24 Research Journal
The raw, dated account of the research process — what was tried, in what order, and why — as opposed to experiments/ (structured results) or research-platform/findings/ (polished write-ups). Entries are allowed to be messy and wrong in the moment; that’s the point of keeping a journal instead of only publishing conclusions.
24.1 How to write an entry
Add a file under the current year, journal/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD.md. No fixed template, but a useful entry usually says:
- what you worked on and why (link the research question it bears on, if any),
- what happened — including partial/negative results,
- what you’d do differently next time, or what’s now an open question.
If something clearly failed or was abandoned, add a line to dead-ends.md with a pointer back to the entry — dead ends are easy to forget and expensive to re-discover.
If something generalizes beyond the specific entry — a modeling mistake worth not repeating, a data quirk that will bite again — add it to lessons-learned.md.
24.2 Entries
24.2.1 2026
- 2026-08-03 — repository restructured around a research-notebook shape (this journal included).