Quote Originally Posted by andreasdevig View Post
How do you deal with this issue? Just assign a key word or two to each scene/part, and then expound on them later?
Honestly, generally speaking I deal with this issue poorly; yes, your suggested technique would be ideal. In the moment of writing down initial recall, I am rarely in the mood to be that organised about it and prefer to simply do linear recall as much as possible, usually regressive, that is to say, starting from the part closest to awakening and working my way "back" to the earliest parts of the dream, though both ways work fairly okay for me.

And so, typically, I mostly only tend to do key words for segments if my morning will not allow me to write down recall which was actually decent; for example I will do this mostly on this days where I have to get ready to go somewhere relatively early and need to be preparing food for later in the day and so on, usually writing the keywords or expanding them a little in the moments when I'm waiting for something to happen.

I think it sounds like you have a very reliable setup/method for doing voice recording, so I would not necessarily encourage you to change anything about the way you are dealing with recall at present. Realistically, voice recording will only ever be problematic if you're having to go through hours of it because of backlog and if you're not categorising/tagging/identifying it and so on. Though any form of journaling can suffer on those fronts.