Around the beginning of March ‘09, I began emailing my journal entry to my small group for my accountability and as an encouragement for the practice. After a couple weeks I began to feel like I was spamming my friends and I decided to blog my entries instead – then they could read if they wanted. It was a great decision.
In a written journal, it can be difficult to quickly and easily locate entries about particular subjects. Indexing would be tasking, and archives grow and take room. For me, a key benefit to journaling is the ability to reflect on entries. To quote an article over at lifehacker.com – “Using blog software as your journal tool has several other benefits: You can log into your journal from anywhere, tag your entries, [and] use text and calendar-based search.”
That means, for instance, that when I have a journal entry like Dude, Where’s My Talent, and tag it with direction it will be associated with my post What Is Good. I can search through all of my journal entries easily and find, in my own words with scriptures that have spoken to me, encouragement, wisdom, and admonishments.