I am looking to start getting into this. But I have never enjoyed writing. I also feel a little iffy knowing that my diaries are sitting around somewhere in my room and my family can find it at any moment. If I were to type it would be faster, more secure as I can encrypt it, and it would not get lost as easily as I can upload the encrypted file to a cloud.
However, is typing any less effective at making you feel better than writing?
I use a site called Penzu. My whole purpose for journaling is to get things out and to release my anxiety, not necessarily for documenting my life, although I do go back and reflect on some of the stuff I write. Most of the time I don’t re-read any of it.
That’s why I used to maintain a blog (a secret one, whose address no one knew). Till the day I realised there’s too much there which I don’t want to be able to go through, and deleted the blog in a snap.