Talk:Diary

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Product placement?
"In 1908 the Smythson company created the first featherweight diary, enabling diaries to be carried about." This line sounds a lot like a ad inserted into the article. Were there no blank books that can be carried around before 1908?! 46.150.103.149 (talk) 20:56, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Ouch?
I think the paragraph about teenage girls in the Appeal part of this article could be re-written to be a little less judgmental of teenage girls and the ways many of them use their diaries. It could easily be reworked to say the same thing without all the negative language. Quite frankly, I think it's a bit nasty the way it's written.

personal?
The article title is "personal journal", but the intro paragraph mentions government, business, and military, none of which is at all personal. Clearly either the title or the content needs to be changed.For legal reasons.

Very common use of term "diary" not covered in article.
This article fails to cover a very common usage of the term "diary": namely, a book with pages labelled with different days in which one writes appointments, tasks, or other things scheduled to be done on particular days. This is quite different from the diaries mentioned in the article; yet this is very commonly called a diary.

I can't quite think off the top of my head how to mention this and put it into the article properly; but I may do so if I later think how it might be done. I wouldn't be able to supply any references, though, and this mention would just be based on my own personal knowledge, which must be common knowledge to most people. M.J.E. (talk) 17:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Diary (stationery) now done - all references welcome. There was a redirect to personal organizer off the disam page, but that did not really do. Now we need one for newspaper diary columns. Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Audio and video
Could audio or video recordings for the same purpose as that of writing in a diary book, also be called a diary? --95.34.4.130 (talk) 21:33, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

American English/British English
The first paragraph needs to be re-written to reflect the fact that this is the only common usage of the word in American English, while in British English the meaning given at Diary (stationery) is more common. Matt's talk 23:47, 5 June 2013 (UTC)

Six Decade Iraqi Diary
Inman kept a diary for four decades; an Iraqi grandmother has a series covering six. https://twitter.com/ahmedtherawi/status/1079100950189690880 kencf0618 (talk) 19:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Diaire
Comes from French "diaire", that get this meaning, and attested before "diary", because the Latin doesn't have directly a meaming of "diary" when "diaire" has. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 09:59, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Different types of diaries
What about a masterbation diary? — Preceding unsigned comment added by VintageJournaling (talk • contribs) 09:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Private
Usually It is just your own nobody else 199.168.124.224 (talk) 17:23, 28 April 2022 (UTC)