The Millions: A Gift to the Future: In Defense of Keeping a Journal. May 25, 2017 Garret Vreeland I start digging around online, and I keep coming up on the term “micro journaling.” As the name implies, this is a short-form style of journaling that encompasses practically anything from the one-sentence journal to the bullet journal. One form of micro-journaling that I really enjoy is a text-messaging service that sends me a daily text asking what I’m grateful for. One could always ... blog.