The journal you kept starting and never finishing.

You've downloaded four journal templates. A Notion one with beautiful formatting. A spreadsheet with conditional formatting you were proud of for a day. Day one, enthusiasm. Day five, a blank tab you feel bad opening.

Here's why it always dies: journaling asks for data entry — the price, the exit, a screenshot — right after a trade, win or lose, which is exactly when you least want to do it.

And the facts were never the hard part. The hard part was always what you were thinking — and that's the one thing you never got to, because you were busy typing numbers you could've exported.