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Session reviews and notes: writing the post-session anchor

Updated September 6, 2026

The session review is the honest anchor at the end of a day. Four questions, two minutes, and tomorrow starts from something you decided rather than something you felt.

Where it is

Journal, then Sessions. Each trading day is a card, and each card carries its own review. Press Write the review.

The four questions

  • What the plan was. The setup you came in looking for, and the size you were going to take it at.
  • What actually happened. The trades you took, in order, and why you took each one.
  • The rule that slipped. Name it plainly. If nothing slipped, say that too.
  • One thing for tomorrow. One change, specific enough that you will know by lunch whether you made it.

The order is deliberate. Writing the plan first, before you look at the result, is what stops the review becoming a story about the P&L.

There are scaffolds that pre-fill the boxes with sub-prompts if a blank page is the obstacle. A scaffold only fills a box you have left empty and is never stored on its own. Only what you actually type is saved.

Saving

Saving is explicit. There is no autosave on a timer and none when you click away, because a review is a considered statement rather than a draft that leaks out as you type.

You can edit a review later. Clearing every box and saving deletes it, and the editor warns you before that happens.

One review per trading day. Writing a review is part of a paid plan.

Trade notes are a different thing

A session review is about the day. A trade note is about one trade, and it lives in that trade's drawer in the ledger, with its own four sections covering the setup, the execution, the management and the lesson.

Use both. The trade note captures what you were thinking at the time; the session review captures what the day added up to. Neither replaces the other.

The notebook finds all of it

Journal, then Notebook, is one searchable index over both kinds of writing. It stores nothing new. Search runs in the database over the window you have selected, so a lesson from three weeks ago is findable without remembering which day or which trade it was attached to.

Trade notes are narrowed by phase and account as well as by date. Session reviews are narrowed by date only, because a day review is about the day and hiding one behind an account filter would lose it.

Within a date the session review comes first, then that day's trade notes. Empty notes are not indexed.

After a lost account

When an account is lost, Propfy offers a debrief rather than a scoreboard. It asks one open question, in your own words, unfiltered, with no structure and no grading, and it stays private to you. If you cannot write right now, there is a button that says so and it builds the debrief from your numbers alone.

What comes back is a reflection grounded in your actual trades on that account, what the data cannot yet say, and a short list of things to change for the next set of accounts, each one labelled with where it came from: your numbers, what you wrote, or a general process principle.

Nothing about it is a reward event. There are no points, no badges and no streak attached to it, deliberately. You can close it at any time, and if you have typed something it asks before discarding it.

Why bother

Because the review is where a bad day stops being a feeling and becomes one specific thing you can do differently. The trades are already recorded. What is not recorded, unless you write it, is what you were thinking when you took the sixth one.

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