Journal

Journals in OTS are first-person notes: daily reflections, dreams, drafts, letters to oneself. A Journal entry is something written by me, dated, and addressed (usually) to no one. If a note has the texture of a private record, it is a Journal.

Journal notes carry the standard fields plus a date and an optional author. The author defaults to absent: in the user’s own vault every Journal entry is theirs, so naming an author would be redundant. On this site the entries are unsigned for the same reason, so a reader can project into the narrator without bumping into a name.

The templated subtype Dream exists in OTS for dream journaling but is not used in this corpus.

The Journal notes in this corpus are a sample week, seven days, written in the first person to set a mood and to demonstrate that the philosophical concepts and the texture of an ordinary week share one vault. They are not separated from the Person and Idea and Place notes elsewhere on the site. That is the central claim of the system.

This page is itself a Journal note. Every other Journal has type: [[Journal]]. The backlinks panel on the right is the index.