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title: 2026-04-15 15:15:07
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# 2026-04-15 15:15:07

## Considering the Role of Daily Notes in My Vault

I think daily notes still have a good use case for me,
but I'm not sure of the details.

What content should be daily and what timestamped
is a matter of the logic of links and tags.

Daily notes should only contain content _about that day_.

What's tricky about this is that

### What Daily Notes Should Contain

#### Tracking

```
Made recipe: [[granola]]
```

### What Daily Notes Should Not Contain

#### Synthesis

The utility of timestamped notes
is that, since the topic is self-contained,
the note's tags apply to all content within it.
Contrast with my previous system,
more like a traditional diary,
where synthesis for myriad topics
was grouped arbitrarily
by the day I happened to make a connection.

> Timestamped notes are still labeled by time like dailies,
> but they aren't grouped.

### What Daily Notes Could Contain

#### Objective Descriptions of Events

I see two options, neither attractive:

##### Option 1: Prose

because it would be very boring to write.

##### Option 2: Standard Terse Format