[btrettel]

I'm not the author of the linked webpage, but here are some of the things I find valuable about my Markdown daily log:

- I don't have to rely on my possibly faulty memory about the details of past events. My logs often have considerably more detail than I remember over a year later, and I have already identified one instance where what I remembered was inconsistent with an email (not one of my logs, to be clear) I wrote at the time. I trust the email more than my memory.

- I can answer when something happened with full-text search.

- I can read through the logs chronologically to see the evolution of my thinking on many topics.

When I tell others about my daily log a lot of people seem interested in possible mental health benefits. I can say that I don't see any mental health benefits in my case. I don't write a gratitude journal or anything like that, as such things always seemed forced to me. I focus mostly on summarizing what happened in the day and what I'm thinking about that day.