A fun Washington Post article by Josephine Wolff (see also this post about her favorite notebooks), about the many books now available on various methods of journaling and how to use notebooks.
I cannot stop buying books about how to write in notebooks. It’s not that I require instructions. I’ve been doing it for as long as I can remember, long enough that I don’t need anyone else’s system: I’ve got 50 of my own. And yet, I’m still hopelessly, incurably obsessed with the notebook gurus. I am transfixed by this community of enthusiasts who have made careers out of telling poor, lost, notebook-less souls how to take control of their lives by putting pen to paper. These are people who’ve developed systems that help you structure your time, priorities and goals, often by means of elaborately structured principles and rules.
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Here’s some of the books she mentions:
All the photos in this post are blank. So sad! I really wanted to include it in Link Love this week.
OMG, I read her article about Fantasticpaper journals and realized that this is why I now buy only cheap (readily available) college essay notebooks, the ones with the black and white marbled cover.
“Notebooks are, fundamentally, tools for looking forward and looking back. They’re for recording your past and planning your future in the least anxiety-inducing way possible, in a way that actually suggests you have some control over the direction of your life, while still giving you the freedom to cross things out and start over with a blank sheet of paper.”
Indeed. No need to get hung up on the perfect one. Just scribble, doodle and put things down on paper.