Daily Notes is a simple and beautiful TiddlyWiki edition by our nice friend Scott (here known as @TechLifeWeb).
It has a minimal design with a Home button on every tiddler and a nice set of tabs for Interstitial journaling, Todo list and Calendar.
Have a look at: Daily Notes — Interstitial Journaling (techlifeweb.com)
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Pretty neat Journaling tool. Any chance you can
You can still get it at https://web.archive.org/web/20250228040324/https://techlifeweb.com/tiddlywiki/dailynotes.html
For what it’s worth, I thought I would share one observation about using timestamp tools for interstitial journals.
I have found that if I treat the timestamps as beginnings of a task, I get frustrated because I often end up doing a number of other things (answer unexpected messages, doing tasks I suddenly remember while I am thinking about them, write comments like this one, etc) before finishing the stated task, and it looks like an inordinate amount of time doing that original task before finishing it and tackling the next task with a timestamp. I often rewrite the description and add the interrupting activities, so as to justify to myself the time the first task took.
Also frustrating, to me at least, is starting and timestamping one task, and then starting and timestamping those other tasks as they arise, forcing me to remember that there are tasks on the list that I started and are time stamped but that are not yet completed.
Also, when I remember something I have to do, it is often better to just do it than taking time to stop and add it and timestamp, which could potentially kill what little initiative I have for the task.
I found it mentally more consistent and rewarding to timestamp only the completion of every task. So I enter a “start the day” timestamp, then start every task with no timestamp, then regardless of whether I do it immediate or get sidetracked by other things, I record the finishing of each task as I finish it, so the recording is like a victory, the equivalent of scratching an item off my list.
This still gives me an accurate record of what I did that day, with finish times, but avoids the frustration of remembering unfinished tasks, rewriting a task description to account for other tasks I did alongside of it, or potentally cutting off motivation when it arises by stopping to add a new task.
Thoughts and comments on this are welcome!
I find timestamps help me with rebuilding my thought process when I’m doing interstitial journaling, but I don’t try them as the beginning of a task, but as the moment when a reflection starts. I would like to combine interstitial journaling with checklist, but seems that @Mohammad’s Kara has not (yet) support for it. In that way the timestamp can mark the initiation of a task and the checklist just mark the completion of its subtasks. Maybe when a checkbox is crossed, a timestamp could be added, but I will be fine with just timestamps for entries and checklists for subentries.
