One entry a day, in your own words, saying what the system did and what you decided. Over twenty days it becomes the record of how your identity's language was made.
log.md in your repoA generative system is made of decisions, and most of them are forgotten by the next morning. The log keeps them.
It is the evidence that you, through your identity, authored the system: what Codex proposed, what you kept, and the reason your identity would choose one rule over another. At the end of the month it becomes the process section of your final submission, so nothing has to be reconstructed in the last week.
Four fields, every day, in this order.
What changed in the system today. Name the rule, the parameter or the file, not just "worked on code".
One choice you made, and why your identity would make it. This is the most important line.
One output from today, saved as log/day-07.png. A photo of a test or a plot counts.
One open question to start tomorrow with. If nothing is stuck, write what you are least sure of.
## Day 07 · Tue 1 Dec **Did:** **Decided:** **Image:** log/day-07.png **Stuck:**
Write it yourself. You can ask Codex what changed in the repo today to jog your memory, but the Decided line has to be yours, in a sentence you could defend at critique.
The log sits in the same folder as your system, so you write it where you work.
Add the day's entry during pin-up, then commit with the message log: day 07. The commit history then shows when each entry was written.
At the end of pin-up, paste the same entry into the daily form. That is how the facilitator reads all twenty.
The link is pinned in the studio WhatsApp group. Sign in with your @learner.manipal.edu account so your name is recorded.
Copy the text straight from log.md. Don't rewrite it for the form.
The same file as log/day-NN.png.
If you miss a day, file it the next morning, dated for the day it describes. Don't save up a week and write it all at once; that record is worth less to you.
Only you and the facilitator see form entries. Three missing days in a row means a conversation, not a penalty.
On critique Fridays, bring the week's five entries printed on one A4 sheet, with the images small, and pin it beside your work.
Reviewers read the sheet before you present, so your three minutes can go on the work itself.
The same day, logged two ways.
log/day-07.pngA reader can follow the decision back to the identity's position, and tomorrow has a clear starting point.
Nothing here could be recovered in three weeks, and "looks better" is a reaction, not a reason the identity holds.