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Capture historical information with a journal

Capture historical information with a journal

15 January 2026

Even if mundane, a diary entry can trigger a memory in the same way a location, smell or piece of music can1 because Journals are an index to memories.

  • Henderson’s journaling prompts
  • Caldwell’s post-travel journaling prompts
  • Mander (2020), Keeping a Journal

Footnotes

  1. The Persistence of Memory – Jamie Todd Rubin ↩


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