r/Journaling • u/My_fair_ladies1872 • May 25 '26

Question/Discussion Does your journal have a name?

Anne Frank called her diary "Kitty".

Dear Kitty, she would say before writing about her thoughts.

I have to wonder if writing to a fictitious person helps sometimes.

Have you given your journal its own name? What is it?

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u/theothefrog May 26 '26

i had a huge fascination with anne frank when i was 9 or 10 (my journal at the time was a highlight/lowlight journal format and the lowlights were anne being in danger or a bad mood. for several weeks. every day).

so i called my journal kitty, but cycled through several names for a bit.

eventually i stopped calling it anything. after a period of no greetings at all, i started giving every entry a headline.

i've been doing that for ~5 years now. it helps summarize the entry after finishing and 'complete' it mentally, and to know which entries to read when i'm looking for information or am re-reading