diarist
Daily record writer
A diarist is someone who keeps a diary—a personal record of daily events, thoughts, and observations.
The term often implies someone whose diary has literary or historical value: Samuel Pepys remains England's most famous diarist.
A diarist may write for private reflection or with eventual publication in mind.
Returned light or thought
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
solitude · privacy · secrecy · self-awareness · soul-searching · innermost · thoughts · feelings
Items logged or submitted
- journalRecord of daily events
- logbookOfficial record of events
- daybookDaily transaction register
- notebookBlank pages for jottings
record · chronicle · notes · jottings · penmanship · handwriting · scribbling · prose
Self-penned life narrative
- recollectionsRetrieved past experiences
- reminiscencesSpoken or written memories
- memoriesStored past experiences
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
retrospective · experiences · legacy · self-portrait · memoirist · autobiographer · confessions · narrative
reflection
Returned light or thought
- self-examinationScrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
rumination · solitude · privacy · secrecy · self-awareness · soul-searching · innermost · thoughts · feelings · confessional
entries
Items logged or submitted
notebook · record · chronicle · notes · jottings · penmanship · handwriting · scribbling · prose · narrative
autobiography
Self-penned life narrative
- recollectionsRetrieved past experiences
- reminiscencesSpoken or written memories
- memoriesStored past experiences
testimony · retrospective · experiences · legacy · self-portrait · memoirist · autobiographer · confessions · narrative · account
Frank
Direct and sincere
- WoolfCanine surname variant
- KafkaCzech-Jewish literary surname
- Thoreau19th-century American naturalist-essayist
Plath · Evelyn · literary · famous · published · historical · wartime · pioneer · traveler
- writersauthor, novelist, writer, poet, essayist
- literatiauthor, writer, poet, novelist, essayist
- recordkeepersarchivist, chronicler, registrar, recorder, scribe
- Record Keepershistorian, archivist, scribe, annalist, chronicler
- manuscript authorsscribe, copyist, monk, illuminator, translator
- punditscommentator, pundit, political commentator, analyst, talking head
diaristreporter
One who gathers news
journalist · columnist · broadcaster · public intellectual · publicist
diaristreporter
One who gathers news
biographer · chronicler · historian · war correspondent · foreign correspondent
- video diariesRecorded personal accounts
- travel diariesJournals documenting trips
- food diariesRecords of meals consumed
- personal diariesPrivate daily written records
- secret diariesPrivate written records hidden
- The Vampire Diaries