Up: [[Introspective Writing]] Related: [[Patterns in Life Writing]] Created: 2026-02-22 Indexing your journals is great for finding what you are looking for. Taking a few pages in an analog journal for an index or filling in properties and selecting tags in your vault makes a lot of sense. [Jamie Rubin](https://jamierubin.net/2021/09/13/how-i-index-my-journals/) has a good article where she talks about topical indexing and also line-a-day indexing for each month. All of this is valuable, but it doesn’t go far enough, at least not for me. Indexing the motifs in my dreams alone would give me easily a hundred or more possibilities, but not all of them are fruitful. Plus, the chances are better than okay that unless I have a taxonomy, I’m going to end up referring to the same motif with multiple terms. There’s nothing new about this, tagging taxonomies have been around forever. So I want a taxonomy, but rather than just indexing everything that might have a remote possibility of future meaning, I’m at a point in my life where I want to start bringing the threads of my experiences and interests together into a series of coherent narratives. I think it will be helpful to look at [[Patterns in Life Writing]] others have used and build my taxonomy from there.