Daybook

This is the daybook.

It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.

I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.

Why is it called a Daybook? A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."

This is how I use my Daybook: I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead. I begin by identifying the major ... When I get home on Monday, I revisit my Daybook, consider what happened that day and what I want to happen the rest [...]

Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook."