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☆ Question for those who love tracking random things as much as I do--any microblogging sites out there that you guys use for tracking media? Like I have Goodreads, Letterboxd, AniList, etc. for logging different media, but I've been thinking about having everything posted all in one place. This would be for basically no one's benefit but mine because I just like seeing everything neatly arranged with stats and all that, so I was talking with straightforwardly about spreadsheets because you could definitely do some cool stuff with stats that way. But even just a simple site that you could post short updates on, like Twitter except not because Twitter sucks and also because you can't tag things or go back very far on sites like Twitter.

Maybe this is what I can finally use Neocities for lmao. *has been trying to peer pressure myself into making a Neocities for months now* I guess if there's no general media tracking sites out there I can make my own simple status update page/calendar of sorts.

☆ Of course YouTube, as if reading this post I was drafting, just recommended me some journaling videos on my homepage. I've toyed with the idea of bullet journaling before, but I never actually did anything with it because I like the idea of a very neat, artsy bujo and I know I'd never actually put in the time or effort to make that sort of thing. But one of the recommended videos was by the channel Notebook Overload on commonplace books, which is a really old tradition of keeping a notebook for writing down quotes, notes, information, etc. that resonate with you or you want to keep track of. Kind of like scrapbooking but with text instead of photos. (Or in my case, a handwritten tumblr/twitter where I write down the quotes instead of reblogging them, lmao.)

I've never heard of these before but it seems really neat? And feels like it might scratch that itch of wanting a physical journal where all my previous attempts at keeping a physical planner have failed. I don't know, something to think about, I suppose. I did watch several other videos by Notebook Overload on journaling/planners because they were interesting, so I do rec the channel if you like that sort of thing! I love seeing other people's pretty planners.

It kind of feels redundant to keep a physical journal when I have all these online places to blog--this Dreamwidth, Tumblr/Twitter, all the media logging sites, the hypothetical Neocities--but I've always liked writing stuff by hand. I've written a lot of fic by hand because I enjoy the action of writing (and it forces me to edit during the process of typing up the finished fic) so I always end up coming back to the idea of keeping a paper journal. So yeah, maybe a commonplace book is the way to go. At least it'd give me an excuse to use one of the notebooks I've had lying around unused for years.