: Re: Post scriptum in my soft diary I write what happens to me every day as my diary. I don't write them on paper, but I typeset them in a word-processing system (soft diary), so I can simply

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In the pre-digital days, post-scripts were used because you didn't want to have to rewrite out the entire letter again. But people still use them now, even in emails, sometimes, because they serve the functions of 1) establishing an internal chronology of "this first, then that" and 2) they set something aside as a separate thought, like a parenthetical.

Your diary is for yourself. You can establish any conventions you want for it. But as a record of your thoughts and experiences, it is probably more useful, for personal archival purposes, to use post scripts than to edit. If you were publishing, you would want to erase evidence of the process, and just have the final result. But for a personal archive, the post-scripting process gives valuable info about the progression of your thoughts.

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