![]() ![]() My Bullet Journal Filling a gapĪlmost at once, I saw exactly where a Bullet Journal would fill a desperately needed gap: the One Book to Rule Them All. It made sense to me, and I decided to give it a try. So I bought the Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll, and read it. ![]() Several people had told me about Bullet Journal, but it wasn’t until recently, as I started to prepare for our December vacation and felt overwhelmed with tasks, that I decided I needed to do something to manage the work coming out of my notebooks. I probably stuck with Todoist the longest, but I found that (a) even that made it too complicated to quickly capture tasks, and (b) it required me to have some kind of device nearby to do so. Over the years, I’ve used many different to-do apps. But I had no good way of finding all of these spurious to-do items, and no good mechanism for checking them off and making sure they were completed. Or I’d note a task from a meeting in my Composition Book. Occasionally, I’d find myself making to-do lists in my Field Notes notebook. I’m always jotting stuff down, and it often proves useful when I summarize my day in my commonplace book. I have my Field Notes notebook with me all the time. I’ve grown used to this division of notebook labor. It makes things less complicated.Ī typical page in my commonplace book But something was missing This means I can index it to the entry number as opposed to a page number. This sequencing continues from one book to the next (I don’t start over at 1 again). ![]() One thing I did in these books from the start was to sequentially number each entry. I figure that someday, my kids might find it amusing to rummage through these books to see what my life (and theirs) was like when we were all younger. I record kids’ milestones, and paste in pictures from trips we take. I write about my day, or notes and thoughts on books I’ve read. I use them as a kind of paper-based multimedia collection of longer form writing. I’ve filled nearly three of these books over the last year. I have also been using a large Moleskine Art Collection sketchbook as my commonplace book/journal. I number each book, and the pages in each book, and have started to do some light indexing of them to make things easier to find. The result is a kind of chronology of my day-to-day work. I like them because they have 200 page each which means one book usually lasts me a couple of months. They all go into these Composition Books.
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