# Daily: The Running Notebook > [!summary] The shortest account > **Daily** is the vault's **capture layer**: dated thought entries, filed the moment they arrive. Dictation, transcription, pasted AI conversations - whatever Bryant hands over when he says "daily" becomes a dated entry, cleaned into **first-person prose**, wiki-linked, and threaded into the graph. Raw material for everything else the corpus builds. ## How it works Say "daily" and provide anything - spoken thoughts, a transcript, a pasted conversation from another AI. Each entry gets a date-stamped filename (`YYYYMMDD - Topic`), so a day with ten entries is ten entries, each under its own topic. Pasted AI material is stripped of the AI's voice and rebuilt as first-person exploration; dictation gets a light cleanup; exact dictation is reproduced character-for-character when he says "verbatim".