Picard - my Ship's Log - part 1

What is the problem this solves?

• It is hard to remember where things go
• Any organisational system inevitably becomes too complicated and takes too much time if we structure things too much up front
• A lack of customisation and inflexible tools do not meet our requirements

What is this solution?

• use daily notes to log everything
• log with flexible tools and just enough structure with categories that work for the important elements in your life
• figure out an automatic technique and use tools for aggregating or surfacing the information in ways that work for you

An example

I use a setup including:

• Obsidian
• The Obsidian Quickadd Plugin
• Some structure around things I want to log (my inspiration is The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocols - Jocko Willink)

An example daily note capturing items I log with the QuickAdd plugin looks something like the below.

My setup then includes:

• Obsidian pages specifically designed to aggregate and surface what I have logged across my daily notes through time
• Obsidian Dataview queries provide the querying capability
• A Media Log page tracking all the TV and films I have watched
• A Discoveries Log page tracking discoveries I make over time

A screenshot of part of my Discoveries Log page is below.