Keeping a diary often helps not only to preserve memories of any events, thoughts or moods, sometimes this activity can become a tool for self-improvement - one of the elements of auto-training. If you do not think that a diary should necessarily be handwritten, take advantage of the possibilities that are available to users of modern computers.
Instructions
Step 1
The simplest diary can be a regular Notepad - a basic text editor installed along with the Windows operating system. In it, you can create new records, saving each in a separate file, or you can start a new file for each next month or year. If you write. LOG in the very first line of a blank page, then Notepad will automatically add the time and date before each new entry.
Step 2
Significantly greater possibilities for the design of diary entries can be provided by the Word word processor from the popular set of Microsoft Office programs. It can be used to highlight individual entries with font, text or background color, insert active links with Internet addresses, images (including background), emoticons, etc. In addition, in a word processor, you can create a table of contents - a collection of links to go to the records of each new month, year, week. On the Internet, you can find templates for the design of diary pages. Some of them you may not even look for yourself, if you are using versions of Word 2007 or 2010 - select the "Create" section in the menu, then find and click the "Records" section, and in it - the "Diaries" folder. A set of available design templates will be loaded into the middle column, from which select the most suitable one and click the "Download" button.
Step 3
There are also apps specifically designed for journaling. Select and install one of them if you want to get rid of routine file operations as much as possible. For example, the Efficient Diary application has a Russian interface and many of the features of a word processor for the design of diary entries. In addition to this, it organizes the records itself, creates tables of contents and can sort them by date, by topic, by topic group, or even by the weather or your mood recorded in the records. When creating a diary, the program offers to set a password for access to it - if you wish, you can keep two such diaries, one of them closed from unauthorized people with a password.
