Ok..I am ready for the rolling of many eyes. I keep the journal and more in a WordPress blog site using categories, tags and the search box to help me find related cooks to decide about the next "experiment". Each cook is a post and sometimes, like last weekend, I did a post of the standing rib pork roast and one for the tomatoes and japs smoked for salsa.
I like it on line as I can update it during lunch at work, access it while at the country house, include photos, etc. We also use it for more than smoking and grilling events; i.e. anything we want to find one day and repeat related to cooking. It has many links to other sites including links to all the step-by-steps and recipe link collections here at SMF.
For years we tried to keep a master table of contents that cited which cookbook had the _____ recipe that was great. The site is becoming our master link to the cook books, recipes we like, want to try, resource sites, on-line cookbooks and techniques, etc.
Yup, compared to most it is way geeky but also comforting that I know where everything is or links to where I can find it and repeat that special [anything] we had years ago. Our site is under a private domain but you can have the same thing for free at WordPress.com. A simple spreadsheet in a book binder would be less time consuming but for a geeky sort of person that time is fun.