Comments on: How To Remember Your Life? Remembering Memories Into A Timeline Journal

By: Hugo Huijer

Hugo Huijer — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 07:31:37 +0000

In reply to Brie.

Hi Brie!

I added the captions to the bubbles using either good old Paint or Powerpoint! 🙂 The bubble chart itself is created in Excel. I hope this helps!

By: Brie

Brie — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 00:39:39 +0000

In reply to Hugo at Tracking Happiness. Hi! Any chance you would mind sharing how you formatted those cells to make them show the bubbles and the data you want?

By: Hugo Huyer

Hugo Huyer — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:42:50 +0000

In reply to Paolo.

This is amazing, thanks for sharing. Compared to you, I’m just a journaling apprentice. 😉

Will send you an email if you don’t mind! Would love to connect.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 11:50:54 +0000

I am 23 and I started journalling wherever I go since 1st January 2020. I have a digital watch that makes it even easy to take a quick glimpse at the time and memorise it, even to the second, and then write it down when I finish any journey, even to/fro round the corner to buy milk or bread. I do it for everywhere I walk to, cycle to, take the bus, drive to, get driven, and for each of these categories I also distinguish if it’s a commute or a leisurely activity.

Then I map/trace the journey on Google Earth once at home. Most roads will eventually get repetitive, similar patterns or routines, so the most laborious tracing will only be at the beginning to trace everything. But eventually I quickly started copying and altering the minor differences. The year is now soon over, 2021 is closer than the end of August and it is really nice seeing 1/23rd of my life in front of my eyes, every place I’ve been to. All I need is these minor “keywords” of the date, time, and the traced map, and they’re enough for me to remember the entire memory at the destination/event I go to, without needing to waste time writing narratives.

Eventually I want to “fill in the blanks” with the places I’ve been to pre-2020. It will be impossible to be as much detailed, and some journeys are completely forgotten especially mundane and small ones. But I am confident that I can recollect most of my 2015-2019 gap, through photos and messages, that sort of stuff.

By: Hugo at Tracking Happiness

Hugo at Tracking Happiness — Sat, 16 May 2020 20:26:35 +0000

In reply to lindley.

Oof that really sucks. I can see how this was a huge blow, I would be very sad if I’d lose my writings like this as well.

I have no experience with being hypnotized so I can’t really comment on that, but there are some things that really help me with remembering my memories. I’ll be in touch! 🙂

Hugo

By: lindley

lindley — Sat, 16 May 2020 00:32:05 +0000

hi i love this article. I am 41 years old and have been trying to recall lost memories. i started keeping a journal online when i was like 21 back in 1999 and some stuff before. i kept moving my entries to different online journals. well i had them all on this journal site called diary-x and in 2006 their server crashed and lost everyones journal and they had no backup so i lost everything; i was so heartbroken and sad because how in the world would i remember all that and on what days and years things happened? i also had several notes saved on old emals but forgot to log into those and they deleted the whole email address and everything that was on it. so i kind of got thrown out of writing everything because years of my life were lost. i stil find myself wanting to recall things. do you have any tips to get my memories of lost journal entries back from years ago? also what do you think about getting hypnotized? do you think that could help someone remember their life?

By: Lynette Churchill

Lynette Churchill — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:46:21 +0000

I am trying to find a journal for my sister to be able to write down recalled memories and the years of those memories but I can’t seem to find a journal with those specifics. I know you mentioned Google spreadsheets but are you aware of such a journal? If not I can add the year tabs myself.

By: Hugo at Tracking Happiness

Hugo at Tracking Happiness — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:01:13 +0000

In reply to Meghan.

Hi Meghan,

Thanks for the great words. And SORRY for the terribly late reply. This is what my template looks like: https://i.imgur.com/mTXStfh.png

It’s a really simple Google Sheets document with 4 columns. When I wrote this post, I created this visual journal in Excel, which counted the number of words in my memories and created a bubble chart from that, but for the life of me, I’m not able to find it anymore. That’s why it took me this long to reply. Again, I’m really sorry. I hope this won’t stop you from tracking your memories!

By: Meghan

Meghan — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:44:53 +0000

Hey! Thanks for this. As someone who loves journalling, and often worries about forgetting or losing memories, this seems like a great idea! I was wondering if it was possible to post a template for this or a how-to to create a document like this, because i would love to try it! That would be hugely helpful!

By: N

Fri, 03 May 2019 01:25:32 +0000

Thank you.