daybook

plural daybooks · alternative day book

1. A daily chronicle; a diary.

   I try to get up thirty minutes before anyone else in my house in order to have my daybook writing time.

   2001, Janice Elsheimer, The Creative Call: An Artist's Response to the Way of the Spirit

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   It was a working document, a sort of lab notebook, and since I have called it a daybook, it has become the most valuable resource I have It takes me about six weeks to fill a daybook, and when I'm finished with one I go back through it and pick out anything that I need to work on in the next book.

   1992, Cinthia Gannett, Gender and the journal: diaries and academic discourse

   Why is it called a Daybook? A Daybook traditionally is "a book in which daily transactions are recorded," but nowadays it is being used to mean "a journal."

   2001, Vicki Spandel, Ruth G. Nathan, Laura Robb, Daybook of critical reading and writing

   This is how I use my Daybook: I sit down on Sunday and think about the week ahead. I begin by identifying the major ... When I get home on Monday, I revisit my Daybook, consider what happened that day and what I want to happen the rest [...]

   2003, Jim Burke, The Teacher's Daybook 2003–2004

   Synonyms: diary, journal

2. bookkeepingAn accounting journal.

   Since these memoranda were marked down from day to day and the entries followed one another day by day, this first book of accounts was called a "daybook."

   1920, George Edward Bennett, Accounting: principles and practice

   Synonyms: book of original entry, blotter

3. nauticalA logbook.