Taste Journal

Outcome: the idea, prediction, or hindsight is appended to the user's journal with today's date, and the user returns to what they were doing. Over months, the journal lets the user see which of their judgments held, which is the only way the essay says taste is built.

Scope: long-horizon work only, per the repository's AGENTS.md. Near-term tasks do not go in.

The habit extends Carlini's ideas.txt: an append-only file of problems worth solving, read a few times a year so that every idea is judged twice with time between, and annotated in hindsight years later. This skill adds the predictions made at decisions so hindsight has something to compare against.

Locate the journal

Use the path the user names; otherwise ~/research/journal.md. If it does not exist, ask once before creating it. The journal is user data: never reformat, reorder, deduplicate, or edit past entries.

Three kinds of entry

Append at the end of the file. Never modify earlier text; corrections are new dated entries that name the earlier date.