diarist

I've been a diarist before logging my mood.

As the morning began, one Civil War diarist described a scene of 'little campfires rapidly increasing to hundreds in numbers that would shoot up along the hills and plains.

I saw a conversation where a diarist asked what a historian wished to find in someone's diary—like, do they wish for nuanced analyses about current events?

I would say that the world's privileged have a digital addiction problem and that many people should unplug themselves and go out for a walk more often than they do. But if I go analog tomorrow it will be a self-directed decision not because I feel some need to imitate a diarist who hopes to coin a holiday.

That process could not be captured; and it struck Sax forcibly how little of anyone’s thinking was ever recorded or remembered or conveyed in any way to others – the stream of one’s consciousness never shared except in thimblefuls, even by the most prolific mathematician, the most diligent diarist.