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This may seem like a "techy" journaling tip but there is an application that I use that I love that makes journaling easier and accesible... MACJOURNAL. It allows me to have multiple journals at my fingertips right on my dock. It's easy use and accesibility have increased my journaling megafold. I have a journal for photoshop tips, my personal journal, quotations, and layout titles an journaling. I do it all in these journals and then just copy and paste into my layouts when I need to.

I think as long as it comes from the heart - that's all that matters, I know that i have mistakes but I know that I have written from the heart and that my family will cherish it no matter what it reads like

My best tip is to write it down right away. It's funny how the mind works and you can forget so quickly. Or you remember parts and yet some things are fuzzy. So grab a piece of paper and write! :)

I like to score lines with my bone folder and use them as a guideline for my journaling.

Hi Ali,
When traveling, I use the plane ride home to summarize our trip. Typically, whatever I have written down is what I use for my journaling on the layout. It gives me a chance to revisit the trip while it is fresh and I also feel ready to get back to my routine when I get home.

Journaling for me, comes easy. I like to write, when I am doing my children's pages, as if it was letter for them to read. Me, speaking directly to them. It hopefully makes it so much more personal when I move on and they remain that they can still hear me, as if I was there!
xoxo
ronee

I love mkaing lists. They help me keeps the main points/message in focus and gives me a starting point for longer journalling.

Wow! Look at all of those fun goodies! My suggestion is to write your journaling out on a scrap piece of notebook paper first and THEN put it on your page. I hate having a finished project that is ruined from a mistake in my journaling.

I try to have a small notebook with me where ever I go... and also at home when i am working and the kids says something funny etc, i just open notepad and jot it down...

After an event I just sit down and write down the things, words spoken, emotions felt on a piece of paper which I then sort into my memorabilia file. Whenever I scrap the respective pictures,I just pull out the text and copy it to the layout.

i have a notebook that i write things down as they happen - sometimes i type up what i actually want to journal and stick it with my photos so i won't forget.

I write things in my calendar, so when I'm ready to go back and scrapbook the photos I already have the story or feeling started.

I try to make a little tone after every special moment,so I do not forget.But some moments you will never forget ,so you can do later.I have done my story how did we meet with my husband and layout was done after we had a our first kid and I remember how it was incredible ,meant to be...
He came for haircut and I was leaving,like walking out to pick up my boyfriend from Moscow and HE walk in.... and all the way I was just thinking about my future husband...
Never forget that moment,butterfly's in side you...
AHH

The best thing you can do to make journaling easy, is to write often. Write in a daily journal, Twitter, blog... whatever. Then when you want to write something meaningful, it will come much easier. Or you can just steal your own words from your journal or blog. :)

I keep daily notes on our big family calendar of little things said or done, and refer back when I sit down to scrap pictures from that month.

My best journalling tip would be to get it down fast before you forget. Also, have a designated spot to collect these stories, so you can easily find it when you are ready to scrap that memory.

I keep a large desk calendar next to my computer. That way, I can jot down notes and quotes on the day they happen. I save my old calendars, so even when I am scrapping my older pictures, I can look back at the right time to jog my memory.

Lately, I am finding my blog to be the easiest way to tell my story. That way, when I find time to scrapbook it all, I've at least got my memories and personality captured into words.
When not around a computer, I tend to write tidbits onto pieces of paper or into my journal.
I look forward to becoming a mother so that I can document all of the funny things that kids do/say so that, like the mastercard commercial, life will be PRICELESS.

Just journal the thoughts as they fill your head. Get them down on paper so you don't forget them. Don't try to be PERFECT with what you want to say. You can always go back and add and edit. A small notebook kept with you at all times is a must!!

I try to think about and write information that you would never know from the photo. I never write what can can obviously be seen in the picture.