Journal
One’s own dated witness of reality. Structurally different from the other five, doing work the others cannot.
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2026-05-02 1 Saturday morning. Coffee, slow start. M. is still asleep. Walked over to Hudson Flea Market. I'd…
2026-05-03 1 Out to Locust Ridge Preserve with M. Cool morning, no wind, the kind of day where you can hear the…
2026-05-04 1 Back to work, and the week piled up before I'd had a second coffee. At lunch I went down to the…
2026-05-05 1 Driving home, I passed a small white house with a screened porch and a magnolia in the yard, and…
2026-05-06 1 Long day, late dinner, didn't open the laptop. Read one paragraph of William Rowe before bed and…
2026-05-07 1 Book club tonight. We were three weeks into Warranted Christian Belief and I had been waiting for…
2026-05-08 1 Imagine these are your notes. That's the point of the demo: to show you what it would feel like if…
2026-05-09 1 Saturday. The bins were still out from yesterday, and I finally went to fetch them. - Desmond -…
2026-05-17 1 Spent the afternoon in the garden. There is always one more place I think I can fit something. -…
2026-05-30 1 I have started keeping this journal as witness: when a line is about a particular thing, I link it,…
2026-06-13 1 I have been stepping over the bad porch step for weeks. Today I stopped pretending it would get…
2026-06-27 1 Went out after dinner when the pavement had begun to cool. I left the phone at home. - Desmond -…
2026-07-05 1 Out to the garden before coffee. I had been checking the same plant every morning all week. -…
Ontological Type System 1 The Ontological Type System is a method for personal knowledge management built on classical realism. Where most note systems organize by topic or task, OTS organizes by what kind of thing each note's referent actually is: a Journal entry, Person, Place, Work, Event, or Idea. There are six types, and only six. Everything fits. The result is a graph that grows by accretion rather than by hierarchy, and a vault that can hold a lifetime of thinking without ever needing to be reorganized.