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Turning journaling into something you want to touch, cut, collect, and keep.
A lot of what I share with you revolves around journaling in one way or another, reflections, routines, lists, little life moments. But, a lot of the times, it always ends up being part of how I process things, how I remember, how I make sense of the days that blur together. And I think a lot of us want to spend more time doing that, but sometimes it feels a bit flat or repetitive once the novelty wears off. That’s why I’ve realised that the physical act of journaling can be just as satisfying as the writing itself. There’s something very specific about turning it into a visual practice rather than just words on a page. Cutting, layering, taping, rearranging. Making your notebook feel like a collection of thoughts, textures, colours, moments.
Scrap journaling makes the process less about “writing something meaningful” and more about building pages you actually want to come back to. It becomes something you can do when you’re tired, when your brain feels full, or when you just want to use your hands for a bit.
This post is about making journaling feel more like something you want to pick up, not something you feel like you should be doing.
Switching from “Writing” to “Building” Pages
@小红书
Some days, you absolutely want to write and pour your thoughts onto the page, I have a journal just for that, where my handwriting is so slanted that I can barely read it later, and that’s fine. But for other days, especially when you have a few spare minutes, you can focus on the visual side instead. Switching from “writing” to “building” pages is about treating your journal more like a layout than an essay. Start with scraps, colours, shapes, or tape, and let the words come later, or not at all. This can be a second, lighter and smaller journal, a space to do something creative without pressure.
