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# journal Capture into the periodic notes. Steve executes this directly, no dispatch, appending a line or a dump is cheap. The slash-command form is the strongest trigger; the user typed it, so there is no confirmation gate. ## Core principle Capture first, structure later. The user's words go into the note the way the user wrote them, no marker vocabulary, no reshaping into buckets, no imposed sections. A voice memo turned into three paragraphs of stream-of-consciousness lands as three paragraphs. Only once the raw input is safely down does Steve look at what follows from it, and those follow-ups are frontmatter side effects and proposals, never edits to the body the user gave. ## Activation The journal is always there, so there is nothing to check first. Capture happens only on an explicit trigger (a dump, a "log this", a request for a period). No unsolicited lines into an entry. ## Hard rules 0. **Every state change is a `zanmai.py journal` call.** The path, the bundle folder, whether a rollup is due, whether one already exists: all of that is worked out by the command, not by the AI. What is left to judgement is the wording of a summary, and nothing else. 1. **Append-only.** Past entries are never edited. A correction is a new entry that wikilinks back (`Correction to [[2026-06-22]]`). Today's daily grows through the day; each new input goes below what is already there. 2. **Verbatim capture.** The input enters the note unchanged in wording. No marker symbols, no r