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Regular journaling offers emotional benefits.

Digital journals on work devices can become public in legal cases, risking privacy exposure.

Handwritten journals offer greater privacy in the AI era and encourage mindful self-reflection.

In this post, we will discuss the value of keeping a journal as well as the challenge of keeping your personal information safe in this emerging AI/quantum computing era.

The Value of Keeping a Journal

Readers may think of diaries or journals as written by adolescent girls who vomit out feelings onto blank sheets. But the act is itself tension-relieving. Looking at those written words days or weeks later can provide cognitive perspective that was impossible to obtain at the time.

Personal journals are not, however, limited to adolescent girls. These are just a few of the famous leaders who kept diaries: John Quincy Adams, Marie Curie, Bob Dylan, Harry Truman, and Ronald Reagan.

Diaries as Stress-Release Mechanisms

In an article about the value of writing journals, Spera et al. (1994) conducted a research project involving 63 high technology employees who were all laid off on the same day. Twenty-one participants wrote a diary every day with their deepest feelings, while 21 kept a daily spreadsheet calendar with no........

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