On Keeping a Logbook (2010)
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On Keeping a Logbook (2010)
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#2It’s essential, though the Bullet Journal spells out nice, thoughtful, and adaptable techniques. https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book
The reviews have caught hundreds of important ideas and tasks that had slipped my mind.
Re: On Keeping a Logbook (2010)
#3It’s essential, though the Bullet Journal spells out nice, thoughtful, and adaptable techniques. https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book The reviews have caught hundreds of important ideas and tasks that had slipped my mind.
> essential
For what? Many people do fine and much better than fine without.
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#4Apart from bullet journal, what are other relevant techniques to keep logbooks?
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#5Apart from bullet journal, what are other relevant techniques to keep logbooks?
I used to keep logs at work in Microsoft Word 2000
These days I use WikidPad, a personal wiki.
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#6Apart from bullet journal, what are other relevant techniques to keep logbooks?
I used to keep a clipboard with as sheets as I could hold and then drop the oldest into a cabinet.
Then I did the “hackers pda,” just a stack of index cards with a binder clip. And I would spike the oldest onto one of those restaurant order metal spikey things.
Now I just use obsidian. But I miss the tactile and visual artifacts.
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#7It’s essential, though the Bullet Journal spells out nice, thoughtful, and adaptable techniques. https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book The reviews have caught hundreds of important ideas and tasks that had slipped my mind.
> essential For what? Many people do fine and much better than fine without.
For them, obviously.
Why do people come out of the woodwork and act like jerks every time a notes post comes up?
Why waste the energy? If you don’t get value from taking notes, just move along to the next post.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
> essential For what? Many people do fine and much better than fine without.
For them, obviously. Why do people come out of the woodwork and act like jerks every time a notes post comes up? Why waste the energy? If you don’t get value from taking notes, just move along to the next post.
Commenting on the internet is note-taking for jerks.
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#9I've found a plain (hardback, moleskine-like) notebook with no preprinted page numbers / dates works for me. Dates are filled in when entries are made.
It avoids situations where there's a feeling of wastage when a page isn't fully filled, or cramped writing when there's more than a page worth of information to write down.
Re: On Keeping a Logbook (2010)
#10It’s essential, though the Bullet Journal spells out nice, thoughtful, and adaptable techniques. https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book The reviews have caught hundreds of important ideas and tasks that had slipped my mind.
> essential For what? Many people do fine and much better than fine without.
It actually looks like a typo as the sentences reads much more logically as "It's not essential, but ... "
FWIW I keep checking in on the Bullet Journal blog once a year or so to get some ideas, but I started keeping a variant of Bullet Journal about 5 years ago.
It's definitely been useful for not forgetting upcoming events, reflecting on the last month and for tracking trends on events in my life (e.g. sporadic food logging when making more of an effort to lose weight). One of the most positive outcomes was from recording key details about events - e.g. if I've met someone new at a language exchange, jot down their name and a detail or two about them. I found just re-reading these notes a day before I'm likely to encounter someone again has massively helped the next interaction because I'm not just going "Oh, what's your name again?"