Brutal, but the only way to be sure. Blast off and glass the thing from space.
Thankfully I didn’t really begin journaling until about ten years ago, so I won’t have quite so much ahead of me. Just the thought though makes me miss long plane flights without network access.
I have compiled them all in a single, massive scrivener file. It took FOREVER. transcribing endless numbers of old high school notebooks and such. It's still missing a few Apple // files that got corrupted. There are one or two who years I can't find, and it breaks my heart. But now it is safe. Scriver has a wordcount feature. Once a year as part of the year-end tasks, I copy everything from everywhere else and I paste a copy in there. GMHHAY doesn't count as the journal. That's separate. Which is insane. Scrivener says that as of the end of last year, we were at 4.029MM words.
Brutal, but the only way to be sure. Blast off and glass the thing from space.
Thankfully I didn’t really begin journaling until about ten years ago, so I won’t have quite so much ahead of me. Just the thought though makes me miss long plane flights without network access.
> As an individual who’s written over a million words in his journal through the years,
How did you come to that number? Rough estimate, or have you properly archived everything?
I have compiled them all in a single, massive scrivener file. It took FOREVER. transcribing endless numbers of old high school notebooks and such. It's still missing a few Apple // files that got corrupted. There are one or two who years I can't find, and it breaks my heart. But now it is safe. Scriver has a wordcount feature. Once a year as part of the year-end tasks, I copy everything from everywhere else and I paste a copy in there. GMHHAY doesn't count as the journal. That's separate. Which is insane. Scrivener says that as of the end of last year, we were at 4.029MM words.