Your busiest days vanish first
The days you accomplished the most are the ones you remember the least. Cognitive load explains why.
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I stopped journaling. Then my diary started writing itself.
I quit journaling for good. Months later, a diary appeared that covered every day I had given up on. Here is what that felt like.
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I don't do anything interesting enough to keep a diary
The most vivid diary entries come from ordinary days. You do not need an interesting life to have a diary worth reading.
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A diary has no ROI. That is exactly why it matters.
Journaling resists measurement. That resistance is the source of its value, not a flaw to engineer away.
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A coding journal that writes itself from your commits
Brag docs, TILs, and dev journals all die the same way. deariary builds a coding journal from your commits, PRs, and reviews instead.
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Turn your Google Calendar into a journal
Your calendar already tracks your days. Here's how to turn that schedule into a journal worth re-reading.
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Day One made me love journaling. Then life got busy.
A love letter to Day One, the journal app that started it all, and why we needed something that could keep going when we couldn't.
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I can't remember what I did yesterday
Yesterday was a full day. You lived every hour of it. Try describing it now.
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Privacy-first diary generation
An automatic diary needs your data to work. Here is how deariary handles that responsibility.
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A diary is not for today
You will become someone else. A diary is the only way that person can meet who you are right now.
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The case for effortless journaling
Every recording domain eventually automates. Personal diaries are simply the last to catch up.
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Re-reading your diary three months later
A diary is not for the day you write it. It is for the morning you open it again and feel the whole day return.
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The forgetting problem: why most days disappear
Most of your life will be forgotten. Not the big moments, the ordinary ones. Here is why, and what you can do about it.
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The diary I couldn't keep
Why I built deariary, and what LLMs actually do for a diary.