“I have never had a healthy relationship with notebooks. I hoard them by the dozens, I spend hours filling them, I have them shipped across the Atlantic Ocean by the German company Fantasticpaper….

My real work—writing lectures or things I actually intend to publish—all happens on a computer, of course, but my whole life happens in notebooks. And strange to say, it turns out I’m not the only one.”

I’m sure that doesn’t sound strange at all to anyone reading this here! This article in the New Republic goes on to discuss the craze for bullet journaling, and how it has been spread by beautiful Instagram images of people’s journal pages, which can inspire but also intimidate.

“[Bullet Journal creator Ryder] Caroll insists that bullet journals are not just for the artistically and aesthetically gifted. “A lot of people get very intimidated by the system when they see it on Instagram and Pinterest because we have these people who are incredibly gifted calligraphers putting together these pages and people think, ‘I can’t do that,’” he explained. “Just start with the basics and let it bloom from there. Is there a minimal and a lavish version of the bullet journal? Absolutely. And they’re both right.””

Read more at Why the Humble Notebook Is Flourishing in the iPhone Era.