Well, you are writing for yourself, but you aren’t writing yourself right now who has the event readily accessible in memory. Do you think that you will remember why you decided not leave apartment after seeing the blue civic in a week? A month? 5 years? If no, then fill in the details. For censoring, just make sure the file or physical thing is safe, or you can pretend that you are communicating to your future self through some insecure means and need to encrypt it.
Do you think censoring names will lead to censoring details will lead to incomplete/wrong/skewed records? My current thinking goes “I should note down this weird experience.” → “Oh crap, I can’t use this person’s real name.” → “What’s a good fake name?” → “Ionoooo, his name is just David. Murr.” → end up not writing down anything.
Initial, symbol, or phrase. Then you can go somewhere else and write down who each of the symbols refers to, but in a different place so that someone would need to find both objects in order to decipher. And then you could encrypt it to be super safe! (and save the encryption key yet somewhere else)
Thanks, but the kind of thing you described will just make me less inclined to write at all. I think I tend to really strongly associate people with their name; like I don’t give anyone nicknames automatically, or something? So having to find fitting nicknames just feels like a huge amount of extra work. Does that ever happen to you? ^_^
I just gave up and started writing (on paper) using real first names under the assumption that most people wouldn’t care anyway. I guess I’ll see how that goes. ^_^
Well, you are writing for yourself, but you aren’t writing yourself right now who has the event readily accessible in memory. Do you think that you will remember why you decided not leave apartment after seeing the blue civic in a week? A month? 5 years? If no, then fill in the details. For censoring, just make sure the file or physical thing is safe, or you can pretend that you are communicating to your future self through some insecure means and need to encrypt it.
Do you think censoring names will lead to censoring details will lead to incomplete/wrong/skewed records? My current thinking goes “I should note down this weird experience.” → “Oh crap, I can’t use this person’s real name.” → “What’s a good fake name?” → “Ionoooo, his name is just David. Murr.” → end up not writing down anything.
Initial, symbol, or phrase. Then you can go somewhere else and write down who each of the symbols refers to, but in a different place so that someone would need to find both objects in order to decipher. And then you could encrypt it to be super safe! (and save the encryption key yet somewhere else)
Thanks, but the kind of thing you described will just make me less inclined to write at all. I think I tend to really strongly associate people with their name; like I don’t give anyone nicknames automatically, or something? So having to find fitting nicknames just feels like a huge amount of extra work. Does that ever happen to you? ^_^
I just gave up and started writing (on paper) using real first names under the assumption that most people wouldn’t care anyway. I guess I’ll see how that goes. ^_^