The self-reference effect: you remember what feels like you
The self-reference effect explains why some days stick. It is not a memory aid you switch on. It is a filter, always running, deciding what counts as you.
deariary blog
July 2026
6 articles from July 2026.
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Your YouTube watch history is a diary you have been keeping without knowing
Your YouTube video watch history records the tutorials, the music, and the 2am rabbit holes. It is the most honest diary you own. Here is how to keep it.
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Plex scrobble recipe: Plex to Trakt to deariary
deariary has no native Plex integration. Your Plex watch history can still flow into your diary today, by scrobbling Plex plays to Trakt and connecting Trakt to deariary.
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What your completed Todoist tasks say about your day
Your completed Todoist tasks are a behavioral profile of how you spent yourself. Read as a flat list they read flat. Read as a day they read differently.
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Weekend diary recipe: Trakt, Swarm, and Bluesky
Three integrations capture a weekend from three angles: where you went, what you watched, and what you said about it. The result is a weekend diary that writes itself.
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Grid Diary vs deariary: nine prompts vs zero prompts
Grid Diary asks you nine questions to fill in. deariary writes the entry from your data. Two answers to the blank-page problem, opposite directions.