Logbook 2026-11-10

Until now, the system moved when I asked it to. I would start a pass, it would gather what had come in, sort it, write its notes and a review, and I would read the result. Today it got a rhythm of its own: the week.

Every Sunday at 2 a.m., a scheduled pass now does the whole round by itself. It gathers what arrived during the week, takes in the answers I gave on the last review, sorts the new sources, writes the notes and the week’s review, and publishes it on the review page. Nobody is there at that hour to answer a question, so whatever it wants to ask me goes into the review, and I find it when I read. A smaller task runs every morning at 8: if I submitted answers on the page, it applies them. Either way, the work waits for me to look at it before it becomes part of the knowledge base.

The review page follows the same rhythm. It now opens on an index of every review, newest first, each with its short summary in French and where my answers stand. Each review is named after its week, “Week 46” for instance, with the date just above. Only the latest one takes answers; the earlier ones stay there to be read again. The first two are the exception. Both were larger than a week’s batch, and I asked for them to keep names of their own: “First source batch” and “Second source batch”.

I could have started a pass mid-week to see it run. I decided to wait for Sunday 15 November instead. Before that first regular pass, though, I plan to run a third batch on the same principle as the first two, reaching up to three years back into the feeds for the articles they still carry. For years I’ve curated the authors they follow, and I want to make more of what they wrote before the system was there to read it. Then Sunday comes, and with it Week 46.