man we gotta pick our journal back up, we haven’t used it in like two weeks. we usually do it every like 2-3 days but honestly we could probably benefit from doing it daily, we’re just bad at making ourselves do things. we mostly just use it for system communication and helping record info to help our memory issues.
we do it by hand which feels very nice. easier to keep organized than digital AND we get to have a notebook decorated in cute stickers!!
Journaling has been pretty helpful for our intra-system communication too, especially when we were just starting out trying to communicate with each other. Though now that we’ve figured out how to talk internally pretty well, we’ve kinda fallen off journaling altogether.
yeah, it’s not really crucial for us, just kinda an auxiliary thing. we share most memories/knowledge so it’s simple enough to come back and remember what one person was thinking and wanting to say. but journaling does help us get a more accurate picture and like… even if it’s unclear who’s writing at first, it can be helpful to go back and then realize in retrospect “OHHHHH so that was that person”
So I spent a week not looking at any places online à la “digital minimalism” and it was a Struggle. I replaced it almost entirely with just more reading/gaming–so a lot of picross basically. Love picross.
Interestingly taking a week break made me want to scroll Cohost less because there’s just too much I missed. Following too many people I guess. But it was fantastic for the forums!
Re: journaling, I do all my journaling with pen and paper. In general I am trying to reduce the amount of time I spend on my phone/computer and the amount of things I use it for. Really I want to reduce it down so that my device time is as Intentional as possible and not rely on them for things that can be shuffled to physical things. For example, I have a journal for weekly/monthly calendar events, birthdays, and the like.
The journaling one is just a daily Hobonichi and I write about a wide variety of things–it can be something that happened that day or it can be something I’m thinking about, something bothering me, etc. etc. Or sometimes I just write a haiku or doodle something. I’m not strict on content.
maybe this is the secret. maybe i just need to log off. 
i have some more thoughts on this but i don’t have the energy to type em out rn. it’s looking increasingly likely that i’ll be leaving cohost soon, though. gonna look at getting a proper RSS feed set up after my thesis is done so i can eliminate scroll Forever.
Yeah, I’m taking at least a temporary hiatus from cohost. Thinking about that place just depresses me now… The last few weeks have basically stripped away any of the faith I had in the project. Still haven’t found anything better to do so maybe I’ll try to do even more writing.
agreed about cohost. fucking making our blood boil. we made a new email last night to start making a Neocities again. we also wanna set up an RSS feed thing but we barely know what an RSS feed is lol, we’ll figure it out though
Yeah I’m still trying to decide if my goal is to reduce my usage of particular platforms or if my goal is to reduce overall phone/computer use.
I’ve made changes lately to reduce my scrolling (especially inspired by the book called Digital Minimalism, which I wrote my thoughts about here: REVIEW: Digital Minimalism - Blueberry Lemonade) but I’m still using the actual phone roughly the same amount.
i’m gonna start doing this on my days off. feel like i’ve been wasting 'em lately
Wait–what happened with Cohost? I haven’t logged in there ever since this place existed lmao
Nothing really new just continues to have a whiteness problem and white people are getting increasingly hostile and insufferable towards people of color who point out that nothing is being done about the whiteness problem, which proves the whiteness problem.
It was your post in particular that inspired me to try it myself!
I’m still making posts on my small personal Cohost for now, mainly just for my friends to see. But I sure feel very little urge to scroll now, even as curated as my follows are and as aggressively I’ve been blocking people for years.
I’ve felt the itch to redownload Puzzle&Dragons lately, I never played it super consistently but over the years I’ve downloaded it on and off and really enjoyed the gameplay. The energy and gacha systems completely discourage me from going back to it though. I really should look into some non-gacha and one time payment puzzlers to put on my phone, I’m still getting a lot of mileage out of Bloons but I want something more to satisfy the phone itch. Gonna try out Hungry Cat!
Woahh, cool! Thank you!
+1 to trying to scroll less also
i’ve started calling scrolling ‘pacing’, after a tumblr post i saw about like, tigers or whatever in containment and how if they’re pacing it means they need Enrichment, so when i notice i’m Pacing i just kinda try to make myself stop and do something Enriching like playing a game or actively watching something. knitting/other fibercrafts are such a good idea to try and reduce this kind of thing tho omg. i kinda want to look into it but god knows i don’t need another half-realized abandoned hobby 
what is life if not a series of half-realized abandoned hobbies, go for it fam
also i love “pacing” i’m gonna use that from now on
god you’re so right. i have an irl friend who does crochet and is part of a crochet guild, maybe i can talk to her once i decide what fibre craft i’d like to do…
!!! oh hell yeah. i wish i could find the post it was from but as tumblr is a fate-based website, who knows when/if i’ll find it again LOL
I like pacing a lot too!
hey si 
I’m no rss expert but will happily help if you have any questions or anything, both on the reader side and making a feed side!
ok! we don’t really have time/energy to mess with it now but when we do we can hit you up! thank you!