.

You could even journal on why you think you need some formal technique.

You said you are autistic. We tend to love formalism. So if you need some formalism to get started, choose a basic framework. I have a very formal journaling technique. Again, the experts say I am autistic as well. But my own system works well for me. It's the result of many years of writing. One of the worst things I have done is looking for the better technique or set of rules. But it's hard to avoid for us.