We often need consistency and time to build up habits that stick. I do everything including my own personal side projects in a work journal with time tracking

We often need consistency and time to build up habits that stick. I do everything including my own personal side projects in a work journal with time tracking for everything, but I had to work up to it being a natural part of my workflow. Here's my suggested path to gaining these habits: 1. Initially just try to make sure you are taking SOME notes at the start or end of every day - it doesn't matter where they are or how they are formatted just always take some notes at the start or end of your day 2. Once you have gotten into the habit of taking daily notes, start figuring what kinds of things you need notes for most often and take those before or during those activities - for example if you often find yourself having to look back at work tickets to retrieve some important information, start adding that information to your notes 3. By the time you are taking daily notes and adding things you know you need notes for you probably have a lot of notes so start worrying about structure and formatting - for example maybe you decide text files with homegrown markup aren't going to scale and you look into something like Obsidian with Markdown or Emacs with Org-mode 4. Repeat iterations of using your chosen note taking methods daily, building good habits, and improving your note taking system for you - if it feels like something is taking more time than it is worth change how you are doing it so it takes less time or just stop doing it