#did journaling

[system404singletnotfound]

App recommendations for systems: Daylio

Since our old host discovered our system in early 2020, we have tried out a lot of different journaling methods, both digital and physical, and Daylio is the one that we have enjoyed the most! It’s easy to log who is fronting and you can get a lot of interesting stats about your system.

In Daylio, you can create activities, which you can then select from when writing out a journal entries. I use this to log what alters had fronted that day.

I also use it for symptom tracking, where I can turn my symptoms into activities too.

And it makes it easy is visual your symptoms! For example, here are the days in March when we experienced brain fog. (The days with rings are the days we experienced the symptoms.)

Its main original purpose is for mood tracking. You can select your mood whenever you write a journal entry, and the moods can be displayed in charts as well!

This app has helped us a lot, so I wanted to recommend it! And I’m happy to answer any questions.

[maemaybe]

heyo! saw your post about DID awareness/AMA. feel free to not answer this, but i have a question about journaling. do y’all have a system journal? how did you get started? do y’all organize it in any way, or is it just a notebook where you write down your thoughts? thank u for ur time and i hope u have a good day!!

This is really specific to us, I think, but we prefer online journaling because we type much faster than we can write and we’ve been using online journals since we were like 11. 

We’ve tried a bunch of different services, even some paid ones, but what is currently working best for us is just having a private password-protected Tumblr sideblog. I like it because we can use tags for sorting by topic or by part, and the archive view makes it easy to see everything at a glance. 

We also keep a paper journal for the handful of parts who prefer writing by hand. 

I don’t think where you journal is really important. You just need to find whatever works for you and then invite all parts to participate. Try to make it welcoming and set some ground rules that make everyone comfortable (like not deleting or destroying writing). 

[luluapocalypse-system]

We want to try starting a journal. Our communication seems to be alright, so it's mainly going to be a place for everyone to vent and get problems out when they can't/don't want to confront the person the problem is centered around. We've been looking into other journals to get some ideas for rules. Which brings me to the point of the post.

Does anyone have suggestions for rules? Besides the obvious sign/date entries and being respectful. All ideas are appreciated, thank ahead of time!