I've been doing this for years, and I've developed a few "inline" methods to allow the journal to flow through multiple projects and maintain cohesion in the face of my otherwise-crippling tendency to do a million things at once and think too far ahead in the future. Perhaps some will be useful to others.

Note that these all rely on vim bindings, as I use emacs-evil. The concepts are probably not too hard to implement elsewhere, though.

- There is one 'main' journal, in my home directory, and a `devlog.md` journal in the root of every project I'm working on. These journals are linked by a series of paths so it becomes easy to `g-f` (goto-file) to jump to the devlog in question.

- The footer of these journals consists of an immediate TODO, and the links to sub-journals previously mentioned.

- at the end of each journal is a string (,./). This allows me to jump to the place where I'd just start writing (in vim/evil emacs) with a simple `/,./`. This bookmark always sits between the 'journal' component (the top half, where the mind-dumping occurs) and the directory of child projects / TODO at the footer.

- All of these are committed to version control with a nightly cron job.