Daybook Vol. II · No. 24 06.08.2026

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Daybook

A daily ledger for a life that refuses to stay tidy — the sleep, the spending, the lessons, the money other people still owe, and the twenty-nine words you managed to write before falling asleep at 3 a.m.

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Locked. Has been since September 2024.

The Contents

Ten departments

  1. 01 Dashboard Every number the month produced, on one screen, without a spinner.
  2. 02 Journal One entry a day since September 2024. Photos optional, honesty compulsory.
  3. 03 Lessons Things learnt, with the video that taught them. Now one archive, not twelve.
  4. 04 Notes Thoughts that arrived on trains and refused to leave.
  5. 05 Tasks A short list, kept short by deleting rather than finishing.
  6. 06 Shopping What the room still needs, priced before regret.
  7. 07 Withdrawals ₹5,000 asked for, ₹4,991 arrived. This page remembers the nine.
  8. 08 Khatabook Who owes whom. Running balances, settle-up in one click.
  9. 09 Buy / Sell Cameras and cycles, in and out, with the profit stated plainly.
  10. 10 Smart Home Four relays on a Pi, one tunnel, and the nerve to press them from class.

“Three months of this went missing between May and August. They have been reconstructed from the shape of every month before them — and labelled as such, because a journal that lies to you is just a diary with good PR.”

— Colophon, entry 612

Set in three

Typography

Display

Fraunces

Headlines, figures, the big numerals. Wonky by design.

Reading

Newsreader

Every word you write. Optical sizing, real italics.

Data

JetBrains Mono

Labels, rupees, hours. Tabular figures that line up.

Weight class

What it costs to load

CSS framework 407 KB 0 KB Tailwind compiled in the browser, on every load
Charts 195 KB 0 KB Now drawn as SVG by the server
Icon font 291 KB 4 KB One inline sprite, only the glyphs used
Date picker 67 KB 0 KB The browser already ships one
Stylesheet 37 KB 18 KB Hand-written, one file, cached for a day