To be honest, I only recently started seriously整理ing my trading records. In the past, I would just look up the on-chain data and move on. But at the end of the year, when I finally looked back, my brain was genuinely blank.

Recently I saw people saying that on-chain data tools are being criticized again for being lagging behind and that they can be faked. But I actually feel the opposite: slower is better—it can help us get our heads clear in advance.

I tried a clumsy method myself: after every trade, I write an entry on a sticky note—for example, “On some date in some month, I swapped some U to ETH on Gate,” and so on—then I stick it next to my monitor, and after two weeks I record everything into an electronic spreadsheet at once. It’s like leaving myself a “backup,” so I don’t have to put my full trust in those external tools. After all, no matter how fast the data is, it can’t beat keeping it straight in your own memory.

If it still doesn’t work, I’ll even take a photo of the sticky notes, save them into a folder called “Bricklaying fragments”😂. Anyway, when it comes time to do taxes at year-end, I can pull them out—at worst I roll my eyes, not go crazy. Slow has its own benefits, right?