Do you mind me asking what type of system do you use for keeping these notes, the 30mb text corpus with conversations and journaling? Are you using txt, an app like Logseq? I flip flop between apps for this sort of thing and then annoyingly the building of a "system" sucks up my time rather than writing and logging and reflecting. It's a struggle for me any advice would be much appreciated :)

Thanks for asking! I have become an infinitely better human and friend since starting.

I used Roam, but would like to migrate to Logseq for reasons of privacy and self-sovereignty :)

My most helpful meta tags are:

[[People I Meet]] for quick descriptions of everyone I meet, even if they don't get their own page

[[versus]] for dualities I notice and want to track, like [[expansion vs collapse]] [[away vs toward]] [[linear vs cloud narrative]] etc

[["as" metaphors]] metaphors that return a lot, like [[religion as seed]] or [[god as hologram]] or [[empathy as gravity]] etc

[[reminds me of]] which I sometimes use to make connection, but often just crossed

[[self comment]] for tracking my comments around the internet

[[new tag]] for tracking when a significant new tag occurs to me for first time

[[methinks]] (for my inline thoughts on articles whose content I paste into a page, which I do for most things I read, so I can always find the content that shapes me, and my own thoughts/highlights in relation to that)

[[toread]] [[towatch]] for books and films/video

[[tears]] [[fears]] [[fave snacks]] [[star sign]] [[faves]] and a "family" bullet for things that are important in their family life.

And every day, my optional top-level bullets are: todos, finds, logs, thoughts (pretty much everything fits under these, and most under "logs", because I like to track context of where I was, who I was with)

I started just using logs every day to keep track of things I did, because during pandemic I felt like I was doing nothing at all every day except being depressed. Everything grew from that :)