From journals to inspirational notebooks, 22 ideas for documenting your day.

A motivational essay on recording that specifically suggests various recording methods.
Kim Shin-ji, a record nerd and author of “Weekdays Are Life Too” and “Seasonal Happiness,” shares her methods for recording fleeting moments and thoughts, from her daily personal diary to collecting fleeting moments and keeping records for writing and work.
The record this book talks about is collecting the present, the me of this moment.
It talks about how to become a recorder who notices the small joys that life brings and preserves the moments of my life.

The word record is made up of the characters ‘gi’ (記), meaning to record, and ‘rok’ (錄), meaning to record.
It's like writing and writing again.
The dictionary definition is 'to write down certain facts mainly for the purpose of leaving them for later.'
Or something like that.'
If you are someone who stands in the present and thinks about the 'future', you are probably someone who wants to send this moment to the future.
He knows that this is his only chance.
That the same moment will never come again.
So, if you want to remember, you have to write this moment down and send it to the future.
--- From "Prologue"

To admire the time that has accumulated in one place for a long time.
I admire the sincerity of one person who left that time to see.
I think the great thing about diaries is that they are here.
It's trivial for a day, but it becomes precious after a year.
--- p.22, from “Why We Must Record Every Day”

If there's a chance that someone who writes every day will become a slightly better person than someone who doesn't, it's not because the records they look back on later allow them to reflect on the past, but because they consistently spend time sitting face-to-face with themselves in the present.

--- p.46, from “Recording Things That Crossed My Mind Today”

If you've found even one good moment, you've lived well today.
It wasn't bad.
It won't compensate for the day's fatigue and heartache, but a day where you find even one good thing is better than a day where you don't.
After all, it is the small beauties of life that sustain us.
--- p.67, from “Picking up just one good moment a day.”

Build your own repeating history.
It's not that difficult.
The beginning of recording is to clearly define what to write and where to write it.

--- p.80, from “Recording My Own Repeating History”

After that, I thought I should write down the good words I heard.
Words are forgotten more easily than you think.
I thought it would be nice to have a record that I could look back on later and realize that I heard these words at the time, that I crossed a certain period of time by stepping on those words that someone said like stepping stones.
It could be a secret note that will gradually lift your spirits just by opening it on a difficult day.
--- p.107, from “Writing down the good words that touched me.”

Expand your records a little further and use them to describe what you're doing now, what you're going to do in the future, or what you want to do.
This applies even if you are not an editor, planner, or marketer.
(...) records are ultimately a repository of thoughts.
If you keep good records, it will be helpful in some way.
--- p.158, from “Inspirational Notes for Future Work”

Memories of being loved keep us alive.
That is a truth that does not change no matter how much time passes.
--- p.176, from “Beautiful Diaries Written for Someone”

No matter what kind of record you start, 'any record that accumulates time is bound to become precious.'
Life is a story that happens to only one person.

--- p.211, from 「Epilogue」