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Wow. 25 years ago today I started my "mundane journal", a daily, high-level description of what I did that day (it lives on on a private corner of my website)

Here's the first day's entry, in the current version of the handcrafted UI.

The UI has a simple text search, a months based navigation, and a "what I did on this date across the years".

This marks my first daily kind of ritual attempt to record my time in the world. In early 1997 I started jotting more ad hoc notes (a "quote journal"/"common place book") on my Palm Pilot, at the tail end of 2000 I started by daily public blog. And in 2013 I started doing "One Second Everyday" video compilations. (Also later I tried to summarize some of it as highlevel timelines) These are all attempts to leave some wet footprints in the sand as I keep on marching through time.

I can't say I read old entries of the "mundane journal" much; I refer to it to check on some dates but I do most of my diary-like processing in public, on my blog and social media. Sometimes I'll throw in a copy and paste of some private correspondence I'd like to keep track of it but out of the public eye.

I'd recommend daily journaling as a practice to anyone, especially young people. You get old enough, entire decades slip by, and it's nice to have something to review. (Especially how my blog captures my a curated view of my photos; reviewing photos is a big part of what makes memories happen.)

But still, the daily entries are definitely "too much stuff" (which is the funny thing about time... it's too much and too little all at once.)