[macintux]

> I want to emphasize that the coding journal is not a todo file or code comment. It contains things I have to think about not things I have to do.

The author mentions that a lot of these will eventually end up in comments or elsewhere, but it’s nice to capture random thoughts without adding the friction of deciding where it should land, what priority the ticket should be, etc, etc is quite nice.

[all2]

This matches the spirit of Getting Things Done's "Inbox" quite well. The goal is to minimize friction for recording thoughts/ideas/todos that come into your head. You write them down and into the Inbox they go, to be sorted/dealt with at some later time.

[onlypositive]

Or never.

I write notes throughout the day. Hardly ever search back in it. It's just to let me stop thinking about thing X while I'm working on thing Y. If X is important it'll come up again or show up in a ticket somewhere.