Funny when I talk to someone, I tell them that I am writing in my diary and sometimes I say journal. Do you own a diary/journal? How do you start off these entries?
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Eh… 
There really isn’t a difference between the two for me. I treat them both equally.
I usually start out with the date and time. Either way I don’t want anybody reading my journals or my diaries lol.
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Same here.
I usually start off diary entry of the day with “dear diary” and then update the entry with the time next to it.
For example,
Dear diary,
I don’t know what to say right now
7pm
Still don’t know what to write about
11.30pm
Right, I’m gonna call it a night
I don’t really write like that but this is just an example of how my diary entry looks like.
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I usually put in the header.
April 29, 2034. 12:14 AM
Then I will start writing until I get sick of writing lol. I always wonder myself if people called it a journal or diary. I just know that when people try to read my journal I get annoyed lol.
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Exactly like that lol. I’d take a picture of my diary entry to show you how it looks like but I will need to look for an entry that isn’t too personal lol.
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Same here. I haven’t wrote in my journals/diaries in years though.
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How comes?
I still do since I find it very therapeutic. I remember that one time, I was discouraged by people I used to be friends with since they think it’s a dumb idea to keep a diary even though I don’t think it’s a dumb idea because it is better than venting to someone that doesn’t care about you or writing a long ass paragraph on Facebook about how shit your day has been.
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I don’t know. I’ll write occasionally when I’m in the mood too, but those are rare times.
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Oh okies.
Anyway here’s an example of one of my entries that isn’t too personal:
Excuse my messy handwriting lol
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Lol, that’s how I have my headers too. You make me want to write in my journals again 
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Hehe that’s what I do in my free time as I said earlier on, I find it very therapeutic. I have a collection of journals that I kept.
A journal is a diary pretending to be fancy
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Really?
Some diaries have these dates (shouldn’t they be called planner) which have entries like this
“29th April 2019
Go to meeting”
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a diary is more personal, you wirite in paragraph form. journal is used like a planer where you show your artistic side. you draw, use fancy letters, magazine cutouts etc. but you also write there your expenses, books you read that month etc. that’s how i see it.
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No
Depends. I see journals as professional. I mean, there are professional journals that are way more different tham what is expected. Diaries are more personal.
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Technically, I don’t think there is… but, most people use a diary for personal things you wouldn’t wish anyone to read. A journal, on the other hand, is more like a memoir of day-to-day activities, which are not necessarily meant to be private.
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Well there are lots of different types of journals but as for personal journals I really just think people prefer to call them journals because it sounds more masculine and less childish or whatever. I don’t think they’re really that different though.
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I guess calling diary is a British thing since we always start off with “dear diary”