Smart journals are both an emerging class of lifelogging applications and novel digital possessions, which are used to create and curate a personal record of one's life. Through an in-depth interview study of analogue and digital journaling practices, and by drawing on a wide range of research around --technologies of memory?, we address fundamental questions about how people manage and value digital records of the past. Appreciating journaling as deeply idiographic, we map a broad range of user practices and motivations and use this understanding to ground four design considerations: recognizing the motivation to  account for one's life ; supporting the  authoring of a unique perspective  and finding a place for  passive tracking as a chronicle . Finally, we argue that smart journals signal a maturing orientation to issues of digital archiving.
['Chris Elsden', 'Abigail Durrant', 'Dave Kirk']
It's Just My History Isn't It?: Understanding Smart Journaling Practices