- 7a
- 9a
- 12p
- 3p
- 6p
- 9p
A journal for your hours
Track the day in a language you invent.
Pick a letter, a color, a name. Log the hours in marks that mean something only to you. Writing them down is a pleasure. Looking back is too.
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01 — Your marks
Give the hours letters.
Walk can be W. Cook can be C. You choose the mark, the color, the word. One tap, and the hour is on the page.
In Timbal, each of these is a single key.
- 8aWwalk
- 9aRwrite
- 10aRwrite
Walked, wrote.
02 — The timeline
Read the day off the timeline.
The hours stay in a line, the way you logged them. Pull a stretch of it out, and it reads as a sentence.
Walked first.
Three hours of writing.
7
W
8
W
9
R
10
R
11
R
12
C
1
C
2
R
3
B
4
B
5
B
6
F
7
F
8
M
9
M
10
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Cooked at midday.
Friends, then making.
Tuesday, logged in the timeline. The lines are the parts worth reading twice.
03 — The spread
A month you can leaf through.
Thirty days, each one still in your marks. Pick a day. Read it the way you'd reread a journal.
04 — Margin notes
Insights, the way a journal offers them.
After a while the pages offer a noticing. Something true enough to underline, and pleasant enough to keep.
A week of pages, with one thing underlined.
05 — Near and far
Read it as a day. Or as a year.
Stand close and it's a sentence. Step back and the colors still know you. A week, a month, a year of pages you kept because you liked to.
Wwalk8a
Rwrite10a
Ccook1p
Ffriends6p
Mmake9p
Walked, wrote, cooked, saw friends, made something.
06 — Bird's eye
A bird's-eye view of your life, instantly, any time.
A system is a rule you set once: which marks belong together. After that, the hours you log already show how your life sits inside it.
Attention
How much of this time is consuming, and how much is creating?
Books are consuming. Write, cook, make, garden, and practice are creating.
Hours logged
12hConsuming
28hCreating
Share of the time in this system
- Consuming30%
- Creating70%
16h logged outside this system.
Company
How much of this time is with other people, and how much is solitude?
Friends are company. The other marks in this rule are solitude.
Hours logged
11hCompany
45hSolitude
Share of the time in this system
- Company20%
- Solitude80%
Same week of marks. Two rules. The hours stay put.
Today's page is open.
Invent a mark. Write an hour. Keep the day because you like looking at it.