Visual Diaries

Sally

That post on style markers got me thinking about the introduction of my visual diary. Does anyone else keep a visual diary or diary of some sort?

I keep one with things like pictures, things I collect, quotes, books I have read, films I have seen, poetry, inspirational clothes, colours etc. I also keep a yoga diary now as my yoga teacher said its a good idea to measure changes in your body energy level etc so that is now a part of my diary keeping. Now I don't get paper magazines as much, its harder to put the pictures in. I wonder if anyone keeps a private diary online and if there are any apps that support it.

2 years ago

Off Topic

12 replies

Latest reply was from Sally

Stagiaire Fash

Veteran

I was curious about the visual diary when you mentioned it the other day. Before cell phone cameras, how did you record the visuals? Was it a mit if sketching and words? Now that we have these, I can see the issue of getting images & diary in the same place. I don’t see why it needs to be online though. The Notes app on iPhones lets you paste in photos and links, and you can draw in it too. Wouldn’t that work?

2 years ago

Sally

Veteran

Hi Stagiaire
I used to cut out pictures from magazines or print from a computer and stick it in a large scrapbook plus there was a lot of mixing in words. It was like a mix of inspiration board, memories and quotes. I Now I download quotes on to my phone and store some stuff there. I suppose it would be good to have a way to centralise stuff as I have lost it on one occasion. The problem with the phone is that it runs out of storage. Maybe I will continue to keep a paper one and scan some of that and add to a cloud copy somewhere. I have been keeping it since 2002 so want to keep it safe.

2 years ago

rachylou

Veteran

Ok, I made a reply and now I’m wondering if I did my thing and posted it on the wrong thread! Lol. Probably. I was wondering how you draw in Notes? Maybe I’m looking at the wrong app? (Am I just wrong wrong wrong today or what? Hahaha! )

I stopped with diary keeping. But I used to write every day and would make wildlife sketches and sketches of good outfits seen in the wild. Now I occasionally just jot down stuff in random little scattered notebooks, vague gestures of recipes and quotes.

Oh I did some collages in PowerPoint following along with the ‘Soul Collage’ thing. That was great fun, but a terrible black hole of time…

2 years ago

rachylou

Veteran

…but come to think, my collages were paper and then somehow I scanned them in to PowerPoint…

2 years ago

Sal

Veteran

I used to use Evernote and liked this. It worked for pictures and words and saving things like passport scans etc (I wish...)

2 years ago

Stagiaire Fash

Veteran

Rachylou, how to draw in notes? Very crudely. The markup tools let you choose different tip widths and colors.

2 years ago

rachylou

Veteran

And… apparently I have three different apps under the Notes icon… who knew?

2 years ago

Sally

Veteran

Rachylou - the collage idea sounds good. And yes scanning would mean you could save it somewhere. Perhaps my personal google drive is the place. You must be a good sketcher if you are able to sketch outfit inspirations etc. Yes I start to have my things in random scattered notebooks too and I'm afraid I will lose track of them eventually. I used to write poetry as a child but lost all my notebooks.
Sal thank you. I had a quick look at evernote and will investigate further.
Stagiaire Fash. Thanks Yes I can see the potential of notes. I do have lots of quotes, and recipes even stored there. I suppose it eventually saves onto my cloud.
@rachylou yes I find out every now and then something that I didn't know my phone could do.

2 years ago

Staysfit

Veteran

I use Procreate for online drawing and visuals.

2 years ago

JAileen

Veteran

When I go on a trip and take pictures, I make one the picture of the day. It started mainly for my mother, but I send them to my friends, too. Right now we’re in SE Arizona, very near the border.

Re drawing, I started drawing in Notes on my ipad with an apple pencil. I’m no artist, but I had fun during the pandemic.

2 years ago

Anonymous

I've made Word docs of inspiration photos- for my novels. And things I've thought of buying.
Haven't in a long time though, since I don't use my laptop much anymore.

2 years ago

Sally

Veteran

Staysfit - procreate looks amazing but I think it requires a payment to download it?

JAileen - I think notes on an ipad would be better than a phone. I'm definitely no artist so always look for inspiration in pinterest and google.

suntiger - yes in the past I have used word docs and have printed them. I am thinking I might store the pictures in my personal drive and scan my paper stuff to store there as well.

2 years ago

Category