Notes App to Journal Pipeline

i’m a big advocate for journaling in general, but i spent many years with empty pages. i’d have thoughts and reflections throughout the day, but they’d disappear by the time i went to write them down, and when i intentionally sat down with pen in hand, my mind would go blank. it wasn’t until i gave myself permission, which at first felt sacrilegious to the concept of journaling, to jot things down in my notes app and transfer them into my journal later that i was actually able to keep track of those thoughts. i’ve found that the process of rewriting them helps me process them, too.