Dot Journaling: A Practical Guide: How to Start and Keep the Planner, To-Do List, and Diary That’ll Actually Help You Get Your Life Together

by Rachel Wilkerson Miller

Journaling by the numbers 12: number of books in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, which was written between 170 and 180 AD, and is credited as the first surviving diary 381–384 AD: years that Egeria, a Gallic pilgrim, wrote a travel journal as an ongoing letter to her friends back home 1450: year that Luca Landucci, an apothecary in Florence, Italy, wrote the first modern diary 176: number of unknown plants and wildflowers that explorers Lewis and Clark noted in their journals 15: number of notebooks that Charles Darwin had with him in 1831 when he began a nearly five-year trip around the world, notebooks he would later say “determined my whole career” 116,080: number of words Darwin wrote in said notebooks 15: age at which Beatrix Potter began writing in a diary, a habit she kept up from 1881 to 1897, in a code known only to her 1958: year that a man named Leslie Linder cracked the code and made it possible to read Potter’s diaries 10: number of gifts that Anne Frank received for her thirteenth birthday on June 12, 1942, one of which was a diary 30 million: number of copies that Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has sold worldwide since its publication 91: number of years that Colonel Ernest Loftus kept a daily diary, which currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-kept diary $30.8 million: final price for which a seventy-two-page notebook belonging to Leonardo da Vinci, called the Codex Hammer, sold at auction in 1994; the buyer was Bill Gates 1988: yea...