Photos, journalist, audio recordings, video, blogging, printing photos, making music, posting online etc...
How do you record certain events? Make a journal entry? Just keep it in your memory to yourself?
How do you trust you wont forget the small details that you know today?
How do you trust the security of your documented life? your journal, your printed photos?
You you like analogue or digital documentation? Do you store data on HHDs? (they have a ~30 year lifespan) Mdisk? Photos? Pen and Paper?
Childhood memories? How do you view these archives?
Do you even believe in documenting the events of your life? Is it important to you? The quicker you write down an event, the more emotion you can convey.
What do you do and don't do?
I write everywhere all the time. I have a sketchbook where I doodle, I have a small notebook for notes, songs, poems and ideas. I have comp books for drafting, designing and longer form working things out. I use grapheme notepad and have like 15 different folders for organizing all different ideas, from recipes and meal prep, to quotes from authors that I like, article ideas, social media posts ive written I want to repurposed, all sorts of shit. I also have a fuck load of google docs, I do a lot of formal writing, like proposals, analysis, sometimes I just brain dump 15-20 pages, edit it down to like 9-12, and then never share it.
I had a friend who kept one of those little moleskine books and I thought it was cool so I got one and started writing ideas in it. My ideas were bad, but I was trying to learn and develop myself. Years later I'm still jotting and journaling, and my ideas have gotten better, I'm more successful, I taught myself how to write articles, and I can always go back and read old notebooks for ideas and old insights. Its also neat to see me trying to put the pieces together on something I feel like I have a good grasp of now, sometimes the way I'm framing questions or notions and attitudes was pretty insightful.