Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: method
- Topics: productivity, writing
A daily note practice for capturing ephemera, reflections, and scratch work — an intentional dumping ground that feeds into evergreen notes.
Daily working log
Each day, I start a note titled with that day’s date; e.g. 2022-12-03.
It captures ephemera throughout the day: reflections, scratch work, etc. It’s an intentional dumping ground, a release valve so that there’s always “a place to put that thing.”
In the Taxonomy of note types, this is the lowest-fidelity layer, ephemeral by design. But as scratch thoughts look like they might have legs, they get extracted into a note in my writing inbox (A writing inbox for transient and incomplete notes). Sometimes I’ll use the daily working log as a drafting space, and I can extract sections roughly-as-is into Evergreen notes.
Inspiration: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z28QkpK3vRKQTacjFDfGYBhCXHqHuVWJzny9