Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.

This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this.

Photograph everything before you open it. Ten seconds, settles most disputes.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.

Photograph everything before you open it. Ten seconds, settles most disputes. Five years in on Monero and it lines up.