log

Daily Log

Appends to ~/Obsidian/Journal/<YYYY-MM-DD>-log.md — the living record of the day between the morning brief (the plan) and the EOD summary (the consolidation). Append-only; never rewrite earlier entries. Read ~/Obsidian/CONVENTIONS.md (formatting) first if creating the file.

The three-file model

brief — the morning plan. Write-once, not babysat. Unchecked boxes are not failure.
log — the living record. This file. Accrues all day, captures the WHY in the moment.
summary — the EOD consolidation. /eod-summary reads this log and reconciles it against the brief.

The log exists so the WHY is captured when it happens, not reconstructed from memory at 6pm.

When to run

Manual — /log <free text>: an interstitial note (a decision made away from the keyboard, a hallway conversation, a blocker hit). Capture must be near-zero friction — one line, no ceremony.
Skill-exit (the spine) — another skill calls this as a mandatory closing step. A decision, a routed grill, a finished slice, a hit blocker — each appends one line on close. This is not optional; the documented failure mode is "wrap-up left to discretion never happens."
Brief item changes disposition — when a Work Item is done/blocked mid-session, append a line with the reason. That reason is the context the brief's checkbox can't hold and the material /ingest later wants.

Entry format

One timestamped bullet per entry. Get the time with date +%H:%M.

- HH:MM — <what happened>. <decision + why, if any>. [blocked: <what / on whom>] · [[Hub]]

Keep it to one scannable line. Link the project hub ([[Carpata]], [[Brushfeed]]) so the hub's backlinks become a timeline. Drop the [blocked: …] clause unless there's a blocker; drop the hub if there's no obvious one.

Procedure

Resolve today's date and the current time (date +%F, date +%H:%M).
If ~/Obsidian/Journal/<date>-log.md doesn't exist, create it from the template below (header links today's brief).
Append the entry under the existing entries, in time order. Never edit or reorder earlier lines.

Output

---
type: log
date: <YYYY-MM-DD>
---

# <YYYY-MM-DD> — Daily Log

Living record for the day. Plan: [[<YYYY-MM-DD>-brief]].

- 09:12 — Standup: Pete reset the week to the search dashboard. Carried the QA triage to await Michael. · [[Carpata]]
- 11:40 — Grill on embed-widget partial refunds → routed to a Notion proposal. Decided order-scoped session token. [blocked: scope, on Pete] · [[Carpata]]
- 14:05 — Filed confirmation statement. · [[Brushfeed]]

Confidentiality

Allowed at full fidelity (B-private): working context, decisions, rationale, and — unlike the old rule — file paths and commit SHAs. The log is private and encrypted; the connective detail (which file, which commit) is what makes it useful to future-you. These are stripped only when content is published outward (e.g. a Notion proposal), which is an audience rule, not a secrets rule.
Never written (Class A): live secrets, credentials, tokens, customer PII, customer financial data, verbatim proprietary source. Pseudonymise customer identity — [[MB-DealerGroup-1]] "large MB group, price-sensitive", never the legal entity, account number, or contact.

/morning-brief — the plan this log records against.
/eod-summary — consolidates this log at day's end (reconciles brief vs log, surfaces ingest material).
/ingest — durable learnings logged here can be filed into the Library.

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