diff --git a/Journalling Zine/000-header.tex b/Journalling Zine/000-header.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ecfa83 --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/000-header.tex @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +\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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Journalling Zine/900-footer.tex b/Journalling Zine/900-footer.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5379f77 --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/900-footer.tex @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ + +\appendix +\chapter{No idea what we're putting here} + +\backmatter +\include{glossary} +\chapter{Bibliography} +\chapter{Other Titles} + + +\end{document} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Journalling Zine/Makefile b/Journalling Zine/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee22a84 --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# 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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Journalling Zine/glossary-defs.tex b/Journalling Zine/glossary-defs.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/Journalling Zine/glossary.tex b/Journalling Zine/glossary.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..98b036a --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/glossary.tex @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +\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 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Journalling Zine/why-journal.tex b/Journalling Zine/why-journal.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d433652 --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/why-journal.tex @@ -0,0 +1,247 @@ +\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. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Journalling Zine/zine.pdf b/Journalling Zine/zine.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4d6ffb Binary files /dev/null and b/Journalling Zine/zine.pdf differ diff --git a/Journalling Zine/zine.tex b/Journalling Zine/zine.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e81cda --- /dev/null +++ b/Journalling Zine/zine.tex @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +\input{000-header} + +\mainmatter + +\include{why-journal} + +\input{900-footer}