journal

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"journal" and "journaling" are words with multiple shades of IndieWeb meaning related to writing, both public and private, blogging and note-taking.

the idea of private posts in particular map to writing related to introspection and research
some bloggers refer to their blogs as "journals" (See journaling silos LiveJournal, DeadJournal)
"Journal" may refer to academic publishing by scholars and associated with educational institutions. Some journals are predatory in pricing causing some to resort to academic samizdat. Open access is a model for academic publishing to make more data open and available.
journal is the root word of "journalism," see Indieweb for Journalism

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Joe Crawford has been journaling on paper since the 1980s and digitally nearly as long. Journaling in a mental health context (get the feelings out on paper) is also useful, often his private journals have a scrapbook feel. That "junk drawer" approach applies to his blog, too.
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Dabble me is a silo for private journaling via email promising "Get a daily prompt by email. Hit reply...No artitifial intelligence. No social features. No sharing. No algorithms. Your journal stays yours."

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