Ideas on What to Write in a Journal

Ideas on What to Write in a Journal

So you’ve decided to keep a journal—but you wonder what sort of things you should write about. After all, how can you fit everything you want you and your posterity to remember into so few pages? Don’t worry—and remember that, first and foremost, your journal is...
Digitize What’s Important to You

Digitize What’s Important to You

I just finished a project to digitize all my old audiocassettes, videocassettes (home movies), and 8mm tapes to digital. I wish I had done it years ago, because the images and sound had faded a lot. Digital will last forever without degradation if you store it...

Preserving Digital Records

The video below gives ideas on how to preserve your digital files, such as photographs and journals. This is one video from Preserving History Instructional Videos, a series of brief video vignettes on how to care for personal records and artifacts. Related articles:...
Resolution #4: Keep a Journal

Resolution #4: Keep a Journal

This is one of a series of articles with suggested resolutions for the new year. See the other suggested resolutions. The article “Thinking outside the Book” in the November New Era magazine (pages 40-42) discussed several creative ways to keep a record of...
Personal Progress Integrated with Notes and Journal

Personal Progress Integrated with Notes and Journal

Entries that young women record in the Personal Progress website (PersonalProgress.lds.org) are now integrated with Notes and Journal (formerly called “My Study Notebook”) on LDS.org. Young women use Personal Progress to complete and track value experiences as part of...
Wikipedia and the Cognitive Surplus

Wikipedia and the Cognitive Surplus

I’d like to expand on a blog post from earlier this year by Larry Richman called What is a Wiki? As Larry explains, the nature of a wiki is to enable just about anyone to contribute an article or modify content. If you didn’t realize this and want to see...

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