Journalling Zine Update

This is a new version of the old journalling zine.  Just the start.

Journalling Zine/000-header.tex

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+\documentclass[twoside,12pt,openany]{book}
+
+%% Document Geometry
+%\usepackage[paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in,margin=0.5in,heightrounded,showframe]{geometry}
+\usepackage{geometry}
+%% Proofing
+%\geometry{paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in,margin=0.5in,heightrounded,showframe}
+%% Half Letter Production
+\geometry{paperheight=8.5in,paperwidth=5.5in,margin=0.5in}
+
+\usepackage[acronym,nopostdot]{glossaries}
+
+\makeglossaries
+
+\usepackage{xparse}
+\DeclareDocumentCommand{\newdualentry}{ O{} O{} m m m m } {
+  \newglossaryentry{gls-#3}{name={#5},text={#5\glsadd{#3}},
+    description={#6},#1
+  }
+  \makeglossaries
+  \newacronym[see={[Glossary:]{gls-#3}},#2]{#3}{#4}{#5\glsadd{gls-#3}}
+}
+
+\loadglsentries[main]{glossary-defs}
+
+\title{Open Journalling Zine}
+\author{Jigme Datse Yli-Rasku}
+\date{2024 September 13 to \today}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\frontmatter
+
+\maketitle
+
+%\chapter{Dedication}
+%\include{dedication}
+%\chapter{Copyleft}
+%\include{copyleft}
+%\chapter{Acknowledgements}
+%\include{acknowledgements}
+%\chapter{About Basic Roleplaying}
+%\include{aboutbrp}
+
+\tableofcontents
+
+\listoffigures
+\listoftables

Journalling Zine/900-footer.tex

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+
+\appendix
+\chapter{No idea what we're putting here}
+
+\backmatter
+\include{glossary}
+\chapter{Bibliography}
+\chapter{Other Titles}
+
+
+\end{document}

Journalling Zine/Makefile

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+# TEXFILES = zine.tex 000-header.tex 900-footer.tex dedication.tex copyleft.tex acknowledements.tex aboutbrp.tex discovery.tex setup-cm.tex
+TEXFILES = 000-header.tex  900-footer.tex  zine.tex glossary.tex glossary-defs.tex why-journal.tex
+CLEANFILES = *.dvi *.log *.aux *.lof *.lot *.toc *.png *.ps *.acn *.acr *.alg *.glo *.glsdefs *.ist *.glg *.gls
+
+clean: 
+	rm $(CLEANFILES)
+	echo "Nothing to clean"
+
+zine.dvi: $(TEXFILES)
+	latex zine
+	makeglossaries zine
+	latex zine
+
+zine-graphics.pdf: zine.dvi
+	dvipng -D 300 -T bbox zine.dvi -o"zine%03d.png"
+	find *.png -exec mogrify -shave 250x250 \{\} \;
+	convert *.png zine-graphics.pdf
+
+zine.pdf: zine.dvi
+	dvipdf.sh zine

Journalling Zine/glossary.tex

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+\chapter{Glossaries}
+
+The glossaries should print just after this.  If things are working it will
+have a main glossary, and a glossary for acronyms.  
+
+\printglossaries

Journalling Zine/why-journal.tex

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+\chapter{Why Journal?}
+
+I feel that why a person journals is very individual, and my reasons 
+(mostly what I present here), won't necessarily be your reasons.  So the
+very quick answer is, ``for whatever reasons you want.''
+
+Of course if you wanted that kind of answer you wouldn't really be looking
+at this 8 page zine (as I'm writing this) would you?
+
+So, maybe let's look at what I had before.
+
+I can think of really 5 reasons that I journal.  They are to get stuff done,
+my wellbeing, creativity, documentation, and communication.
+
+Let's just do a big overview here...
+
+\section{Why I journal}
+
+As I said above, it's basically 5 big reasons.  To get stuff done, basically 
+to have something that helps me focus on what I'm trying to get done in my
+life.  I would say that is my main reason overall as I'm writing this, but
+it has been different main reasons in the past.
+
+The next reason is for my wellbeing.  Of late a lot of that has been about
+processing information that is getting in the way for me.  Basically writing
+some ideas out.
+
+The third reason I thing is creativity.  This has been a reason in the past
+that I keep trying to put more focus on, but it keeps not happening all that 
+well.
+
+Documentation is a really important part of some of my journalling.  It 
+sort of comes with stuff that is above, but sometimes I will be doing stuff
+more so because I want to document something rather than any specific one
+of the other reasons.
+
+Then there's the communication.  That can be for me both "internal" 
+communication (ie. talking things out, or making things clear for myself),
+and external communication.
+
+I guess I can look more at the different reasons, but they kind of overlap 
+in a lot of ways.  Keeping them separate is just a way to have different
+aspects easier to locate I guess.
+
+\subsection{Getting Stuff Done}
+
+A lot of what I have done in terms of this comes from {\it The Bullet 
+Journal Method} by Ryder Carroll.  Well, the process I am using for that 
+mostly comes from his work, the reason that I started to look at a journal
+as the means to accomplish that, actually probably largely comes from
+his work as well.
+
+So for me, I will often get some ideas (lots of ideas just get lost), that
+I want to do something with.  Not writing them down, really just means that
+they kind of disappear.  
+
+Various ways of writing them down have been tried, from simple lists, to 
+stuff like daily planners.  None have really been great.  The simple lists
+can be good for stuff like, ``I want to pick this stuff up when I go 
+downtown,'' but even with that it seems useful to have means of updating
+it while doing the task (I have some very small journals for this purpose, 
+about A6 sized).
+
+So, having some way to work with getting some stuff done is a very 
+important part of my journalling experience.  Right now probably the most
+important reason.
+
+\subsection{Wellbeing}
+
+Wellbeing has been a reason that I have kept a journal in the past, and
+it has been the main reason that I have kept it at times.  
+
+Sometimes that has been similar to how I'm currently using it when I do
+use it for wellbeing.  That is writing a bit of a log about what is going
+on, to process my thoughts.
+
+Other times it has been more of a matter of using it to track things such
+as whether I'm taking my medications, or going for a walk.  It also has been used
+to much less effect to track the days that I have flares of my health 
+problems.
+
+Any of these things are really important to me to be able to have my 
+journal work for me.
+
+Part of that leads to some of my reasons as to what I have been doing in
+terms of how I am handling my journal.  
+
+\subsection{Creativity}
+
+This is often a goal I have with my journalling.  Probably the biggest 
+direction that my journal goes, in terms of creativity, has been in terms
+of actually the creation of the journal, and my figuring out what is 
+working or not working with it.
+
+I really would like to have other creative projects that it helps to 
+contribute to, but right now there's not much of that going on.
+
+Having the space to handle that has been important in why I journal
+the way that I do.
+
+\subsection{Documentation}
+
+The big thing here that I really want to have with this is probably
+two different things.  Documenting how things are going with my life,
+so connecting to the wellbeing stuff, and the getting stuff done.  
+
+Then I also want to have stuff documenting stuff that I don't really do
+often enough to have reasons to have it ready at my brain tip.
+
+Some examples of the first, is just noting that with keeping track of what
+I planned to do, and to some extent what I actually did (more so in 
+regards to whether I did what was planned or not).
+
+Also with recording those getting thoughts out part that I mentioned
+in the wellbeing subsection, helps to record those thoughts so I can
+look at them without too much difficulty.
+
+The more looking at processes could be recording stuff about making 
+the journals, or writing about what I'm doing with a computer to update
+the way things are working (as I'm doing this, I'm doing a new setup 
+on a computer and that's been important to note what I'm doing).  
+
+\subsection{Communication}
+
+I rarely (though I can't say never) directly write stuff in my journal
+that is for another person who will read it from the journal.  
+Occasionally when I have created a drawing or something in my journal,
+I will share that, though in a lot of cases unless the journal is 
+specifically for a specific project, by making some copy of it and
+sharing the copy.
+
+A more common thing I do, is writing stuff down that I intend to 
+figure out what to say to someone.  Or what more happens, is to have
+some record of something that I want to make sure that I'll be able to
+review in the future.  
+
+\section{Why I Journal How I Journal}
+
+This sort of will go a bit into how I journal, but not so much that it 
+gets into details, but some basics.
+
+One thing that I keep coming back to, is the physicality that at least
+for me is important.  I sometimes try to pull the process into a digital
+form, and do so to some extent with regards to the projects like this
+one here.
+
+I guess that looking at the physicality, the portability, the flexibility, 
+reduced distractions, ``cordlessness,'' and the possible alternatives.  
+
+\subsection{Physicality}
+
+The having a physical journal for me is really important, and a big part
+of why that works is, because if it is physically there, it really far 
+more difficult to ignore.  
+
+That said, I've also found that sometimes it has the problem with having
+to take up space, it can easily get shoved into a corner.  
+
+Another aspect of it, falls a bit into the flexibility area of how this
+ends up working, is because it is a physical form, it is easy to just
+do things wherever or however you want.  
+
+For drawing the doing stuff physically works quite well, at least in terms
+of initially.  I usually end up with a quick sketch that gives me a sense
+of the general object or whatever, then I can end up doing something from
+that in a digital form.  
+
+More in the flexibility area is that it's easy to take it, and create like
+charts that can be difficult to figure out on a computer works really well.
+
+\subsection{Portability}
+
+While doing something with a smartphone often is far more portable than even
+the 40 page old journal, or the new 58 page "half-letter" size journals.  It
+can more easily be pulled out without becoming a distraction.
+
+I know that I can often just pick it up and move it, and the whole idea of
+a smartphone being a better option, really doesn't work for me, because I 
+don't (and haven't for some time) have a cell phone of any sort.
+
+\subsection{Flexibility}
+
+I have mentioned above about the flexibility.  I found that one thing with
+it being physical, and not really of any specific format (I've created some
+specific formats in the past, only to of late feeling that they aren't so 
+useful), allows me to use it however I want.  
+
+The previous version of the journal, while I didn't do much with it, I had
+created pages that were labeled for the purpose that I intended with them,
+and while I could without too much trouble, just ``ignore'' that I was 
+using a page for a purpose that it wasn't really meant for.
+
+Reducing the ``design,'' feels like it will work out better (will take 
+some time to get to testing) gives more room to do whatever I want with
+it.  
+
+\subsection{Reduced Distractions}
+
+This is something that I find is maybe one of the most important reasons
+for using a physical book, and not a smartphone, or doing it on the 
+computer.
+
+When writing, or drawing, or whatever in a book, it is difficult to 
+``just go check out'' something else.  While on a computer, or mobile 
+device it is very easy to just pick something else up while doing the work 
+when working on a computer or mobile device.  
+
+Writing in a physical journal, it is a lot easier to continue focusing on
+what you are doing in the journal.  
+
+\subsection{Cordlessness}
+
+The doing it with pencil and paper, means that I don't have to worry about
+even power, let alone internet connection or anything.
+
+This may seem like the world is such that the lack of internet or the lack
+of power really isn't something which a person really needs to think a
+whole lot about.
+
+While I rarely have times of extended power outages (or at least hadn't, 
+but this past year we've had 2 outages of over 12 hours), I am often 
+without internet even at home intermittently almost every day.  
+
+The fact that it will work with nothing other than what is there.  No 
+plugging it in.  Or replacing batteries.  The technology is ``just 
+there.''
+
+\subsection{Possible Alternatives}
+
+I know that there are other options, such as a daily journal, or formatted
+journal with notes or whatever for prompts.  I think these can be useful,
+but due to the lack of flexibility, it can lead to starting to work with
+it, but then because it isn't really working ending up dropping it.
+
+The other options which I've often used are some electronic versions,
+some have just as much, if not more lack of flexibility as going and
+buying a journal with daily entries.  The flexible solutions I have found
+for doing it on my computer are largely finding ways to work with basic
+formats in ways that just work for me.
+
+Simple text files that I format, and stuff like that have worked, but
+usually with regards to having some level of logging stuff within a 
+project that I'm working on, with the computer.
+
+Specific journals, for recording specific type works such as logging
+your reading or similar type things, may be useful, though not really
+needed.  

Journalling Zine/zine.tex

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+\input{000-header}
+
+\mainmatter
+
+\include{why-journal}
+
+\input{900-footer}