I use weekly notes as a hub for/summary of various themed logs (health, media, nature, dreams, etc.). The themed logs make it much easier to focus on each area. If I ever want a chronological list of everything together, the entry format makes that relatively easy.
The themed logs are in yearly files with weekly headings (except the current year of “health” which is weekly, compiled later into yearly). Each entry is a single paragraph with a timestamp, a tag to indicate the log type (in case I choose to reorganize), and special formatting to make them distinctive/searchable. If I need more than a paragraph I write a separate note which I summarize and link in the entry (or I lazily use a long paragraph with pilcrows [¶] to mark where paragraph divisions should go).
:: 2023-10-28 07:36 (Sat) , #logNature :: The western conifer seed bug (or similar; not the same one from the car because it had its back legs) thats been in in my room 3 days was walking across the floor. I put my hand down, it walked on, and I carried it outside. It stayed on my hand about 10 minutes until I finally managed to transfer it to the stair post. Took photos and video; got a couple of great photos from a rear-of-palm perspective.
In addition to the weekly themed logs, projects and media notes each contain a log divided into weekly headings. Those headings are embedded in the “werk” and “media” logs, and the entries are summarized under those logs’ headings in the weekly notes. (“Werk” is spelled that way to indicate it includes personal projects as well as paid work, and to distinguish it from my “world” category in autocompletion.)
Each weekly note has headings named after each themed log. Under each heading is a list that summarizes the log. A list item may cover 1 or many entries, and I don’t summarize the most routine stuff (like most health entries). After the list is a link to the week’s heading in the themed log.
At the top of each weekly note I put navigation links, a line specifying the days of the year/week/month, and a little something fun from the week — a photo, a small poem, a fortune-cookie fortune, etc.
Weekly notes also contain a scratchpad section for miscellaneous things I want to jot down. I try to empty that section by the end of the week, but if I don’t then at least that info is searchable.
The technical side of this is relatively simple. I use the community plugins Periodic Notes for the weekly notes and Calendar to adjust my locale for proper ISO 8601 week numbers, and the core plugin Templates for the themed logs and entries. At some point I plan to use Apple’s Shortcuts app to automatically create the various notes.