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# Research Journal Entry Template
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Append this structure to the Research Journal note in Librarian. Each day gets a `## YYYY-MM-DD` heading. Each session within a day gets a `### HH:MM` subheading.
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---
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```
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## YYYY-MM-DD
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### HH:MM — [Short Descriptive Title]
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**Goal:** [What you set out to do this session]
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**Searched:**
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- [Collection/source] — [pages/range covered] — [found X / nothing relevant]
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- [Collection/source] — [pages/range covered] — [result]
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**Found:**
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- [Key finding] — [[Source Note Title]]
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- [Key finding] — [[Source Note Title]]
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**Not Found (Negative Evidence):**
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- [Expected to find X in Y but did not] — [[Source Note Title]]
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**New Leads:**
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- [Lead discovered that warrants follow-up]
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**Target List Updates:**
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- Added [Name] — [reason, source where identified]
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- Added [Name] — [reason]
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**Notes:**
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[Unstructured space. Hunches, observations, patterns noticed, things that don't fit
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elsewhere but shouldn't be lost. "I noticed that..." and "I wonder if..." belong here.
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Theory and supposition live here, not on source or person notes.]
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**Open Questions:**
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- [question] [Specific unanswered question from this session]
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**Tasks:**
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- [todo] [Specific next action from this session]
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**Session Close:**
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- Unfinished: [What was in progress when session ended]
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- Next: [What the next session should start with]
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- Blocking: [Access issues, missing records, need user input, or "None"]
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```
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---
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## Conventions
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- **[question]** and **[todo]** tags are searchable across the notebook. Use them consistently.
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- **Notes** section is deliberately unstructured. Don't skip it. Hunches recorded here have led to breakthroughs in this project.
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- **Session Close** is mandatory. It's the handoff to the next session, which may be a different Claude instance with no memory of this one.
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- **Negative evidence** is research data. "Searched and didn't find" is as important as "searched and found." Always record it.
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- Append entries within a day using `### HH:MM` subsections. New day = new `## YYYY-MM-DD`.
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