I’m seriously debating getting a journaling app that’s pretty highly recommended, but I’m also kind of afraid to. In my mind, I’d get it on my iPod/phone/future iPad and mostly use it as an on-the-go notepad and make notes on things and ideas that I’d want to write down later in my actual notebooks, but I worry that it would eventually just turn into digitizing my journaling for the rest of my life out of ease and convenience, especially since there’s a desktop app that syncs with the mobile apps via iCloud. That’s something I really don’t want to happen—journaling in hardcopy is very important to me, and I don’t want to get lazy with it. I’ve already BEEN lazy with it in the past…seven years or so, ever since I started blogging, and sometimes there are certain things that happen that I end up blogging about first and then never actually writing about it outside of Tumblr or even Twitter (or in the past, LiveJournal and Blogger), and I feel like that changes things like the tone and depth of what I write, and therefore what I chronicle and remember in the future. I feel like I’m a person that embraces technology and digitization with pretty much open arms, but if I’m going to remain old-fashioned and analog about one thing, I want it to be journaling (OK, and collecting vinyl records, but that’s not in lieu of having an iPod). In this area and maybe others that I’m yet to discover, I think I want to be careful about how I use technology, especially now that I have even easier access to more forms of it.