Many unexpected things are obvious in retrospect, but were ignorable as random one-offs or coincidences at the time. The only defense I have found against this is writing more things down. Helps encourage yourself to keep an eye out for related signs, or catch something on the second repetition instead of the tenth.
You can't convince yourself it's a coincidence five times in a row when you keep writing the same thing down.
Your notes don't need to be organized, but searchable is a must so you can sanity check yourself. With no other criteria to go by, best practice is to keep it simple, short, and easy. Throw in dates of course.
By definition there's not a clear-cut rule for what's worth writing down, but you gain an intuition for it over time. I catch myself going "huh, that's odd", and use that as a signal it's worth writing down.
Something empty in the fridge I could have sworn was half full, being contacted out of the blue, abnormally high or low amounts of almost anything. I've been hunting down a memory leak on my computer for the last month, which started out from writing down what I was doing when my computer froze for no apparent reason.
It's incredibly unreliable compared to something like system logs, but unreliable is better than nothing at all.
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Nightly Notes
Couldn't think of a better title.
Busy today, no time for the notes. Writing was less intrusive than I thought it would be, given the hectic schedule.
More of the same tomorrow as always.
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