This is basically intuition, a base of experiences that leads to these &quot;gut instinct&quot; decisions and feelings. Doing a journal like the author describes could actually help with your intuition because you&#x27;re adding more specific information from each bug into your mental storage. Now you&#x27;re getting a cursory level of data from each individual bug which leads you to think each one is less important. It&#x27;s like skimming 3 books on a subject instead of close reading 1.<p>I&#x27;m just thinking out loud because I do what you describe here but I think the journaling idea could be valuable.