"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."
Sounds about right.
From Joan Didion on Keeping a Notebook – The Marginalian
#Journaling #PKM #Notebooks #Diaries #Journals
https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/11/19/joan-didion-on-keeping-a-notebook/
Gaza diary
Sarah Aziza
Doomsday Diaries
October 7–17, 2023
The Paris Review - Looking for Virginia Woolf's Diaries - The Paris Review
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/09/12/looking-for-virginia-woolfs-diaries/
#Diaries
#Books
It's sentences like this that raise Pepys's diary into high literature. The laconic counting of the child deaths that take place in his immediate circle, recorded as plain fact without embroidery, all emotion merely implied and being so much deeper for it. Worthy of Plutarch.
Looking at how we allowed our rulers to remove all #covid mitigations, with the next #pandemic we will have to learn counting like Pepys.
Still loving Diaries of Note - this brief one about that Abbey Road picture is a lot of fun, with bonus doodle of the iconic moment too.
https://diariesofnote.com/2023/08/08/abbey-road/
Design, Digested #42 is out!
On this issue: give a damn about accessibility, how to design for readers‘ attention span, notable diaries, and more.
#Accessibility #Videogames #Prototyping #Iteration #Design #Diaries
https://silviamaggidesign.com/design-digested/design-digested-42/
George Orwell's diaries from the Spanish Civil War are “gathering dust somewhere in the Russian Archive of Social and Political History in Moscow”. Russia still a land of hidden and unopened archives, it seems. https://open.substack.com/pub/orwellfoundation/p/orwells-diaries?utm_source=direct&r=1m1g4u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Samuel Pepys livetoots the secret diaries of the famous 17th Century Londoner in real time. You can follow at:
Pepys was a high-up official in the English navy, and also recorded details of his private life including numerous affairs. His diaries have become an important source on political, cultural and social history.
The maintainer's annotated version of the diaries is at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Samuel Pepys was an important public official in 17th Century London, who helped to run the English navy and reported to the King. He also kept a secret diary where he was surprisingly honest about his personal life between 1660 - 1669.
You can follow the diary in real time (currently 1668) at:
The maintainer's website is at https://www.pepysdiary.com