I’ve( 22M ) been an overthinker for almost my entire life. Not only that, I have hyper-anxiety and overwhelmness. I haven’t been scheduled with a psychiatrist so far.
A few months ago, I seriously realized that I was wasting my time on devices( phones, laptops etc) and haven’t been paying attention to real life and responsibilities. Because I had made devices as a way to escape from reality.
Then I made a schedule to maintain that included low and controlled use of devices and some other things. Journaling was also a part of that.
I began to write my daily events on a journal app in my phone. I had a physical diary that I started to use to write down advices, methods, facts, important instructions that I was gathering from youtube. That diary is now filled around 60%.
I continued writing my daily journal in the app for 1.5 months and then lost the drive to continue for unknown reason. Consider this one of my main psychological problem. I lose drive very quickly.
Then I realized that, when I continued journaling, I had more control of my overall daily activity that I used to do. I had less laziness, more energy, more drive, healthy sleep schedule etc. And now, it seems that I’ve sunken into my peak rabbithole again.
Now I’m seeking advices from people who turned their life in a positive way by writing journals as a first step. Any other advices except journaling is also welcomed.
I use Joplin mostly with a two way NAS sync, but it’s not usually profound for me. Doesn’t really include my day to day experience, and acts more like an external memory bank and junk drawer.
Looks like this.
Really I’ve been relying heavily on Signal’s note to self feature, while Joplin is more long form in my case.
Snake Juice?
On extended fasts you need some minerals mixed in with some daily drinking water. That’s just what the internet went with as the name for it at the time. Some meathead youtuber coined it lol. His mix is outdated info these days.
Signal has a note to self feature?
Yep.
It’s quite handy considering there’s a desktop app too. So I also use it as an alternative to stuff like syncing OS clipboards between various computers, since the idea of Microsoft having access to mine gives me the ick.
Yeah, I use obsidian now for notes to self instead of Google keep but signal sounds good for things I don’t want to organize in the moment. As well as a synced clipboard
I’ve started to use “Capacities” recently.
I just write down events of the day 1 sentence in a line. Timestamps excluded.
Oooh a block-based editor, for an over-thinker I bet that’s like crack haha.
Glad you discovered ways to organize your noisy mind. I’ll have to share Capacities with a dear friend who has a mind more like yours.