A writing inbox for transient and incomplete notes

My morning writing practice

Taxonomy of note types

My daily routine

# Daily working log

Each day, I start a note titled with that day’s date; e.g. [[2020-03-12]]. 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 [[zTDjZQbKAT9pALtsk2HfePx:::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 ([[zUP4GuzPF33dWkZPiu9N6V5:::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 [[z5E5QawiXCMbtNtupvxeoEX:::Evergreen notes]].

For me, the important bits are:

1.  This is a space where I can put anything and feel zero friction. ([[zFuk9QqspNYHAgvzZc33ZGH:::Close open loops]])
2.  I feel a natural pressure to extract anything which wants to “outlive the day”—to move up the [[zTDjZQbKAT9pALtsk2HfePx:::Taxonomy of note types]].

Because the daily working log is also a live note, it also functions as a useful stub for [[zQtMfVrh8x4paaZv7MTp1Em:::Contextual backlinks]]: [[zL9q21MA7ygsKVfvn6FwBMq:::Backlinks can be used to implicitly define nodes in knowledge management systems]].






