{"id":267148,"date":"2020-08-31T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=267148"},"modified":"2020-08-31T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:10:12","slug":"note-to-self-a-pandemic-is-a-great-time-to-keep-a-diary-plus-4-tips-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/31\/note-to-self-a-pandemic-is-a-great-time-to-keep-a-diary-plus-4-tips-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to self: a pandemic is a great time to keep a diary, plus 4 tips for success"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marcos Paulo Prado\/Unsplash<\/a>, CC BY<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A search for \u201cCoronavirus Diary\u201d on Google yields 910,000 results. News outlets like the Guardian<\/a>, The Atlantic<\/a> and The New York Times<\/a> have chronicled an increase in personal record-keeping.<\/p>\n

Whether for future historians<\/a>, self-care<\/a> or to relieve feelings of isolation<\/a>, we are in the middle of a diarological moment.<\/p>\n

And today\u2019s diaries aren\u2019t just handwritten reflections in bound notebooks. They might be social media posts, video entries or visual collages \u2013 so long as they are regularly updated over an extended period and personal in nature, they fit the bill. The secret is in the repetition, and the pledge that drives it.<\/p>\n