What diary - paper or electronic - should make for you

Today we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of electronic and paper-based personal diaries. And to all those who still have doubts about whether to keep a personal diary, offer to read this is and this is.

paper diary

Benefits

1. You'll spend less time on the Net

Many of us promise ourselves more time to "live offline», but that in reality? We constantly hang out on the Internet during working hours, even if it does not provide for our job duties. We come home - history repeats itself. We arrived on a visit to his parents, decide to meet up with friends or just go for a walk - the picture is still the same, the Internet is always at hand in our smartphone.

Given that for you to share your thoughts and describe everything that happened to you the day you will need to an average of 30 minutes, a paper diary - is a great way to spend less time on the web and simply computer.

2. Paper diary always at hand

Interference Internet connection, a low level of charge gadget just when the hand is not the charger, or simply at home so inappropriately cut electricity. With all of the problems you may encounter when conducting electronic diary. But sometimes you have thought evaporates in seconds, so you need to act quickly.

Notebook and pen are always there, and technical problems will not be denied you to write down all the most important.

3. Your personal diary really personal

Yes, of course, electronic diary can also be made private, closed from prying eyes. But nobody canceled hacking accounts accidentally left open tabs on your computer, that and strive to look the prying eyes of your household or friends. Paper blog you can always carry with them, and be sure that its contents will not be known to others.

4. Materiality

You can poshelestet pages of the diary, feel native and beloved smell of scribbled pages, finally, just to hold in their hands the fruits of their efforts.

disadvantages

1. Paper diary easy to lose

Yes, defenseless paper diary so easy to lose: forget it on a bench in the park, accidentally left in the subway, to drop out of a backpack during a morning run for the bus. It may accidentally throw out some of your family members during a regular general cleaning. And if you're a student who loves to write down their thoughts mainly on boring pairs at the university, you can accidentally forget their secret vault in one of the desks in the temple of knowledge.

Electronic diary, compared with the paper more reliable. Even if you forget your username or password, you can restore them.

2. You may just be too lazy to write

"It's just too lazy to write" - excuse, which can negate the noble desire to replenish their daily diary entries. Remember in high school and university years, after the summer holidays, the first lesson and the first pair, we talked to his classmates or classmates: "I have forgotten how to write over the summer?" It's the same story.

Pounding the keyboard we are used to and do not consider it hard work, but take a pen and paper and start writing many simply laziness.

3. Blogs require space in the house

If you are going to keep a diary in good faith, daily replenishing its full recordings, rather than formal replies, then after a couple of years you will accumulate more impressive on volume tetradochek, which will have to find a place in house.

In this paper diary loses electrons if the electronic diary is weightless and imperceptible, its paper analogue delivers more trouble.

4. restrict content

In a paper diary you will collect words from the letters, you can even print photos and attach your Ezhednevnik tickets, leaflets, calendars and other paper small things that remained from the sweet heart landmark events.

But you can not paste into your paper diary SIFCO, audio or video, which is now so closely reflects your mood.

Electronic diary

Benefits

1. You can share your thoughts with other

Sometimes we want to share with people, even personal information, we want to talk about their victories, share successes and achievements, and sometimes even problems, we want to get advice or support. Sometimes we want to get an assessment of his work.

In this electronic diary plus: we can give access to it to other people, whose opinion is important to us. Moreover, entering into the taste, of a personal diary, you can make your own blog.

2. Electronic diary can not be forgotten or lost

Paper diary, as we have seen above, it is very easy to accidentally lose. Electronically this will not work.

In addition, a paper diary can be accidentally forgotten at home, in the car, but anywhere, and when it is needed, it may not be at hand. Electronically easier: even if there is not a laptop, it will approach the smartphone or tablet.

3. It can not spoil

On the electronic diary can not be accidentally spill coffee, tea, soda, or any other "colorful" liquid, because of which he lost "trademark" look. My favorite pet is not razderot and slaver electronic child, and your child does not turn it into a favorite coloring.

4. A variety of platforms for the diary

Many people use services known for conducting online diaries like LiveJournal. Some people prefer to microblogging services like Tumblr, a master of short sentences can keep a personal diary, even on Twitter. And someone uses Evernote, good old Word or various diary applications for smartphones.

disadvantages

1. You depend on the internet and gadgets

If you forget to pay for the internet, you have trouble with your Internet connection or your gadget and decided to rest in any did not want to work, then you can not go to your e-mail creation.

2. It is easy to "go in another forest"

Setting themselves the task every day to replenish your electronic diary at least one new entry, we will easily find ways around - begin to share We liked strangers recordings, favorite poems, and other outsiders, but we know the content, without accompanying it by their own thoughts.

On the one hand, we carry out the task before us regularly update your blog entries, and on the other hand, we sachkuem, do not do the main thing - do not share their thoughts and experiences, and throw out even the lovely, but still a stranger content.

3. You may be insincere

If you conduct an open electronic diary, sometimes, without realizing it, begin to work on the public, prevaricate and do the main thing - to share their real thoughts.

4. It can be expensive

You may want to buy a domain name (especially if you plan to turn into a personal diary blog), you liked the app for journaling can be paid, plus some resources may be limited for downloading media files that bypass without pay is not out.

Each form of the diary has its advantages and disadvantages. To summarize, we note that no matter what your blog - paper or electronic, the main thing - it is an action that is not throwing your blog and regularly update its records.

And what leads you diary - electronic or paper?