I capture and document information in various formats. Here’s a list of each journal type I create, along with its purpose and the tools I use.

• ▾Thoughts / Statuses 11.1
  • ▾Purpose
    • ▾Explore ideas in a semi-public but low-pressure format.
    • ▾Easy to do thinking. Thoughtstorming. Thinking out loud.
  • ▾Tools
    • ▾Mastodon as a backend.
    • ▾Mona for storing and organizing thoughts in threads.
    • ▾I have to bookmark threads for easy finding and appending new ideas. Mostly kept append-only, to see the whole thought formation over time.
  • ▾Ideas
    • ▾ Maybe I should start these threads as “Thinking about XYZ…”.
• ▾Interstitial journal
  • ▾Purpose
    • ▾Maintain a journal to document OmniFocus projects, engage in sensemaking, and quickly outline project plans. These plans are typically extracted and stored in dedicated TaskPaper or Bike files.
  • ▾Tools
    • ▾Managed in TaskPaper.
• ▾Private journal entries
  • ▾Purpose
    • ▾Document my daily life, personal reflections, or private thoughts that I want to keep track of and also remind myself about.
  • ▾Tools
    • ▾Day One / Journal.app for storing and reviewing them. Occasionally, I might draw insights from these entries that can turn into more public or structured notes.
• ▾Note Development / Zettelkasten
  • ▾Purpose
    • ▾Write daily notes about articles I read.
    • ▾Build a permanent, networked knowledge base or “building blocks” of my thinking.
    • ▾A resource to consult for ideas, forming the “backbone” of my knowledge.
  • ▾Tools
    • ▾The Archive for browsing and searching notes.
    • ▾iA Writer for writing entries.
    • ▾Cursor for interacting with the Zettelkasten as a conversational partner.
    • ▾Presented as static website at zettelkasten.decoding.io.
• ▾Blog Posts / Articles
  • ▾Purpose
    • ▾Public-facing content—share refined ideas with an external audience. May start as a collection of Zettelkasten notes or microblog threads, refined into an organized piece.
  • ▾Tools
    • ▾Blogging with Bike: Bike outlines for quick and raw posts.
    • ▾iA Writer for writing posts combined from notes found in my Zettelkasten.
      • ▾Using iA Writer as an end-to-end writing system
    • ▾MarsEdit for general posting and editing.
    • ▾Posts are presented on my blog, POSSEd into other microblogging systems as automatic statuses.

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