Reading this article and the comments here make me want to journal again. After reading a book on taking smart notes and finally successfully implementing the zettelkasten technique into my daily life, I feel like I've drifted away from the traditional journal method. Where I now utilize a system of index cards to capture dreams, thought out ideas, task list and concepts, I previously held notebooks that I would attempt to write daily on all various types of things. Reading back on these is an amazing to relive and stir up new feelings.
I found that when I wrote and read things back later, I would have trouble remembering them fully. When I was using a "journal" daily, I started to capture a few key details with every entry to help with recall:
1) Current date and exact time (ex. 10/9/23 @ 9:33am)
2) Music / auditory ambiance (ex. X song was playing in background)
3) Where I was while writing (ex. on couch in living room at X house)
4) A trigger memory (ex. travelled back from X destination yesterday)
When I read the entries that include this metadata, it helps me re-live these times and further spark memories around them.
I'm curious if anyone else has key details like this they include with their journaling that help them. I have a mission to start journaling again and would be fitting to add anything else others might be doing.
A few things: around once a month I log what I've been reading, listening to, watching, playing, and hanging out with.
For the daily journaling I try to focus on a quality of feelings and events, which we could call significance. It is pretty difficult to measure the significance that a thought or event will have in the future, but this process itself is helpful for journaling in the moment, and its most helpful for my future reader self.
That means that when I sit down to journal I no longer focus on the "material" conditions, when I do that it feels like I'm grasping at straws to capture some inner snapshot that by nature is not contained in any of those material factors.
Rather I try to focus on fragments of my inner narrative while being on the lookout for my own biases and mental patterns. It's almost like trying to guess which events for the day will resurface in your dreams, which stick to your subconscious rather than what you think is relevant in the moment that you sit down to write.
I appreciate your input and I like the monthly check-in items. Those are certainly relevant and would be useful looking back.
I'm often trying to influence my dreams and make things stick to my subconscious so they will surface up during them. I find your approach interesting.
I think the fact this was possible via the use of CF workers invalidates your point. Also, you choose to add the Domain Lockdown feature as a direct results of these findings.
I'd feel pretty silly too if my "email filters" kept me from acting sooner on this problem.
Back when Lenovo ran their outlet for refurbished laptops on very database heavy oracle backend (2011?), our little computer shop would buy stuff from them. If you added an item to your cart, it would hold it for 10 min and prevent others from purchasing.
I used AHK to script a process that would automatically add laptops to our cart based on certain search criteria. Then we could sift through their inventory and release what we didn't want.
It was running great until one day it went rouge (okay, was prob human error) and it added EVERY item to our cart and crashed their website. Database error came up, I called them and told them what I did and they were happy to know why it went down.
Every AHK I've made has gone rogue because I want it to do things and it does it well but without guard rails i overwhelm my target every time. Thankfully the target is usually my local and I just mostly reboot
You'd think I'd learn but my scripts usually start small for with one specific use and i enlarge it Unsafely once I think of another use for it
Loops are my danger zone. After a few crashes the first guardrail I end up adding to a script is a stop key combo interrupt. Then figure out what bounds to put only after every mistake. I don't have the foresight to prevent "rogue" behavior
The power button broke on a dell laptop i was working on one time. We had to order the part, but the customer didn't want to wait.
I offered a very cheap alternative, and took his spare wifi antenna cables and cut the off. Then I soldered them DIRECTLY to the motherboard and routed them to hang out the side.
It was like jumper cables, you tap the and the laptop would turn on
Well, the only change that was made was to the email and I was able to create that with gmail so I control it now.
GoDaddy hasn't a clue so I'll just update the email/pw/pin and add 2factor. They say it shows someone logged in but I don't believe that, it's likely a programming bug on their end
Well, the email changed but the password stayed the same and I don't really know what that means. GoDaddy says someone logged in and changed it this morning but they don't log the IP address so I can only guess it's malicious.
That and for those of us seeing the notification that their server is backed up, I can't even see it in action right now. Seems like this should have been cached
I found that when I wrote and read things back later, I would have trouble remembering them fully. When I was using a "journal" daily, I started to capture a few key details with every entry to help with recall:
When I read the entries that include this metadata, it helps me re-live these times and further spark memories around them.I'm curious if anyone else has key details like this they include with their journaling that help them. I have a mission to start journaling again and would be fitting to add anything else others might be doing.