Do people journal a lot less these days - I feel writing diaries used to be more prevalent in previous generations. Diaries are offline and private, so lot less likely to be used against the writer.

Let's say no publishing for the privacy concern. There are a lot of claims that writing is helping the writers think thru things clearly or understand better. I want to explore writing for decision making. What is a decision I should "think thru by writing"? Maybe writing lets the writer weigh pros and cons and be more at peace (for a longer time) with a decision.

Anyway, I have a dozen more open tabs now to check out the the blogs people shared in this thread. Also, recently there are lots of blog posts telling others to write more.

Speaking of open tabs, I have started to think that writing down things is like closing those open tabs of thoughts in the head.