[roedog]

I keep both an electronic diary and an engineering notebook in a physical lab notebook. I find both helpful to getting organized and developing my thoughts. I would never publish any of these. They are for my use only.

I format my diary very simply. The key for me is to not get distracted while I'm writing. I use two formats: a dated journal: a date and entries that follow. This works in any kind of editor. The other format I use is more subject based, with org-mode, and headings to split up topics.

org-mode has a tag feature, where you can add lists of tags to a header. I might try that for categorizing my entries for future sorting.