Life, hubski, blogging, working, interfere with my notebook-keeping. During my time of greatest personal growth (end of marriage, new life, new relationships), I filled a thick notebook every month with content, not collage. Now it includes collage (for example, on the first page of my current notebook there is a sketch of a dog that wasoxygen sent me in June 2014 when that journal starts. While I might be working on one journal since June, I've also filled 4 or 5 teeny tiny notebooks. I might also print up something that I sent in an email and stick it in the journal. I'd like to print out occasional comments on hubski and put them in the journal as well (note to self: add this to goals list). Lots to do. In any event, the system hopes to be linear but often is chaos. Yet somehow I manage to function. Question no-cheating: What is your GOAL in keeping notebooks. To organize? to remember? to use as source material for creation? to solve problems? Leonardo da Vinci kept many notebooks. They are all on line now, brought to us by Project Gutenberg. HINTS for people keeping notes in notebooks and not digitally: 1. date fucking everything. 2. don't use abbreviations that you will forget in 20 years. In one notebook entry from long ago, I was writing randomly about sexual experiences and I mentioned having sex with t. d. & h. Several years later, I went back to that notebook for some reason and I had no idea what I was talking about. Who was t., d. and h? I didn't remember having sex with t. d. and h. and I couldn't find any other references to them. I drove myself crazy wondering what I had written about. Then I realized it was a reference to the expression "Tom, Dick, and Harry" - as wikipedia calls it "a placeholder for multiple unspecified people."How many notebooks do you write a year?
Question no-cheating: What is your GOAL in keeping notebooks. To organize? to remember? to use as source material for creation? to solve problems?
Organize and remember were clearly the root reasons, but I see notebooks give much more possibilities (e.g. storing and organizing the knowledge I'm learning, writing down my ideas and then build something out of it) I could use it for and would like to, just don't have a clue how to start. You see I have a pretty hard time starting things, when I don't have a good plan on how to act. Guess I'm more a scientific kind of guy and lack a bit in creativity. I like to have some kind of discipline I set on myself and that shows even in my systematized well-organized note taking.In any event, the system hopes to be linear but often is chaos. Yet somehow I manage to function.
That is something that really amazes me, when looking at other people's notes. I filled a thick notebook every month with content, not collage. Now it includes collage (for example, on the first page of my current notebook there is a sketch of a dog that wasoxygen sent me in June 2014 when that journal starts. While I might be working on one journal since June, I've also filled 4 or 5 teeny tiny notebooks.
So what is the difference between the notebook and the teeny tiny notebook? What kind of different things you store there? Also what do you mean by collage? It's a bit abstract to me, as can be keeping up with chaos in the notebook.
a teeny tiny notebook will fit in a pocket. a journal requires sitting down with it somewhere quiet and filling pages. by collage I mean the paper stuff that are evidence of a story or event, but I might not have time to write the details, tickets, maps, lists, pictures, etc. like you would put in a scrapbook.
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