The Ultimate Practice Journal

My step-by-step guide for creating a practice journal that meets all your needs and grows with you.

What if you had a practice journal that you never had to replace and contained all your journal entries, recordings, and feedback? This journal would also be able to evolve as you added, changed, and revisited repertoire. Finding all the entries for a specific piece of music would be as easy as typing a word into a search bar AND could be accessed from all your electronic devices. Here’s how I created my ultimate practice journal.

I’m not going to get into this too much, but my practice journal is a part of my second brain. Something to consider… if you are interested in creating a second brain at some point, you might research a variety of note-taking apps and decide which one will best work for you. Some popular ones are Apple Notes, Google Keep, Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, Bear, and Notion. I have built out my second brain and practice journal in Obsidian, so for this tutorial, all the screenshots you’ll be seeing are in Obsidian with the second brain organizational method of PAMA.

If you don’t know what any of this means and/or you just want to create a stand-alone practice journal, no worries! I will only be covering the practice journal in this step-by-step guide, and this will work with any note-taking app.