Thank you for being The One to bring up Org Mode. I've also been returning to Org Mode after a year or so of bullet journaling in a Moleskine (yes, with a fount

Thank you for being The One to bring up Org Mode. I've also been returning to Org Mode after a year or so of bullet journaling in a Moleskine (yes, with a fountain pen). My procedure of late is: - keyboard shortcut + a snippet of Emacs Lisp to create today's journal entry (e.g. 2019-09-01.org) in a "journal" subdirectory; - YASnippet to fill out a daily journal template with two-column LaTeX export styling the way I want; - Write down any dreams I remember in the morning; - Write down a simple to-do list in an Org table, moving items up and down; rather than TODO states, I put a space between items already done and those remaining; if I don't get everything done, I can strikethrough the item to indicate that; - Find and copy or type in a quote or a poem for the day (usually at the end of the day); - Occasionally, paste in a small snippet of code that I wrote or saw that I liked; - Any interesting things that happened or felt noteworthy that day. Finally, and this is perhaps one of the more important steps: - export as LaTeX to PDF, then print, three-hole punch, and stick it in a binder on my desk. The format and what I put in changes daily and it's kind of neat to see that unfold in the printouts. I find that having the printed journal makes the older entries (each a single page so far) a pleasure to look over and gives me a sense of what my time has been like recently. If it was just on the computer I probably wouldn't ever look at it again, and I wanted something that gave me easy access to the feelings of the recent days that otherwise seem to disappear completely.