I would have sent an email to this blogger, but there's no contact information available on their blog (what's up with that?), so I'll respond to their post with my own.

Daily notes are useless. The value of a note is directly proportional to the number of times it is visited. That value is exponentiated each time a note is shared. Daily notes aren't revisited and they aren't shared.

First, daily notes are only useless if you don't have a system or workflow that makes use of them.

Second, they don't have to be shared to be useful. Depending on the system/workflow you have, they still have value. But the key is, you need to have system/workflow in the first place. Besides, unless the blog/website is setup like a daily journal, nobody is sharing their daily notes to the public. Typically what people would do is, write a bigger piece by expanding on ideas they wrote down in their daily notes.

Third, having dates attached to specific thoughts, ideas, events, etc... can be helpful when 6 months into the future, you're trying to understand why something is broken again. The dates give you context and clues as to what could have been happening back then. Sure, you can include all these notes into a single note, but then that means you already have a system/workflow that works for you.

I have one note that I visit all the time when I am working. It's a single Markdown file that I constantly update. It's essentially a to-do list that just helps me juggle all the things that I need to track. I call it focus.md

This is the system/workflow that works for you. This is why you don't feel the need to write daily notes.

Sidenote: I understand wanting to blog anonymously, I do it in this blog too. But not having contact information seems a bit odd. It's like you don't want your ideas challenged or even discussed.

#NoteTaking #Blogging