n.
or journal
Record of events, transactions, or observations kept daily or at frequent intervals; especially a daily record of personal activities, reflections, or feelings.
Written primarily for the writer's use alone, the personal diary usually offers a frankness not found in writing done for publication. The diary form, which began to flower in the late Renaissance, is important as a record of social and political history. The most famous diary in English is that of Samuel Pepys . Other notable journals include those of John Evelyn , Jonathan Swift , Fanny Burney , James Boswell , André Gide , and Virginia Woolf .