I might be imagining a golden age, but I feel like once upon a time I accumulated notes like this more.
Then came Twitter and with that came a lightning-fast way to blurt things from my brain in whatever state they arrived.
But Twitter has no edit button and no way to further an idea other than through tweet-storms and threads that I think would make me look like a madman.
Here, though, I can write "thinking about FOO" in the day's journal and then come back to that thing as I have further thoughts because my brain is a pen plotter drawing unoptimized paths.
Twitter is the Dalek screaming at you engage, engage