I've written daily in a journal for 15 years. Mine is on the computer, on my hard drive. I like to be able to edit and only the computer allows that. Also, the volume of my writing prohibits a paper journal. I find it very helpful and good company. I feel such relief to write in it when i'm upset. It's rare for me to re-read them but i wonder if i will when i'm a senior. I started out using just the WordPad word processing accessory that comes with Windows. It's fine but i wanted a little more functionality, especially a thesaurus so i upgraded to Word. I really like journalling! Hope you do too!