Analog Office – Make Your Paper Notebooks Useful: How to Set Up a Table of Contents or an Index

Let’s nerd out about the difference between a table of contents and an index; and how we can use these in personal paper notebooks.

Some useful ideas here.

A Return to Analog — The Focus Course

For me, one of the signs of health in emotional margin is how much I’m writing in my notebook each week. If pages begin to stack up without any notes, ideation, or doodling, it’s a sign that I’m not slowing down enough to think on paper.

Fore-edge painting and indexing – Austin Kleon

The outside edge of a book’s pages opposite of the spine is called the “fore-edge.” Like many things that are neglected or overlooked, it’s a place of great creative potential.

Some outside of the normal box ideas for journaling.

I have completely filled 6 journals in my life. I love journaling, but a lot of people think that they aren’t capable of doing it. So here’s my hot tips so that you too can say that you’ve filled out a blank journal completely and are a certified Journal Keeper.

I found many of these to be fresh ideas that may work better for some folks than the traditional “write daily” ones. Worth considering, regardless.

My Life in 3×5 – Rhoneisms

I run my entire life off of a single 3×5 card using my Dash/Plus system. I wrote a post about it several years ago but it could use some updating.

Yesterday, over on my main blog, I posted about how I manage my tasks using a single 3×5 card (with support from my Journal and Daily Log).

Highlighting in notebooks – Jack Baty

For a couple of months now I’ve been going back through my notes periodically and highlighting key words and phrases. I’ve found that if I emphasize the most relevant bit of each note, I can find most things fairly quickly.

Intersting idea.

My Notebook System – ratfactor

This year (2022) is going to see my journal/log’s 10th anniversary and 100th notebook. After manyattempts to write this up, I’m just going to disgorge it all.

Incredibly long and detailed but if you are one of those nerds who enjoy gleaning ideas from other people’s systems then this one is for you.

Analog Office – Office Toy: the Date Stamp

My master calendar and task tracking apps are digital, but I use a paper notebook for my daily plan and work log. What makes it MORE likely that I will a) record the date, and b) be able to read it later (my handwriting’s not the greatest) is using a date stamp.

Kerchunk!

Journaling is fun! // Jack Baty’s Microblog

Journaling is fun. It’s a great way to put the little Instax printer to use, also. My big journal has become a sort of scrapbook with supporting commentary.

Very cool format.