Thank you so much! I just got my kindle scribe today and am so glad I did! I love how it truly feels like writing on paper. I have trouble writing on an iPad. I was thinking, how does it work for journaling, and before I could search, youtube brought this video up. Again, thank you, from someone else who has been journaling over 60 years.
I love your process. You can easily take the scribe with you. Print when you want,saves on erasers😊 Keep it up. I love going back and reading years back in my journals.
Hey Len, thanks for the video. I too am an analog journaler. I'll be getting the Scribe soon. Excited to try moving to the Kindle for journaling with the option to print for posterity.
What an EXCELLENT, useful and informative video! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I was looking for a good quality E-Reader that can do simple journaling for my upcoming global travels, and wasn't sure if the Scribe would work, rather than the much more complex Android based E-Ink tablets. This video tells me the Scribe will be perfect for my needs! THANKS!!!
That was great Len. Happy New Year to you all. I hope you will get after Amazon this year to push for new features for the Scribe and new Scribes, as well. It feels as though Amazon is scaling back on these devices. You are our best hope to push for more. All the best. Bruce
I'd love to see a smaller Scribe, I think, though this one is probably the perfect size for journaling. What other new features would you like? Thanks for your comment and Happy New Year from the Sunshine State!
Thank you Len, this was a great video! I just subscribed to your channel. I will put into practice the information you provided here, except I would not want or need to print everything out. I love the Scribe as well, and am hoping that Amazon puts out a color version of this device in the near future. Thank you again and Happy New Year.
I very much enjoyed watching your journaling process. I’ve been journaling nearly all my 56 years, I am an author, and I love e-ink tablets. I’ve had two different Supernote, and a Boox tablet, sold those, and just ordered the Scribe. I think your method of creating a year folder then monthly notebooks will fit quite nicely for me. 😊
This delights me. Thanks very much for letting me know about your journaling. I hope you love the scribe as much as I do. As it happens, I seem to have shifted from journaling on the scribe to journaling on my iPad using an Apple Pencil and the notable app. I love that I can drop photos and other things into my journal pages. I still use the scribe, but for more personal intuitive writing.
@@LenEdgerly I used to journal on my iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil in Notable, but I’m just not a fan of the Apple Pencil writing experience and much prefer eink devices for that 😊
Thanks for this video - truly helpful to get a feel for the Scribe as I overanalyze making this purchase for now the second year in a row. Haha! I think it's time to try it out. My question for you is what kind of storage you have on your Scribe - 16 GB? 32GB? 64GB? And do you keep all of your journals on your scribe as you build your journal "library"? Or will you need to move last year's journal entries to your computer to free up space on the Scribe? I have no concept of how large the scribe files are so not sure how important storage will be. I plan to use my Scribe as a holder of MANY notebooks of varying subjects so that I don't need to fill my backpack with 7 physical notebooks whenever I want to brainstorm about my art business AND think up new RUclips video ideas AND manage my kids' needs AND draft a Chiristmas letter and so on. So I'd rather get one with sufficient storage because offloading various notebooks won't get me to my goal of carrying it all with me. Thank you!
From what I have seen on Reddit, folks say the 16 gig is more than enough room even if you have lots of notebook pages and lots of books on the device--the storage gets eaten up when you do graphics heavy stuff like manga or audiobooks. That being said, I would love to hear from someone who is a heavy notebook user as to a rough idea of the avg size of each notebook 'page.' I went with 16 gigs cuz of budget constraints, and hope it will be ok.
Hi Len……finally getting around to finding your new RUclips video on using the Kindle Scribe. Thought it was terrific. I am amazed at how much you write every day, because the book at the end looked like it may be too heavy to lift. I do a little journaling, but mostly kind of a diary, but I skip many days. Would love if you could do a video on how you journal, and some examples of what you are journaling on. I hope you start to do more videos…..this was a very good start.
I don't print out my entries, I end up hand copying them all into my actual paper journal each month. Kind of defeats the purpose of digital journaling but I don’t want to waste my already written in journals. I just love the convenience of writing on the Scribe.
I like that! Good use of Scribe. Journaling is so personal, and I love hearing how different people use tools for the activity. Thanks for your comment!
Thank you for another great video! You might’ve just converted me from reMarkable. May I ask what cover you’re using in the video? Might want to get one just like it.
Glad to hear it, Victor! I love the Amazon leather folio cover for the Scribe, which is shown in the video. Here's a link: www.amazon.com/Kindle-Scribe-Leather-Cover-only/dp/B0B2H6K2C9
I appreciate your instruction. People who do not keep a journal. I just want to say they are not really just for posterity, but a lot of times it's handy to find out when something happened. Because most times your memory is not even close.
I just bought the Scribe, to read books on its larger screen, and now also wondering what good could its pen be for me. Thank you Len for taking the time to make this video and sharing your experience. There are a myriad of Scribe videos on RUclips but yours is the only one I have found being the result of hundreds, if not thousands, hours of practice. I've never "journaled" but I think I can understand its value for the person who does it; calmly going back over things which have made the day, reviewing some of them in more details, possibly also a way to promote what worked better, what was fun. In this regard, there wouldn't even be a need to keep previous days' entries. Writing matters, reading back what was previously written less so. Am I onto something? I lazily use Google services to revisit my past, Google Photos, the timeline in Google Maps. A consistently maintained journal appears to me as the ultimate way to revisit past events, locations. I'd be curious knowing how often do you guys revisit past months and years, and why?
Just a quick comment on the backing up process. If you have your scribe on wi-fi, it will backup automatically or better yet sync automatically to your Amazon cloud. So there is no need for you to back it up manually by emailing your notes anywhere.
I'd thought I needed to email my journal each month to myself, so I could print it out for my paper notebook. But maybe I can do that simply by moving the journal file from the one that automatically is available via the Kindle cloud. I will try this out. You may have saved me a step, Freddy. Thanks!
@@LenEdgerly Hi Len, that part, I'm not sure of. I'm just simply talking about backing things up. In other words, so you don't have to worry about your device breaking or losing it and then not having your notes forever. In terms of what you're doing about printing it out, that I'm honestly not sure of.
That was enjoyable and informative. Thank you. You have a perfect presenting style and voice. Presumably, the Scribe has enough capacity to store many years of journals if folks didn't want to print them out?
Thanks, Chris. And yes, the Scribe has lots of capacity, and my journal pages are also stored in the Amazon Cloud automatically, whether I print them out or not.
I'm 52' and a new kindle scribe user. I would like to leave my daughter the life lessons I learnt and this is a great way to do it. What pen option do you choose on the scribe while journaling?
Great video, I have both a scribe and the reMarkable and I find the scribe so limiting it usually is used for just PDF annotations, rather than journalling or as a notebook. Especially if using something a bit more structured, your PDF annotations are not synced to the cloud, so you need to remember to email them back to yourself, you can't duplicate pages, you can't re-arrange pages. In the notebook section, you can't have your own templates at all, there are no layers, it's just so close to being good, it's frustrating Amazon don't add these missing features already. Great video though, thank you :)
@@BuntysTube I have a PDF version of the 5 minute journal (actually customised for my needs), and on the reMarkable I can duplicate pages, I can access this journal on any device, the whole feel of the device is still superior (even if the hardware is a bit dated), I can also add tags - none of this is possible on the scribe. This isn't a dealbreaker by any means but something to note.
Happy New Year and thanks as always for the valuable information. I see you've acquired another Scribe cover! Is this replacing the green premium model or an addition to the stable?
i pressed the the video to see the kindle scribe but ended want to know more about journaling , why its important and why you love it that much , how i can start ?
I've journaled for almost 60 years. I just began journaling in my Scribe, and I love it. Because I also love using my many many fountain pens, I'm doing something I never thought I'd do - keep 2 notebooks at a time. There are a few things I don't really like - or haven't yet figured out. 1. I REALLY don't like having my journal page show up as the last thing used at the bottom of my library page. Even if I close my journal until I'm at the folder cover, the handwriting shows. For me, it's like waving a flag to anyone who randomly opens my Scribe: "journal ahead if you want to snoop!" (Nor do I like it stored in the library for the same reason.) 2. I can't add any detritus, such as a ticket stub, as I might in a hard copy. 3. Can't add pages in the middle of the journal. 4. I don't think I can use a sticky note in a notebook. And, a comment: the pen/stylus with the eraser on the end is the premium pen, more expensive than the standard. The standard pen relies on the drop down menu for the eraser. FWIW, if anyone has other android devices with write - on capabilities, this premium scribe pen works beautifully. It's my favorite, and I bought a 2nd for this purpose. (does NOT work on an iPad.)
Mary, I never realized that the last notebook shows up at the bottom of the home screen on the Scribe. I was grateful that the Scribe does not show my journal even if it's the last thing I've opened. It shows the most recent book instead. But I see what you'r saying about the thumbnail of my journal at the bottom of the page. After singing the praises of journaling on the Scribe in this video, I actually have switched to doing most of my current journal in Notable on my Mac and iPad. I love being able to insert photos and links, and choosing color highlights for some text. I still journal sometimes in my Scribe, though, and love the simple interface--just the words. I agree the Premium stylus is the way to go. Thanks for your comments!
You can insert blank pages anywhere in your journal or move around your already written ones. Scroll down the top menu and you will see options in form of icons on the top right-hand side . Click the icon on the very left (I think it's nine little square, not sure of technical name). All the pages you have written on as well as any blank you have flicked to will show up (Create a new blank page if necessary). With the pen, select the last page, the one you flicked to and is blank. You will get another menu with the option to move on the top right-hand side and choose move. Move it to where you want by clicking in between the pages you want to insert it. I feel this has been a long winded explanation but hope it has helped.
Is it convenient to write long essays like 3k words in one go on kindle scribe? Without affecting your natural writing & pace? And distance between the lines is as standard?
I would think so. I have not written an essay on the Scribe. I tend to draft long form writing with a Freewrite Traveler keyboard, which is a focused writing tool that still enables me to type quickly. Here’s a link: getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler
I find that the surface is rather slippery, which makes the pen difficult to control & results in bad penmanship. Do you have a papery screen protector?
I don't have a screen protector on my Scribe, William. You might try holding the stylus with a lighter grip. I also find that my ergonomic arrangement of myself while writing helps to make my writing legible and pleasing to put on the Scribe screen. My favorite place is an upholstered wicker chair in my studio, with tea on the side table. The case with the slanted position for writing also helps sometimes. I hope that's helpful and that your writing adjusts to the Scribe in a sustainable--and legible!--way.
This is all a little too digital for my liking, and I say this as an IT Engineer. I spend all day, every day on computers and servers; journalling is something that takes me away from all that, along with reading: just me and my thoughts. Also, I really do not want Amazon knowing my each and every thought. Anything that's on their servers belongs to them, to use as they wish (training AI models, etc.) These giant tech companies are soulless bastards, and I don't trust them a jot.
Here's a wild and crazy hack: If you want a hard copy of a handwritten journal, how about buying a lined paper diary and writing in it with a pen. If you want the Scribe's erasing capability, also buy a Ticonderoga #2.
Love your passion and dedication to journaling. It is impressive and admirable. Thank you for sharing this excellent video!
Fantastic information, Len. Thank you. I look forward to seeing your other content. Thank you!
Thank you so much! I just got my kindle scribe today and am so glad I did! I love how it truly feels like writing on paper. I have trouble writing on an iPad. I was thinking, how does it work for journaling, and before I could search, youtube brought this video up. Again, thank you, from someone else who has been journaling over 60 years.
A great way to end the year, Len! Thank you for this. I love my Scribe too.
Happy new year, Mark. Thanks for your comment. Scribes rule!
Nice video. And the final result looked great!
Got my Scribe today “Wheee!! Set up was easy. Went to you tube to see how you navigate in order to actually journal.
I love your process.
You can easily take the scribe with you.
Print when you want,saves on erasers😊
Keep it up. I love going back and reading years back in my journals.
Very good info! I was on the fence regarding Scribe purchase but not now.
I admire your dedication to journaling sir.
Gretu=ings from Caledonia. Splendid video. I am now convinced that Kindle Scribe is the notebook that will help me write my novels. Kind regards, Jim
Great video mate 👏🏼
I love my Scribe and do the same thing. I bought a ream of printer paper that is 3 hole punched. Wonderful device! Enjoy it.
This is such a wonderful idea! I can't wait to see how big my 2024 binder is!
Wow! Impressive job, sir! Thanks for sharing your workflow over that giant journal book...
Hey Len, thanks for the video. I too am an analog journaler. I'll be getting the Scribe soon. Excited to try moving to the Kindle for journaling with the option to print for posterity.
Coolest 65 year old ever!!!
What an EXCELLENT, useful and informative video! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I was looking for a good quality E-Reader that can do simple journaling for my upcoming global travels, and wasn't sure if the Scribe would work, rather than the much more complex Android based E-Ink tablets. This video tells me the Scribe will be perfect for my needs! THANKS!!!
That was great Len. Happy New Year to you all. I hope you will get after Amazon this year to push for new features for the Scribe and new Scribes, as well. It feels as though Amazon is scaling back on these devices. You are our best hope to push for more. All the best. Bruce
I'd love to see a smaller Scribe, I think, though this one is probably the perfect size for journaling. What other new features would you like? Thanks for your comment and Happy New Year from the Sunshine State!
Well done and very helpful! Thank you so much for sharing so many tips (and your gorgeous journal)!
Thank you for a practical and inspirational video! 💯
thank you just received this kindle scribe and am having a blast learning. you are adorable and thank you!
This video was very helpful! Thank you!
Thank you Len, this was a great video! I just subscribed to your channel. I will put into practice the information you provided here, except I would not want or need to print everything out. I love the Scribe as well, and am hoping that Amazon puts out a color version of this device in the near future. Thank you again and Happy New Year.
I very much enjoyed watching your journaling process. I’ve been journaling nearly all my 56 years, I am an author, and I love e-ink tablets. I’ve had two different Supernote, and a Boox tablet, sold those, and just ordered the Scribe. I think your method of creating a year folder then monthly notebooks will fit quite nicely for me. 😊
This delights me. Thanks very much for letting me know about your journaling. I hope you love the scribe as much as I do. As it happens, I seem to have shifted from journaling on the scribe to journaling on my iPad using an Apple Pencil and the notable app. I love that I can drop photos and other things into my journal pages. I still use the scribe, but for more personal intuitive writing.
@@LenEdgerly I used to journal on my iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil in Notable, but I’m just not a fan of the Apple Pencil writing experience and much prefer eink devices for that 😊
I agree with you. I prefer the eink writing experience, too. @@MrsBennett67
Thanks for this video - truly helpful to get a feel for the Scribe as I overanalyze making this purchase for now the second year in a row. Haha! I think it's time to try it out. My question for you is what kind of storage you have on your Scribe - 16 GB? 32GB? 64GB? And do you keep all of your journals on your scribe as you build your journal "library"? Or will you need to move last year's journal entries to your computer to free up space on the Scribe? I have no concept of how large the scribe files are so not sure how important storage will be. I plan to use my Scribe as a holder of MANY notebooks of varying subjects so that I don't need to fill my backpack with 7 physical notebooks whenever I want to brainstorm about my art business AND think up new RUclips video ideas AND manage my kids' needs AND draft a Chiristmas letter and so on. So I'd rather get one with sufficient storage because offloading various notebooks won't get me to my goal of carrying it all with me. Thank you!
From what I have seen on Reddit, folks say the 16 gig is more than enough room even if you have lots of notebook pages and lots of books on the device--the storage gets eaten up when you do graphics heavy stuff like manga or audiobooks. That being said, I would love to hear from someone who is a heavy notebook user as to a rough idea of the avg size of each notebook 'page.' I went with 16 gigs cuz of budget constraints, and hope it will be ok.
Hi Len……finally getting around to finding your new RUclips video on using the Kindle Scribe. Thought it was terrific. I am amazed at how much you write every day, because the book at the end looked like it may be too heavy to lift. I do a little journaling, but mostly kind of a diary, but I skip many days. Would love if you could do a video on how you journal, and some examples of what you are journaling on. I hope you start to do more videos…..this was a very good start.
Glad it was helpful, Dan. And thanks for the encouragement to do another video about my journaling habit!
Очень хорошее видео. Пойду заказывать такую же книгу)
I don't print out my entries, I end up hand copying them all into my actual paper journal each month. Kind of defeats the purpose of digital journaling but I don’t want to waste my already written in journals. I just love the convenience of writing on the Scribe.
I like that! Good use of Scribe. Journaling is so personal, and I love hearing how different people use tools for the activity. Thanks for your comment!
Thank you for another great video! You might’ve just converted me from reMarkable.
May I ask what cover you’re using in the video? Might want to get one just like it.
Glad to hear it, Victor! I love the Amazon leather folio cover for the Scribe, which is shown in the video. Here's a link: www.amazon.com/Kindle-Scribe-Leather-Cover-only/dp/B0B2H6K2C9
I appreciate your instruction. People who do not keep a journal. I just want to say they are not really just for posterity, but a lot of times it's handy to find out when something happened. Because most times your memory is not even close.
I just bought the Scribe, to read books on its larger screen, and now also wondering what good could its pen be for me. Thank you Len for taking the time to make this video and sharing your experience. There are a myriad of Scribe videos on RUclips but yours is the only one I have found being the result of hundreds, if not thousands, hours of practice.
I've never "journaled" but I think I can understand its value for the person who does it; calmly going back over things which have made the day, reviewing some of them in more details, possibly also a way to promote what worked better, what was fun. In this regard, there wouldn't even be a need to keep previous days' entries. Writing matters, reading back what was previously written less so. Am I onto something?
I lazily use Google services to revisit my past, Google Photos, the timeline in Google Maps. A consistently maintained journal appears to me as the ultimate way to revisit past events, locations. I'd be curious knowing how often do you guys revisit past months and years, and why?
Just a quick comment on the backing up process. If you have your scribe on wi-fi, it will backup automatically or better yet sync automatically to your Amazon cloud. So there is no need for you to back it up manually by emailing your notes anywhere.
I'd thought I needed to email my journal each month to myself, so I could print it out for my paper notebook. But maybe I can do that simply by moving the journal file from the one that automatically is available via the Kindle cloud. I will try this out. You may have saved me a step, Freddy. Thanks!
@@LenEdgerly Hi Len, that part, I'm not sure of. I'm just simply talking about backing things up. In other words, so you don't have to worry about your device breaking or losing it and then not having your notes forever. In terms of what you're doing about printing it out, that I'm honestly not sure of.
That was enjoyable and informative. Thank you. You have a perfect presenting style and voice. Presumably, the Scribe has enough capacity to store many years of journals if folks didn't want to print them out?
Thanks, Chris. And yes, the Scribe has lots of capacity, and my journal pages are also stored in the Amazon Cloud automatically, whether I print them out or not.
I appreciate the nuts and bolts walk through.
I'm 52' and a new kindle scribe user. I would like to leave my daughter the life lessons I learnt and this is a great way to do it. What pen option do you choose on the scribe while journaling?
Great video, I have both a scribe and the reMarkable and I find the scribe so limiting it usually is used for just PDF annotations, rather than journalling or as a notebook. Especially if using something a bit more structured, your PDF annotations are not synced to the cloud, so you need to remember to email them back to yourself, you can't duplicate pages, you can't re-arrange pages. In the notebook section, you can't have your own templates at all, there are no layers, it's just so close to being good, it's frustrating Amazon don't add these missing features already.
Great video though, thank you :)
Hi mate, what's better about journaling on reMarkable
@@BuntysTube I have a PDF version of the 5 minute journal (actually customised for my needs), and on the reMarkable I can duplicate pages, I can access this journal on any device, the whole feel of the device is still superior (even if the hardware is a bit dated), I can also add tags - none of this is possible on the scribe.
This isn't a dealbreaker by any means but something to note.
Happy New Year and thanks as always for the valuable information. I see you've acquired another Scribe cover! Is this replacing the green premium model or an addition to the stable?
Great video!! Ty!
i pressed the the video to see the kindle scribe but ended want to know more about journaling , why its important and why you love it that much , how i can start ?
Is it possible to export notebooks? Algo, if I print screen a book, can I attach the print to a notebook?
I've journaled for almost 60 years. I just began journaling in my Scribe, and I love it. Because I also love using my many many fountain pens, I'm doing something I never thought I'd do - keep 2 notebooks at a time. There are a few things I don't really like - or haven't yet figured out. 1. I REALLY don't like having my journal page show up as the last thing used at the bottom of my library page. Even if I close my journal until I'm at the folder cover, the handwriting shows. For me, it's like waving a flag to anyone who randomly opens my Scribe: "journal ahead if you want to snoop!" (Nor do I like it stored in the library for the same reason.)
2. I can't add any detritus, such as a ticket stub, as I might in a hard copy.
3. Can't add pages in the middle of the journal.
4. I don't think I can use a sticky note in a notebook.
And, a comment: the pen/stylus with the eraser on the end is the premium pen, more expensive than the standard. The standard pen relies on the drop down menu for the eraser. FWIW, if anyone has other android devices with write - on capabilities, this premium scribe pen works beautifully. It's my favorite, and I bought a 2nd for this purpose. (does NOT work on an iPad.)
Mary, I never realized that the last notebook shows up at the bottom of the home screen on the Scribe. I was grateful that the Scribe does not show my journal even if it's the last thing I've opened. It shows the most recent book instead. But I see what you'r saying about the thumbnail of my journal at the bottom of the page.
After singing the praises of journaling on the Scribe in this video, I actually have switched to doing most of my current journal in Notable on my Mac and iPad. I love being able to insert photos and links, and choosing color highlights for some text. I still journal sometimes in my Scribe, though, and love the simple interface--just the words.
I agree the Premium stylus is the way to go.
Thanks for your comments!
@@LenEdgerly I'm going to try opening a random book after I finish journaling so that will show at the bottom.
The book in my library does show at the bottom of the library. But journal page shows in the book carousel (?) on the home screen.
You can insert blank pages anywhere in your journal or move around your already written ones. Scroll down the top menu and you will see options in form of icons on the top right-hand side . Click the icon on the very left (I think it's nine little square, not sure of technical name). All the pages you have written on as well as any blank you have flicked to will show up (Create a new blank page if necessary). With the pen, select the last page, the one you flicked to and is blank. You will get another menu with the option to move on the top right-hand side and choose move. Move it to where you want by clicking in between the pages you want to insert it. I feel this has been a long winded explanation but hope it has helped.
Is it convenient to write long essays like 3k words in one go on kindle scribe? Without affecting your natural writing & pace? And distance between the lines is as standard?
I would think so. I have not written an essay on the Scribe. I tend to draft long form writing with a Freewrite Traveler keyboard, which is a focused writing tool that still enables me to type quickly. Here’s a link: getfreewrite.com/products/freewrite-traveler
If I'm ever in Sanibel, it will be a nice dinner on me for Len.
I find that the surface is rather slippery, which makes the pen difficult to control & results in bad penmanship. Do you have a papery screen protector?
I don't have a screen protector on my Scribe, William. You might try holding the stylus with a lighter grip. I also find that my ergonomic arrangement of myself while writing helps to make my writing legible and pleasing to put on the Scribe screen. My favorite place is an upholstered wicker chair in my studio, with tea on the side table. The case with the slanted position for writing also helps sometimes. I hope that's helpful and that your writing adjusts to the Scribe in a sustainable--and legible!--way.
Thanks. @@LenEdgerly
Does it have a way of setting up a password, to prevent people from opening it and reading it?
Yep password locked
Just a criticism: you have the digital version of your journal at the end. Is it really necessary to print them as well?! How about the planet Len?!
Fair point! If I keep generating new journal pages on my Scribe at this rate, maybe I should only print out every other year or every third year.
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This is all a little too digital for my liking, and I say this as an IT Engineer. I spend all day, every day on computers and servers; journalling is something that takes me away from all that, along with reading: just me and my thoughts.
Also, I really do not want Amazon knowing my each and every thought. Anything that's on their servers belongs to them, to use as they wish (training AI models, etc.)
These giant tech companies are soulless bastards, and I don't trust them a jot.
It is unbelievable how someone does a 18 minutes video to show you something as simple as write
Ma non potevi scrivere direttamente sulla carta ? 🤨
Here's a wild and crazy hack: If you want a hard copy of a handwritten journal, how about buying a lined paper diary and writing in it with a pen. If you want the Scribe's erasing capability, also buy a Ticonderoga #2.
I like it! I loved those pencils and worked one summer as a uniformed guide at Fort Ticonderoga, which is not where they make the pencils, probably.