diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 46beb80..c74f63e 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -763,11 +763,12 @@ accounts, one of them the reader's, so finding your own meant reading the `By`
 column down the whole list.
 
 Marked *and* filterable on purpose: the mark is how you tell without hiding
-anybody, the filter is for when you want only yours. It resets to Everyone on
-every open and is not persisted — a filter that hides other people's work is
-fine as a thing you asked for and a trap as a thing you inherited from last
-week. `isMine()` is strict authorship, deliberately not `canUndo()`: an admin
-can undo everything, and marking every row as theirs would say nothing.
+anybody, the filter is for when you want only yours. It resets to Mine on
+every open and is not persisted — opening the log is almost always to check
+your own recent work, and a stale "Everyone" from last session is a worse
+default than the reverse would be. `isMine()` is strict authorship,
+deliberately not `canUndo()`: an admin can undo everything, and marking every
+row as theirs would say nothing.
 
 The fetch stays unfiltered, since the counts on the control need the whole set.
 
diff --git a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
index 02298b3..9147eab 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
@@ -255,10 +255,10 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
   const [showBridge,    setShowBridge]    = useState(false)
   const [logEntries,    setLogEntries]    = useState([])
   const [logLoading,    setLogLoading]    = useState(false)
-  // Whose entries the log lists. Not persisted, and it resets to everyone on
-  // every open: a filter that hides other people's work is fine as a thing you
-  // asked for and a trap as a thing you inherited from last week.
-  const [logWho,        setLogWho]        = useState('all')   // 'all' | 'mine'
+  // Whose entries the log lists. Not persisted, and it resets to mine on
+  // every open, so opening the log starts on what you're most likely looking
+  // for -- your own recent work -- rather than everyone's.
+  const [logWho,        setLogWho]        = useState('mine')   // 'all' | 'mine'
   const [editingCell,   setEditingCell]   = useState(null)  // { id, field: 'note'|'tag', text }
   const [undoingId,     setUndoingId]     = useState(null)
 
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
   async function openLog() {
     setShowLog(true)
     setExpandedLog(null)
-    setLogWho('all')
+    setLogWho('mine')
     setLogLoading(true)
     try {
       // Baseline and reference loads are segment construction, not forecasting.