Your bet log tells you what happened. Your journal tells you why you did it. Those are different records and only one of them can be automated. This lesson covers the five things worth writing down after every session, what each one pays for, and the one discipline that makes the whole exercise work: writing the reason before you know the result.
The division of labor
Your bet log handles the numbers. Every bet you placed, the price you got, the closing line, and the closing line value that falls out of the two. Those fields are mechanical — once the columns are set, filling them in takes seconds and asks nothing of your memory.
