#note/new # Calendar (Time) *Time*-based notes such as periodic notes, journals, and logs belong in **Calendar** folder. ## Periodic notes My periodic notes about each day, week, month, quarter, and year across the time horizons of my life are located under *Calendar* since they are all *time*-based. Initially, I'm experimenting with just having all my periodic notes under Calendar/Notes to see how that works. ## Date folders I have been using a dated hierarchy of subfolders by year/month/day under `Calendar/Notes`. For example, my Day Note (`2024-09-08`) for 8 Sep 2024 is located within the folder path `2024/09/08`. It might be simpler to have fewer hierarchical date folders, but that means I will have a huge list of files that will continually grow longer and longer. Of course, I could break that up into a current year folder, with another one for all past years. ## Past & future There are at least 382 files for each year (365 days, 12 months, 4 quarters, and 1 year). So maybe having month and/or day subfolders might make sense after all. That would also allow all notes for each day to be grouped together in each day subfolder. I will experiment with this, and see what seems to make the most sense. ## Sections My periodic notes have a common structure that includes sections for Plan, Journal, Log, Health, and Review. These provide consistency across time horizons for each day, week, month, quarter, and year. ## Shortcuts I use *Shortcuts* to provide automated *Daily Startup* and *Capture* workflows. Daily Startup automatically creates my periodic notes every morning, and Capture allow me to quickly capture information from anywhere for recording in these sections. Sometimes, I will refactor paragraphs and lists from these sections into separate linked notes, so I have also provided options that allow storing directly in separate journal or log notes. ## Journals **Journal** notes with sparks, ideas, thoughts, questions, actions, freewriting, and reflections belong under *Calendar* because they are also time-based. These usually consist of text paragraphs of thoughts that might be captured or developed with freewriting or freetalking (voice dictation). ## Time horizons I can choose either a day journal where I might include an optional time stamp for a journal entry. Or I use a week journal where I also sections for each day's journal entries. I could also select a month, quarter, or year journal, if appropriate; in that case, I provide a date-time stamp. ## Logs I capture time-stamped logs on list items and groups of events, experiences, health, diabetes, exercise, meals, etc., which also belong under *Calendar* since they are time-based. These are simple Markdown lists: bullet (`-` ), numbered (`1.` ), or checkbox (`- [ ]`), and they can be indented (and folded) to identify list groups and dependencies. ## Metadata While writing my notes, it also helps to write about the notes with [[List Metadata|metadata]] on list items to identify my sparks, thoughts, ideas, questions, and actions. This allows me to record them for processing later without distracting my current focus. ## Views I use the metadata in a Log View with Dataview queries that help me process these items during my ARC Review practices for the day, week, and month. ## Review My **Review** section has highlights, accomplishments, challenges, and assessments. This provides an opportunity at the end of each time period to reflect on the past, and preview my future. The *plus-minus-next* approach seems to work fairly well. During my [[Day Review]], I review new notes in my Add (+) inbox, including any Focus folders; also, I process them during each [[Week Review]]. ## Plan The **Plan** section includes intentions, schedule, time-blocks, and focus activities for each time period. For example, this indicates what actions I want to get done today, and when I intend to do them. At the end of each time period during my review, I look ahead and plan what needs to be done next so that I'm prepared for the next day, week, month, quarter, or year. That preview gives me a jump start on my plan when I begin that subsequent periodic note.