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Hey Carrie! For the index - on the page you could write the page numbers and then in the subject, you can write the date and your mood! Love your videos…you’ve really inspired me to journal 📓
Hey Carrie, i started my 5th journal a couple weeks ago and i'm in love with it, I would say for the context page only put down entries that are important like major events, birthdays, or achievements. I can't wait to see your progress in this journal.
if you write an average of 2 pages a day, you could fit in every entry that you write in the contents, but I tend to just go with major points like birthdays (because I don't write as often, so my journals last longer) if you want a recommendation. I love your videos by the way! I started journaling last year in August because of one of your videos so really it is all thanks to you :)
For my table of contents I put my monthly playlist and the month I start- but for you I feel like more important entries you want to remember or reread should go there
When I used to do a table of contents in my journal, I would index notable entries/big events/funny things/major breakthroughs/etc. Things i wanted to be able to find and go back to easily later on. I would write a couple key words and the page #. I also would write the page # that each new month started on.
Hi Carrie, I think what your doing is SOO amazing. You've inspired thousands of people to start journaling including me. I'm so happy that we're all doing this together. I think I speak for all of us when I say THANK YOU!!!
Hi Carrie! I started my 2nd daily journal in October of this year, (maybe I'll finish it before the new year, but no guarantees). No doubt daily journaling is one of the best things I've done for myself. Thank you for sharing so much with us. All my love to you. ❤️😘
Hey Carrie!! First of all, thank you for inspiring me to start journaling this year! I think it has really helped me with exteriorizing my feelings and thoughts, which is something that I have always struggled with. As for your dilemma with the entries page, I thought maybe you could wait until you end it and write your favourite entries when its done, or maybe while your updating it if you felt like it was a really good day for you to go back and read it! Whatever you end up deciding will be totally amazing! Thank you for your inspiration, hope you have a wonderful christmas!❤️
I have been journaling for about 4 years, and I have tried daily journaling multiple times, but every time I would just quit. I decided to watch your videos, and you encouraged me to daily journal again! I am now 62 days into daily journaling, and will hit day 75 on my birthday!
I just started a new journal 3 days ago as I was uninspired to write In the one i started before that! It is my second journal and I'm excited to decorate it with you!
WOW,😱. It is so cool😎 , Carrie you have inspired me to to use a diary. I am usinv my first one and i am about to finish it!. It has a weird feeling when gou get a new dairy 📖😊
i really love seeing your content because it has given me so much inspo i've always been really into journaling but i have never been able to bring my self to get a journal and actually start. when i was younger i had diaries and it's so fun to look back on them and i can't wait to be able to do that now for my future self! Sooo..... i just ordered my first ever real journal, new pins, markers (to make it pretty), and a brand new pencil case!! im so excited to start my journal exactly at 12 on january 1st!!! With you along my side to help.
I love that idea, it’ll be like a study with me video. I think it will be very helpful. I use the study with me videos all the time, it’ll help me focus on journaling to if someone did it. When I journal, I get so distracted and it takes me forever to write a page because I have a running mind. Lol
I just went to Walmart yesterday to buy my second journal and i picked the exact same one as you!!!! Thats crazy! I started my first journal this year with your month journal prompts and now i finished a whole journal. thank you for making videos!
It's fun to watch you write..You have such nice handwriting. Lefties intrigue me. I am of a generation where many of us were forced to switch handedness...& I'm one of them. I wish I'd been left alone . My husband is a lefty.....so is one of his 2 sisters, his brother, & his mother.
If i had that index, I would use it for my most important entries. Like for example the first day I got it, my birthday, an important milestone in my relationship, a vacation I went on.
Hey Carrie, I just wanted to say that I started journaling on the 25th November after watching some of your videos, and it has been amazing! Thanks for inspiring me to start journaling!
Thankyou so much for this video! I just wanted to mention that I love you and your channel. This video got me to start journaling. I’m still working on journaling everyday, but this helps a lot. You are such a huge inspiration.😊 I also love the fruit of the spirit sticker❤️
I don't know if this has already been mentioned in the comments, but I had an idea about the contents page (if you haven't started that already). You could put the page numbers, for example the date you started your first entry, write that date down and if you've written more than one page for another entry, do the same thing as the first entry but do for example: 5th - 7th, and continue that for all entries. For the subject, instead of trying to come up with what each entry is about, you could write each entry's date so then it's easier. Hope that made sense. I don't normally comment on videos, but thought I'd give you a suggestion :) So basically it would look like this: Date 1st - 3rd (if you write multiple pages for one entry, or just write one page and add only that one date). Subject Month, day and year of entry (something like that).
Hi Carrie I’m a huge fan and I love to read books, soooo I would rlly like it if you did kind of like how to start a reading journal or if you could recommend some other RU-vidrs who do reading journal setups(Congrats on 52.4K!!!📝🎉🎊) Thanks Carrie ✨💞Lots of love from Egypt 🇪🇬
I have started my first journal yesterday on the 1st of 2022. In the index you should do the important pages like your first entry, your last entry, an entry about a really fun day.
Hi Carrie! I have a suggestion for you regarding your table of contents. I would say just write out the journal as you normally do. Once it's filled out, then take on the table of contents. If you have enough entries to fill it out, great! If you have too many to include, then maybe just include the entries that are most significant to you and that you'll know for a fact you'll be re-reading quite a bit. Hope that helps. I've never had (or heard of) a journal with a table of contents in it before, but if I did, that is how I would approach it. Otherwise, keep on keepin' on!
My first journal wasn’t really a journal, it was a story that I decided to ditch and start from the back. I haven’t really had the motivation to make anotherrrr so that one was my last :T but thanks to Carrie’s ✨ inspiration ✨ I think I’ll continue in a NEW AND IMPROVED journal just in time for de New Years 💖☺️ also it’s really nice seeing you picking up from your journal decor mistakes and trying to look on the positive side- really made my day ✨
0:16 I am a beginner and I want to start daily journaling in the next year, so that video would be so helpful! The first page of your journal is GORGEOUS 😍And also, you could just write the dates when something important happened n your life in the index. I wish they just gave you enough spaces so you don’t have to figure out what to do lol😂Anyways, I loved the video. Ily and stay safe!!
i had a journal with an index during the summer months and i just wrote the pages (ex. 1-5) and then what kind of entry it was. So for example "sketch" when I drew something or "lyrics + song name" when i wrote down lyrics on said page. if it was just a usual entry i would write down the date and when i wrote about a certain topic i wrote that down (if u do prompts you could write the one u wrote about down). I don't know if that helps you and if it fits your journaling style but that's how I did it :). great video tho! I'm about to finish my 13th journal and your videos are always really inspiring to me and really make me want to write. thankyou and I hope you're having an amazing day.
I am waiting for my cousin to come visit and I remembered you after watching Amanda rach lee bullet journaling and I have not written in my journal for like over a year and I thought it would be awkward writing in it randomly but you inspired me to continue after a year 😂 thanks so much for inspiring me
Hell~o, Carrie! 😆🎉Congrats on your 21st journal and 21k subs!✨ In the index, I think it depends on what you think is going to be helpful to you. For me, I like to write main changes and parts just for me to know, "oh, this happened here, or this started here." For instance, "a new decision," "coming home from college," "new friend," "travelled to..." "birthday," "second dose," "quarantine" etc. One thing I like to do is put a symbol or emoji (birthdays, sad days, funny moments, spiritual, etc.) and then on the right, I write the pages of where this type of event occurred. It's helpful to me since sometimes, I just want to see specific things. Also, to see just how eventful a day was. Hope this helps and give you an idea! Love you! ❤❤❤
For the table of contents, I documented whenever I started a new month (I'd make a cover page for that month), if one of my journal entries were of a single topic (a vivid dream I had, movie/tv show review, an epiphany I had, etc), and if there was some sort of milestone/event (first day of work, news of someone's death, the day I quit my job, etc)....just anything I feel like is significant that I'd want to remember, and want to be able to find it easily.
I think if ur day went average or u didn't experience something out of the ordinary don't write it on the contents page. However, if something happened that really caught ur eye then write the subject as what was different today.
I started my first diary in 2020 and continued that same one for 2021 but for 2022 I started a new journal and I’m like so happy that I completed a whole journal :D
Carrie i think you should write the date as the topic and you do write like 2,3 pages for like 1 date so i think the spaces will be enough, you should log every each entries
Hey Carrie! I was wondering if you could put the name of the 21st journal that you got at Walmart, I've been looking for a journal with page numbers since forever ( I'm like you and I literally never my own pages). It's really annoying to have to do that. What I would suggest for the index table of contents considering you only have 130 spaces and there are 240 pages, is just put in the most like absolutely dire important stuff you want to remember. I always make the cover of any of my journals really attractive. If you make it more aesthetically pleasing you're more than likely to the journal.
for the table of contents I would put the days something significant or important happend. you could write the page number/date and under subject you could write a short description of the important event. hope this inspires something
I did a table of contents in my first journal but I didn’t do it in my second one and i kind of miss it. Im about to start my third on January 1(yeah I’ve been writing like 4 pages a day for the past week so I can finish it on New Year’s Eve lol) and I think im going to add a table of contents to the front because I like seeing the dates so that I can go back like a year and read what I wrote on the exact day a year ago and it’s kind of satisfying to watch it fill up over time. I usually just write the page number and then in place of the subject I write the date
I have just like a needed paper journal so I use it for drawing and taking notes but I also use it for journaling and diary and secrets like a normal journal and then I can also use it for other things like grocery list and stuff like I said it's just like a needed paper journal it just carries paper for if I need it
Maybe every week, you pick like one of favorite or worst days (day with big emotions) and write it in the index (you don’t have to to do every week but that’s just an example
For the table of content you should write the date of the day as the subject, and if you don’t have enough space to fit EVERY day on the pages you can still draw the end of the index on the white page 😊 At least that’s what I would do, hope that helps!
I feel like since you started the journal definitely mark down the first entry. But when you finish a entry think if it feels important try putting it in the Index.
For the table of contents maybe do like December pgs 1-25 Week 1 pgs 1-7 Week 2 pgs 8-16 Week 3 pgs 17-25 Something like that instead of days themselves ? :)
Idea for the index here!!! I started out by filling the index with only the months and years (so if I started a new month I would log the first day of that month in the index, or the first page of a new year) but nowadays I fill out whenever a new week starts. That way I can easily skip through certain times in my life (holidays, exam weeks, summer, stuff like that) and also seen when I have written a lot and when I have not. Sometimes I write 20 pages a week, othertimes just 1.
Hey! I'm a new subscriber and I think for the table of contents, you could just write important dates (that's what I do with mine anyway) such as holidays, trips, birthdays/celebrations, etc.
I am left-handed too. The worst part about being left-handed is when you write something like in your journal, for example with a pen that's thick inked you like right? But if your hand up you see a bunch of ink on your hand and then you look at the journal and then like it's all smeared
You might know this, but I am reminding you that you should start the line alwys with the corner, it gives a little bit more space and doesn't waste the page too.
For the index, you could wait until you have finished the journal then go back and write down ones that are important/have good content to look back on
