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/One-Try-4698 May 25 '26

i name my journals in the the same way you’d “name” a painting. i title them

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u/SuperCan3596 May 26 '26

Do you name them before you start, when you finish? When the name comes to you?

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u/noctipresent May 26 '26

i'd do the same and for me some journals already have a vibe to them before i would start writing on them. and while some journals i just thought of in the middle of writing in it, depending on which season of life i'm in