Does blogging count as journaling? 🤔

@nathanrhale yes

@JohnPhilpin Whew, that's a relief. Sometimes I find myself thinking, "I should journal more" but really I journal a fair amount already...just online.

@nathanrhale In my mind, yes.

@nathanrhale It is for me.

@patrickrhone Thanks, I think so too...especially this new old form of blogging that we're seeing a small renaissance of.

@Gaby I find it very statisfying at this stage of my life to treat my blog as a kind of journal.

@nathanrhale same here, for years I struggled trying to figure out what format my blog would have if I started one. Ever since I started treating it as a way of journalism I find myself writing more and more. No matter how little.

@nathanrhale Yes, I like to think of it as one form of journal, but not the only. Any thought that I want to record or get more clarity from others goes to my blog. The more personal, just-for-me stay far away from the connected world.

@nathanrhale To make the answer even more concretely yes for myself, I set this up in IFTTT to create an entry in Day One when I post to my blog.

@bennorris It might not let me really share it in IFTTT (I don’t actually know much of how it works), but it’s a simple applet that takes any new feed item from my site and creates a journal entry in Day One.

@Gaby EXACTLY. Approaching it this way makes it so much easier.

@bennorris GREAT idea!

@bennorris yup ... I do that ... in fact I was thinking about this

@JohnPhilpin Oh, good thinking! I wonder if the JSON feed could be used for that.

@bennorris maybe a question for @manton ?

@JohnPhilpin @bennorris I use Day One but haven't done anything for automation… It should be possible. Sounds like the existing RSS → Day One applet would be the best place to start.

@manton yes I am doing that ... through IFTTT / was just thinking of being able to move the backlog into DayONE that predates when I started the recipe.

// @bennorris

@JohnPhilpin I see. Probably someone would need to write a script for that. (I'd like to publish more examples of import/export scripts for similar tasks.)