Why Study Journaling?

Journaling is a popular practice and hobby for craft centered communities. It often includes documentation of memories, tracking goals, aspirations, favorites, and crafting one’s individual design styles. Journalers also tend to combine a variety of different accessories and tools, suchs as pens, inks, washi tape, stickers, and more in their own unique and individual way. Many journalers tend to prefer analog journaling compared to digital tools for a variety of reasons.

Impact on HCI

Journaling is often a valuable reflective practice that can help improve mental health and support personal development and learning. Studying journaling can provide insight as to how to improve customization across design tools for journaling and beyond. Research insights can provide the field with the knowledge of how to provide the same experiences that are valued as analog to digital work.