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I’m very happy to report that I have yet again updated the community sidebar with a link to a brand new community.

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a community for stationery users and lovers. We talk about pens, fountain pens, notebooks, planners, pencils, mechanical pencils, markers… and in general about everything we use for writing, journaling or drawing.

It’s great to see more communities around interesting topics. And this one obviously is. Well to analog journalers/writers among us at least ;)

I updated the sidebar to add a new ‘Notebooks' community, a place to, I quote,

Share your collection, use cases, note-taking methods, pens, and accessories as you see fit.

You are welcome to share your journaling here too. Anything involving a notebook is welcome!

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Obviously, I'd rather see journaling content posted around here, a dedicated community, but that's absolutely fine to do it anywhere as long as it encourages people to journal more; to talk more about how they do it, and at least as important, if it encourages newcomers to give journaling a chance.

We have no excuse anymore as we now have our dedicated journaling community, a fountain pen one, and now also a notebook community. Maybe we should have one dedicated to the humble but so useful ballpoint pen/gel pen too ;)

I updated the sidebar with a new (new to me, at least) community called 'Web Revival' that wants to be "A movement focused on capturing the creativity and openness of the early Internet."

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At first glance, it's not strictly a journaling or writing related community but I think it's intimately related (and very interesting) as it's very close to what motivates many of us in keeping a journal—the ability to make events/time/thoughts truly ours and not just things we're remotely looking at.

Blogs, that used to be called 'online journals' you know, personal websites, Small Web, small forums (like the communities, here on Lemmy) and so on made exactly that for the Web. They made it our Web. Not just a product we're allowed to consume. We made it and its content.

All those things that once were popular and are not so much nowadays—I'm exaggerating, they're still popular? Well, maybe but allow me to ask this: how many of us go check our respective profiles when we