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Diary / journal sentences could be alphabetized to reveal truths

By Hicbd
Fri Feb 4 2022 8:45 am

"A little more than 10 years ago, I began looking back at the diaries I had kept over the previous decade. I wondered if I’d changed. So I loaded all 500,000 words of my journals into Excel to order the sentences alphabetically. Perhaps this would help me identify patterns and repetitions. How many times had I written, 'I hate him,' for example?"

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/02/opinion/sheila-heti-alphabetized-diary-abc.html
https://lithub.com/sheila-heti-turned-her-diaries-into-alphabetized-autofiction-now-theyre-a-newsletter/

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Personal Growth / Self-Help / Development Data Journals / Diaries

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