Journal & Reflections

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Evening prompt runs every evening · 8:30pm. Daily — one considered question, and nothing if you would rather not.
• Weekly lookback runs sundays · 6pm and keeps the Reflections dashboard fresh. Sundays — the week in a sentence, and the board brought up to date.
• What is captured lands in the Mood log record, which lives at Data/Mood Log in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The Reflections dashboard reads from the record and shows, at a glance: entries · how the months have felt · what your days turn on · evenings you wrote · themes lately · your week in a sentence · the log.

The wiring, in one breath: Journal capture writes to Mood log · Mood log shown by Reflections · Reflections kept fresh by Weekly lookback · Journal capture given to Diarist · Journal lookback given to Diarist · Diarist runs Evening prompt.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, records and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• What time the evening question arrives, or turning it off entirely and just writing when you feel like it.
• How searching the question is, and which subjects it should leave alone.
• Where entries are filed in your vault, and how the notes are named.
• Whether Sunday brings a lookback note at all, or just quietly updates the board.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. The first evening card asks something simple and open — what the day was like, what it turned on. There is nothing to set up first.
2. Answer in chat and it becomes a dated note in your vault, plus one line on the log: how the day felt, how much you had in the tank, what it was about.
3. It reads how the day felt from what you wrote rather than asking you to score yourself out of ten.
4. The board starts empty on purpose — there is no history to import, and the picture is the thing that accrues.
5. Say how you want to be asked — brief and practical, or something more searching — and it remembers.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

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