This is a set of thought streams, where I add thoughts semi-serially, based on which day I thought them. By “semi-serial”, I mean that thoughts are “serialised” based on date, but not serial within the date. For example, thoughts from Sat 25-04-2026 would appear above thoughts from Fri 24-04-2026, but within a given day, thoughts from earlier (e.g. morning) may appear above thoughts from later (e.g. evening).
Everything is in reverse chronological order (with the most recent thing appearing at the top of the stream).
Why have a semi-serial thought stream?
There are 2 sub-questions embedded in this question: (1) why have a thought stream and (2) why should it be semi-serial?
To address (1): I think it’s useful to see how thoughts emerge over time because it allows minds (including the origin/thinking mind) to understand where/when different thoughts emerged in the context of surrounding thoughts, and things like life or world events/occurrences (e.g. a birthday, or some political uproar), or inputs (e.g. reading a particular article or listening to a particular podcast). It’s also useful for tracking how a worldview evolves and develops over time, based on these inputs / (life or world) events. Additionally, I’ve found it helpful to have a singular place of expression which I default to writing on. It reduces mental friction toward outputting thoughts, because I don’t have to consider/determine/decide what note to add a thought to before writing it - I just write on the stream, in the knowing that eventually, I’ll come back to it and slot it into the appropriate note(s). This potential plurality (of noteS) is another reason I find serial streams useful: the same thought might be relevant to multiple other thoughts (e.g. the big root notes, representing core concepts in my worldview), and so it’s useful to know that all thoughts are recorded/stored in the same place, and I don’t have to snoop around various notes to find thoughts that I’ve realised are also relevant elsewhere.
Ideally, mindware would allow minds to e.g. easily create a thought, have this automatically timestamped (and inserted into the serial stream), and then have the ability to slot it into various other “bigger” / more substantial thoughts (representing particular objects in the worldview) as compost, which can be refined, and more convergent insights can be grown from. However, as far as I’m aware, there does not yet exist any mindware to fully accommodate this, so I’m experimenting with how to achieve the next best thing in the meantime.
And for now, this takes the form of this stream, which I’ve decided to make semi-serial for now because (to address sub-question (2)) I think the most important denomination/unit of time to capture is day-based, as the thoughts I think within a day are relatively similar, but between days are relatively different. Also, it means I can organise thoughts into broader “themes” (e.g. under “umbrella” notes that they relate to) in a parallel fashion throughout the day, rather than having a series of relatively distinct thoughts which are not grouped by relevance. Yeah - basically, the “parallelisation” within a particular day allows for the grouping of thoughts by relevance. I’ve so far found that not much can be gained from maximally “serialising” (i.e., having thoughts in 100% chronological order, including within days).
How the stream is organised
For now, I’ll have a page for each month, and within that, headings for each day in the format Sat 25-04-2026. Everything reverse chronological, except within days. Days/date headings appear as wikilinks (purple clickable links) which don’t actually link to a note - I just put them as wikilinks so they stand out more.
It’s probably easier to see what I mean by just diving into the stream(s).
Stream(s)
The monthly (sub-)streams directly below are in the bullet-point format used in the Pre-Psychosis stream. Under each day heading, there are bullet points, each representing an object (a thing in my worldview), which itself is represented by a note, which is linked to. Beneath each linked-to note are sub- bullet points related to that note (and the object it represents).
- April-2026 (when I started this stream)
- May-2026
These streams take whatever format they take. TBD.
- (No stream for June 2026)
- July-2026