logging

I basically have 4 forms of logging now: I either write in my notebook, type into my phone/computer, speak into a cassette recorder, or record with my glasses. Can these all run in parallel? We’ll see. It’s pretty intuitive to know which mode makes sense in the moment, it just makes the overhead of organizing and sharing a little more complex.

How do you render your consciousness honestly? How can you transcend mere fact without getting lost in fanciful prose? Is all mundanity worth logging? Stop by stop, a robot announcer drone-talks the time, and my pointer finger feels foreign as I scratch its side. Who will be at the meetup tonight?

When I’m zoned in on an essay, I’m barely thinking or logging. I wonder if tunnel vision is a natural consequence of flow, or if there’s value in taking 2 minutes off every 20 minutes.

Hm, so if I use Sublime as a capture app, it means once a day I copy from here to Substack. And maybe any “aha’s” go straight here and skip handwriting. It reduces some busy work for sure.

Hello, Sublime! This is my first time logging into the mobile app. Wondering if there’s a value in going “direct to publish.” It forces me to write prose on the spot instead of leaving breadcrumbs. It forces me to write all day. I feel like I’ve had to learn this lesson 20 times. Maybe I’m dumb, or maybe it’s not a true conclusion. We’ll see. I als

My goal for Greek Orthodox Holy Week is to rapidly record my perceptions, make sense of them, build awareness of my negative virtues, and then shape postive virtues to live through over the next year.

Record every email, every thought, every interaction, every piece of content consumed. Make a full log so you can see the nooks of your day. How can you break procrastination if you can’t see it? Everything is allowed, just write it.

In 45 minutes, I was able to use AI to help me write a script to convert my monthly log pages into a CSV. Each log is now a row, and it includes the date and time (while stripping the time from the log). As long as you have a raw stream of data that is semi-consistently formatted, you can use code to melt and reform it into whatever form you need.

There’s power in fusing notes and tasks into one list, and then using symbols to delineate between the two. I intuitively worked out some format this morning, and it’s basically a bullet journal / interstitial journal.

There’s something “fresh” about having a full record of the day; it changes the nature of tasks. When something pops in your head (s