The Joy Journal

I watched a great video on YouTube that showed the use of an app where you can document daily the things that you are thankful for that day. It's similar to my 'Good things jar' video that I filmed a little while back but more of a digital version.
It's presented in a really nice way, you can choose fonts and change the background picture if you want to, and it's a daily log that is kept forever, I've only been doing it a short while but I love flicking back to reflect on the day previously and what was so great about that day.

So, yes while I may be in the study gloom period I can still pick out so many wonderful things to be thankful about today!

The app is totally free, and slightly different interface for the iphone to ipad but both do pretty much the same thing.

I get to live my librarian dream!

I downloaded Good Reads on a complete whim and turned out having the best time although maybe a slight waste of time!

The app had this great feature where if you scan the barcodes on the books that you own, it identifies them and puts them in your 'virtual book shelf'

Then you get to catagorise them in sections like 'to-read' 'have read' and ones that you especially feel like you want to talk about you write a review on!

I got a little carried away with the scanning- it was just so much fun! I always thought the scanning of the books at the library looked like the very best part of the job so I went a little cray-cray
Here's what the fancy tool looks like

If you like the sound of GoodReads then I suggest you get an account, it's like social networking for books, and I'm not even a that big reader, I just do a little when I can and have the chance.

So here's my account: http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/9834819-alexia

And if you get the chance... I say get the app, it's much more fun than visiting the website- and by that I mean the fun scan-beep feature