[broscillator]

A few things: around once a month I log what I've been reading, listening to, watching, playing, and hanging out with.

For the daily journaling I try to focus on a quality of feelings and events, which we could call significance. It is pretty difficult to measure the significance that a thought or event will have in the future, but this process itself is helpful for journaling in the moment, and its most helpful for my future reader self.

That means that when I sit down to journal I no longer focus on the "material" conditions, when I do that it feels like I'm grasping at straws to capture some inner snapshot that by nature is not contained in any of those material factors.

Rather I try to focus on fragments of my inner narrative while being on the lookout for my own biases and mental patterns. It's almost like trying to guess which events for the day will resurface in your dreams, which stick to your subconscious rather than what you think is relevant in the moment that you sit down to write.

[iamjason89]

I appreciate your input and I like the monthly check-in items. Those are certainly relevant and would be useful looking back.

I'm often trying to influence my dreams and make things stick to my subconscious so they will surface up during them. I find your approach interesting.