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Recent Examples of daybookFor others, a journal may double as a daybook, calendar, and catch-all for thoughts jotted down during a meeting or while waiting to pick up the kids at school.—
Kate Donovan,
Martha Stewart,
2 Feb. 2026 Pruitt’s remarks at the meeting were listed on his public schedule and described as being open to the press on a federal daybook of events.—Washington Post,
22 May 2018
Heti took years’ worth of personal diaries, got a computer to arrange the sentences in alphabetical order, and then, without tampering with the order, winnowed the material to the length of a novella.
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The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Nov. 2026
Everyone had to fill out daily sleep diaries and were fitted with glucose monitors and research-level wrist actigraphs to track sleep better than self-reporting can.