# Hourglass Diaries
> A day is made of more than tasks completed. It is also made of minutes spent asking, waiting, editing, switching tools, working with other people, and deciding what to do next.

## Entries
- [How to Keep a Seven-Day Time Diary of AI Tool Use](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/seven-day-ai-time-diary-template/): A seven-day time diary records AI-related activities in consistent time intervals, including the task, tool, duration, and surrounding context.
- [Why Memory Misjudges AI Use: Time Diaries Versus Recall](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/ai-use-diary-versus-memory/): Memory can provide a useful estimate of AI tool use, but it often loses the precise timing, duration, and context needed for a dependable account of an.
- [Tagging Without Judging: How to Design Neutral Diary Categories](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/designing-neutral-time-diary-categories/): Good diary categories describe observable activities, tasks, and contexts without assigning moral or performance judgments.
- [What One Time Diary Can Tell You: Anecdote, Sample and Pattern](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/single-diary-anecdote-sample-pattern/): One time diary can describe how a particular person allocates time during a particular recording period.
- [Reading an Editors' Diary Week: Mornings, Meetings and AI Tool Use](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/editors-diary-week-mornings-meetings-tools/): An editors' diary week can show where AI tools appear within a daily schedule, including the relationship between morning work, meetings and transitions.
- [Chat, Audio and Short Film in One Evening: Categorizing AI Tool Use](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/chat-audio-film-ai-diary-categories/): When one platform combines text chat, narrated audio and short films, a personal time diary should distinguish the format being used from the broader purpose.

## About
- [About Hourglass Diaries](https://hourglass-diaries.pages.dev/about/): what the site covers and how entries are made

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