Having been a teacher for more than 25 years, I started a journal when I began quilting. I am now on my 7th year of quilting and I have spiral notebooks with information on all the quilts I have created. Takes maybe 10 minutes (if that long) each day with the date and the time creating along with a quick few lines of what I did or if I went shopping or went on line for something - mark that down so that I can still find where I bought something either on-line or at the local stores. Just a quick note each day about what I got finished with the date and time. Works for me....I can still go way back and find something important that I posted in my "Quilting Diary". (Diaries ;-)