This year, I wanted to start keeping a reading journal.
That’s certainly not a revolutionary idea, but I still managed to get stuck on a simple technical consideration: should I use a dedicated journal? Or write them in my existing journal, next to my usual entries? But then, how would I be able to easily spot my reading entries and distinguish them from the journal entries?
In the end, I decided I would do everything in my existing journal but that I would write reading entries in a different color from standard journal entries. It’s simple enough while still making it very easy to instantly tell them apart.
What would you do?
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I keep everything in chronological order and usually just put the review on a different coloured background. I like the idea that my opinion of a book is coloured by whatever else is going on in my life so keeping it in order makes sense and it means I can explain to myself why a re-read might hit different later.
I have a digital scrapbook for a journal though so things are easy to insert and re-sort compared to a paper notebook.
I have a digital scrapbook for a journal though so things are easy to insert and re-sort compared to a paper notebook.
It sure helps :)
Thx for sharing!
A different color pen :)
I may not be neutral here, but I like your idea ;)
Flip it over. You’d write on the back of other used pages and upside down, so it’s clear which notes belong with which.
That’s clever! And since I will have no shame stealing your idea, this also means I could easily have at least three different kind of entries in a single journal :)
