My journal is the center of my work. It uses the day as the unit of intellectual work.

Here is the process I follow when journaling:

1. I review yesterday's journal entry, highlight original thoughts, and add the most important subject and the original thoughts from the entry to the index for the journal it belongs to (see index of my journals). Reviewing yesterday's journal entry also helps me remember what I'm currently thinking about.
2. I modify any related speculative outlines I'm maintaining and tracking through an index of speculative outlines.
3. I then open a new page and write today's date at the top. My goal is to fill up one to three pages of my journal through free writing.
4. I could either use yesterday's journal entry, 04 notes/seeds, or literature notes (especially when I'm internalizing an important reading material) as prompt for my journaling session.
5. I let myself play. I allow myself to be messy. I write streams of consciousness and develop ideas within them.

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