📘 Summarizing a diary every week

Rosefinch

I’m trying to summarise each week - that makes the monthly summarise easier (but I still read through everything).

maxmoon

Rosefinch I’m trying to summarise each week

How exactly are you doing this?

I read the diary every month and write down the stuff I forgot or I still want to do to, to not forget it in the new month. So in general every month brings a new todo list for me. But it's not a summary, it's just a reminder...

Luna-Sea

maxmoon

I do my best to write in my journal every day - even if it's a short blurb.

I have been including things like:

info about my moods and any triggers,
about my pain (or other symptoms) and any identifiable triggers and what I've done that day (I.e. meds, physio, stretching, etc),
key info about what I did each day... and at the very least, I put in my "roses" and "thorns",
I often also use journal prompts on days when I have time to answer them,
I also keep a gratitude journal, alongside my other journal,
etc...

As far as how I have been keeping my journal, I have been using an app. I have a hard time writing with a pen/pencil, due to my arthritis (from lupus), so I find it a lot easier to use an online/text style journal.

I have been pretty successful at keeping up with writing in my journal at least once a day - I only have had a few days where I was too ill or too busy to write in my journal.

Rosefinch

I have a todo saying I shall reflect (including summarise) the week, plan the new week and putting up a new todo for next week. The reflection is only a few points, which are helpful to highlight what’s happened, including thoughts, feelings, behaviours and wellbeing as for planning the new week - what shall I do more or less of.