This article explores how solicited paper diaries, and the accompanying materials, are carefully handled over the course of one research project. It foregrounds the value of attending to mundane moments with research materials, by tracing tangible material encounters together with intimate fieldnote reflections. Through drawing upon theories of materiality with feminist and relational ethics of care, this article centralises paper diaries as a key mediator of relationships and care within research. It considers the micro processes of choosing diaries, posting them, receiving and storing them and tracing the emotionally charged moments as a researcher in everyday research situations. Such reflections, from the perspective of the researcher, look to offer insights into research relationalities and care. It argues that these momentary fieldwork reflections extend understandings of material methodologies by emphasising relational intimacies as a researcher and connects material and sensory understandings with feminist ethics of care and researcher reciprocities.

本文探讨了如何在一个研究项目的过程中仔细处理征集的纸质日记和随附的材料。它通过追踪有形材料的遭遇以及亲密的现场笔记反思，突出了利用研究材料关注平凡时刻的价值。通过借鉴女权主义和关系关怀伦理学的物质理论，本文将纸质日记作为研究中关系和关怀的关键中介。它考虑了选择日记、发布日记、接收和存储日记以及在日常研究情况下追踪作为研究人员的情绪激动时刻的微观过程。从研究人员的角度来看，这种反思旨在提供对研究关系和护理的见解。