Blog posts for November 2025

J.D Concepts 22 Blog
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I fall in to the YouTube or Reddit rabbit-holes sometimes. Not that they’re all bad all the time: I love watching a good music video with my headphones in. (That track is slow to start but seriously: watch it all the way. I dare you not to love it.)

But being sucked in to Shorts? Lazy-scrolling the Reddit feed? I know that’s not how I want to spend my time.

Well it turns out all of these things leave a trace, and you can use that trace to reveal your bad habits. I find this confronting. It causes me to change.

The trick is easy: just open your browser history, and search for the site you don’t love…

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I do this all day so I can remember what I did that day. I’m not senile yet. I just take medication that makes me forget stuff as a side effect.

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I understand the purging of files and stuff from my house. We keep buying crap we don’t need and I keep downloading everything I think is important. Especially because the government keeps deleting certain websites. My wife calls it being preparanoid.

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This sounds akin to the process of interstitial journalling (https://goodhartphotographyva.com/how-to-do-interstitial-journaling-with-or-without-notion-and-become-more-intentional-about-your-day/). Where do you put this in your Jdex?

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I think the eternal question here is whether you choose:

  1. A single central ‘journal’ note which references the rest of your system, or
  2. Many notes throughout your system, each of which has a ‘journal’ section.

I chose #2. If a JDex entry requires a ‘work log’, it gets a ## Work log header and the notes go there.

To find all ‘work logs’, I’d need to search across my system. But this isn’t my use-case. I don’t get to the end of the day and want to review all of my work logs. For me it’s more about returning to a specific item and picking up where I left off. In this case, the work-log-in-entry is more practical.