The dawn of an era: TWO blogs

So I'm reading Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes A Day by Joan Bolker, and the first and foremost piece of advice she gives is: write first. Stick your butt to the chair and write, for at least fifteen minutes a day. She says this can start out as a type of journaling, just jotting thoughts down about research and how your ideas are coming together, and that got me to thinking. It's a lot easier for me to write blog posts than it is for me to take copious notes about my topic. I just jot down ideas in random places, stick them in the "Unfiled Notes" section in Microsoft Notepad, and then have to decipher them later when I get around to them. Maybe having a thesis journal for the first few months will help me stay on track, write something about or around my thesis topic every day, and make me feel like I'm making progress. Hopefully this is not a dumb idea.