# personal journal (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover personal journal. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why I Put Everything on My Calendar](https://velprium.com/blog/why-i-put-everything-on-my-calendar) _2026-08-07 · Velprium Blog_ We treat the calendar as a place for future appointments. But almost everything we record happens at a time — so why do we only put meetings on it? Here's why I started recording my whole day on one calendar. ## [How to Use Google Calendar as a Personal Journal — and Actually Learn From It](https://velprium.com/blog/google-calendar-personal-journal) _2026-07-30 · Velprium Blog_ Learn how to use Google Calendar as a personal journal, record what actually happened, and add structured properties for better weekly reviews. ## [A Digital Bullet Journal Should Live on Your Calendar](https://velprium.com/blog/a-digital-bullet-journal-should-live-on-your-calendar) _2026-07-28 · Velprium Blog_ Most people rebuild their bullet journal inside Notion or a notes app and quietly abandon it. The problem isn't discipline — it's that a day gets copied into five places. Here's why the center of a digital bullet journal should be time, not a note. ## [Documents Became Databases. Calendars Remained Timetables.](https://velprium.com/blog/documents-became-databases-calendars-stayed-timetables) _2026-07-24 · Velprium Blog_ Document apps evolved into databases with blocks, properties, relations, and views. Calendars got faster at coordinating — but the data model behind an event barely changed. Here's why that gap matters now that AI is starting to manage our time. ## [The Only Record System I Never Quit Is My Calendar](https://velprium.com/blog/your-calendar-is-a-time-based-index) _2026-07-23 · Velprium Blog_ In ten years I quit every journal, note app, and habit tracker I tried. The one system that survived was my calendar — because keeping it up isn't optional. Here's how I turned it into the index for my whole life. ## [How I Turn My Calendar Into a Daily Journal](https://velprium.com/blog/how-i-turn-my-calendar-into-a-daily-journal) _2026-07-22 · Velprium Blog_ I could never keep a journal, but I update my calendar every single day. Here's the three-step method I use to turn a plain calendar into a daily journal — without writing the day twice. ## [Your Schedule Is More Complex Than Your Calendar Makes It Look](https://velprium.com/blog/your-schedule-is-more-complex-than-your-calendar) _2026-07-21 · Velprium Blog_ In a calendar, every event is the same rectangle. But a fixed client meeting, movable deep work, and a flexible workout are nothing alike. Here's why an AI can't manage your time until it understands the difference. ## [Your Calendar Is Already the Best Journal You Own — You Just Never Read It](https://velprium.com/blog/your-calendar-is-already-a-journal) _2026-07-20 · Velprium Blog_ You don't need a new time tracking app. Your calendar already holds months of data about where your time went. Here's how to actually read it — and run a weekly review that sticks. ## [Your calendar is a database with only two columns](https://velprium.com/blog/your-calendar-is-a-two-column-database) _2026-07-19 · Velprium Blog_ Your calendar is already a time database — but its schema is just two fields: time and title. Learn how custom properties turn calendar events into structured records for work and life. ## [DSM 5 F10.XX](/2026-02-25-dsm-5-f10-xx/) _2026-02-25 · Dani · My Octant_ 3 Years in Remission - 3 Years without a drop and many more hence to come. This post contains remediated, curated, and heavily edited handwritten, dictated, and typed, personal journal entries ranging from February 2023 to February 2026. Sparked by a conversation with a friend over coffee - I started questioning why I’ve never shared... ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/q2KmBODQvIDi) _2026-02-25 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [In and Out Wrapped](/2025-12-09-in-out-wrapped/) _2025-12-09 · Dani · My Octant_ 2025 in Review - Reflecting on how intention setting worked for me this year. This post contains a remediated, curated, and heavily edited handwritten, personal journal entry from October of 2024. What is in a home? How can I succinctly answer that? Is it the things that led me here? Is it the things... ## [Rejoining Insta](/2025-11-11-rejoining-insta/) _2025-11-11 · Dani · My Octant_ Returning after almost a year - Thankfully because of how I shuttered my old Insta my username was free again to be reclaimed. This essay contains a collection of remediated, curated, and heavily edited handwritten, typed, and dictated personal journal entries dating between November of 2024 and November of 2025. Quoted entries that only have grammar,... ## [My Almost Year Without Social Media](/2025-11-08-year-without-socials/) _2025-11-08 · Dani · My Octant_ Why I went 11 months without social media - Why did I delete my socials? In a Short - Political Climate The uncertainty and looming dread I had felt leading into and within January 2025, was a large motivation for my separation from social media with a specific emphasis on Meta products. Back in January during the events of... ## [Home Assistant Lovelace Custom Cards How-to](/2024-12-01-how-to-reminder-cards/) _2024-12-01 · Dani · My Octant_ Reset on Click Day Counter Reminder Cards How To - This is an excerpt from this reddit post I made from my now deleted account Each Bubble Needs: A Date Time Helper An Automation to allow resetting The actual Lovelace Display card Making the Helpers: Navigate to the helper GUI configurator /config/helpers Select Date and/or Time from the helper creation...