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This is the low-friction diary system. The point is not beautiful writing. The point is to give future Will a breadcrumb trail: what happened, what hurt, what helped, what mattered, and what tiny next step is available.

Start here

Terminal wizard: run diary-wizard for a guided form.
Guide: Diary/Diary Wizard.
Today's daily note: use Obsidian's Daily Note command.
Tiny entry: write only this if energy is low:

Today:
Feeling:
Need:
Next:

Daily rhythm: 3 minutes

Use Templates/Diary Daily when you want a dedicated diary entry, or the diary section in Templates/Daily Note.

Minimum viable entry:

What happened?
What did I feel?
What is one tiny next step?

Optional add-ons:

What helped?
What drained me?
What do I not want to forget?
What am I avoiding?

Weekly rhythm: 10 minutes

Use Templates/Diary Weekly Review once a week.

Questions:

What kept showing up?
What gave me energy?
What drained me?
What did I avoid?
What helped even a little?
What is one adjustment for next week?

Atlas help

If you ask Atlas to review diary patterns, the useful output should be gentle and concrete:

recurring triggers
recurring helpers
avoided areas
sleep/mood/energy patterns
tiny-step recommendations
durable context worth promoting into Atlas/Personal Context/README

Do not promote raw diary text into Hermes memory. Keep the raw diary in Obsidian; save only stable preferences or durable facts.

Folders

Diary/Entries: longer dated entries when daily notes are not enough.
Diary/Weekly Reviews: weekly reflections.
Diary/Atlas Reflections: optional Atlas summaries/pattern notes.

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