[@Darkmoon Angel]The journal was a clever idea, thinking out of the box, but inevitably if you lose a memory looking at your journal and seeing your writing that you have done something will mean nothing to a person who cannot for the life of them remember it.
It says you've done it, and your hand is the best proof for that - but the memory is either fading and hazy; or completely gone, in the end those entries say that you've done something and you'd use that to jog your memory, but if there is no memory of it then there is nothing to jog - the journal will be a painful reminder that you are slowly losing everything that you are.
If anything, it's more damaging than it is good.