The Jotti journal

Ideas for noticing more of your life.

Notes on memory, habits, ideas, and the ways a personal record can change what you notice.

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Change is often too small to feel today and too gradual to remember accurately later.

Skip the appointment with the blank page. Write the thought while it is alive, then return to the day.

An uncaptured idea must keep asking to be remembered. A captured one is free to become something.

Your last week is both a fairer opponent and a much more useful baseline than a stranger’s best day.

Sketches, questions, machines, errands, and observations shared the page because curiosity arrived mixed together.

His Dymaxion Chronofile grew into a vast record that taught him to see himself from the outside.