# notes --- - [[🌲 eras capture essence and provide context]] # summary --- Beth suggests including "eras" in your journaling. I've thought vaguely about this before, and I'm stoked to revisit it. Beth sees eras as: 1. Having their own identities. 2. Overlapping periods, rather than being sequential. 3. Informing each other. 4. Being personal and self-defined _and_ connected to the political reality around you. Beth tracks her eras in a Notion database, which is connected to Google Calendar, which does something in Day One. # highlights --- > We should consider eras of your life as consciously as we think of the day-to-day. These life eras are the context for the everyday. > We should consider eras of your life as consciously as we think of the day-to-day. These life eras are the context for the everyday. > It’s a practice for understanding yourself and your world better, and I have decided that’s important to me and the way I want to live my life. > Capturing essence is about capturing what feels like the living, breathing, real things that can be associated with a time.