Documenting everything

I’m wondering what would happen if I had a totally low friction way to document everything that’s happening inside me as I realise it.

  • Help with staying conscious (present-moment awareness)
  • Get stuff documented and therefore out of my brain

Any time I notice I have a thought or feeling or whatever inside me, a frictionless way to get that thought stored outside of me.

(Thinking ahead: why would it need to be limited to times when I notice that the thought or feeling is there 😉)

In the short term, I’m picturing a one-click button I can press on my phone that records my voice, transcribes it, and adds it to some repository of these snippets—either appends it to a daily journalling/thoughts/feelings page on this site, or stores each one atomically and indexes them for searching / categorising, or something?

That final point is a separate but related one: how can we have a repository of discrete thoughts that are somehow linked / perusable / navigable. Related: Zettelkasten.

And then connect the dots between different people’s discrete thoughts?? Ooft, now we’re getting somewhere…

I think this could be really powerful. I also think technology/AI is pretty capable of facilitating this now.

🤔