Does it matter which rosary we pray?

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Hey Michael, read my link, look at what happened during this series of apparitions and what Our Lady requested. This is a Rosary, her Rosary, just as much as the Traditional Rosary.
This series of apparitions is less well known but has huge impact and is Church approved.
If you want indulgences for saying Rosaries, do so in public, with others, preferably in a church, and remember confession and communion, and the intentions of the Pope.

There are many ways to get indulgences, one of them is reading the Bible for half an hour, another is attending adoration. Jesus gives His very own indulgence on Divine Mercy Sunday and this is separate from the one the Church gives.
 
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Michael, the Church these days generally doesn’t list indulgences for specific chaplets. Many indulgences for specific chaplets or specific other sacramentals were removed from the manual in the 1960s when it was revised. The only chaplet mentioned under Marian prayers is “the rosary” which is defined as being the five-decade Dominican rosary. This could also include the Franciscan Crown because when you say an entire Franciscan Crown you are basically saying the Dominican rosary with extra decades.

I recommend that for other chaplets, you read the Manual of Indulgences and see if the way you are saying the prayer falls under one of the other categories for an indulgence. For example there is an indulgence for spending time in “mental prayer” and another for devout use of an “article of devotion” which would include a crucifix or medal that might be part of your non-Rosary chaplet. The Chaplet of St. Joseph would probably fall in the section that grants an indulgence for approved prayers to St. Joseph. Etc.

https://d2wldr9tsuuj1b.cloudfront.net/3189/documents/2018/4/Indulgences_v2.pdf

I note that the Rosary (Dominican Rosary) is one of the “Big Four” ways to get a plenary indulgence any day of the year and is the only chaplet prayer that’s one of the “Big Four” as the other three are Scripture reading, Adoration, and Stations of the Cross.
 
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The Rosary was originated by an Irish order of monks who recited the 150 psalms. It became popular with the laity, but it was hard to memorize all those psalms – and written copies were hard to come by. They substituted the Lord’s Prayer, and recited it 150 times, keeping count with a knotted string. The transition to Mary’s Rosary began when people began to add the Angelic Salutation (what the Angel said to Mary.)
 
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But I am Irish and not affiliated with the Dominicans, so I might be biased
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Same here. Me Mither was a Clooney, and the Clooneys trailed the pike in '98. And it was Dick Humphrey who saw James Connolly lying wounded in the street during the Uprising of 1916 and came running out and carried him into the GPO.
 
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