Corrections go in a new note, not over the old one

Early on, when I worked something out, I'd go back and edit the original entry. Tidy it up. Replace the wrong guess with the right answer.

Felt like good housekeeping. It wasn't. Six months later I'd lost the original observation — the noisy, half-formed thing I'd actually felt at the time — and all I had was a clean, retrospective version that hid what the early weeks were really like.

The rule now is: never overwrite. If I work something out later, it goes in a fresh entry that points back to the old one. 'Looking back at week 14, that wasn't what I thought.' Two reasons. First, the messy early entries are the data — they're what the pattern emerged from, and they're useful to the prescriber as raw observations, not as my polished conclusions.

If I work something out later, it goes in a fresh entry that points back to the old one.

Second, when I get something wrong, I want to be able to see I got it wrong, not paper over it. The journal is a record, not a working document. Titra keeps every entry by default — there's no destructive edit — but the rule is on me, not the app.