If you’re struggling to maintain a journal, we recommend ditching the fancy journal apps. Instead, turn a text file on Windows into a journal, complete with automatic timestamps. Open the default Notepad application on your Windows PC and click on File > New. In the new document that gets created, type in .LOG, and hit Enter. Click on File > Save As and save the document as a text (.TXT) file, say
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