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<h1><span class="material-symbols-outlined">join_right</span>How not to keep a dough journal. </h1>
Created: Wed, Apr 9th 2025
## Writing is thinking.
For the longest time I thought that keeping a dough journal was as easy as merely keeping your recipes in one place and perhaps writing a line or two about the outcome of that particular batch.
The first problem, and this is not exclusive to dough journaling, but any type of writing; is how are you going to make sure that you ever read those words again? Never mind write further words.
And if you are not reminded to read what you write, much less write further words on the subject, then you might as well be whistling in the wind, especially when your goal is to progress with any given endeavor.
In my opinion, the most common reason one might forget, or not even want, to go back to your data and update it is the fracturing of information that is a symptom of having many different ways you can keep it.
## Get your shit together!
Before my current system, I had things written all over the place from notebooks all over the place, notes in apps like scrivener and google keep. I had these notes on multiple different formats also. Altogether (ironic), I had **many** paper notebooks, a kindle scribe, an iPad, desktop computer and of course my phone. None of which were universally available for syncing across the different operating systems that I employed; windows, android, iOS and of course analog ink.
I went from having a single notebook, to a notebook with tabs. This “evolution” was in response to my need keep things seperate. I started to compartmentalize everything with sections for recipes, then those recipes becoming further “sorted” into sections. One for dough, one for sauce, completely separate tabs for different cuisines etc.
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Wed, Apr 9th @ 17:45 : Started the note, still have to organize the information without waffling on.