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1 [1]Skip to content[2] 2 3 • [3]Blog 4 • [4]About 5 • [5]More 6 7 1. [6]Index 8 2. [7]Blog 9 3. [8]Paper notes 10 11 [9][10](Photo)[11][email protected][12]PGP key 12 13 Paper notes 14 15 Published April 10, 2022 16 3 minutes read 17 18 I recently discovered [13]Tom MacWright's blog, and I read some of his 19 blog-posts, and found one about [14]paper notes. I highly recommend checking it 20 out. 21 22 In 2018 I discovered [15]bullet journaling. I've been trying to write 23 consistently ever since, with a somewhat success, but always miss some months/ 24 weeks every year. I've used this to remember what I've done for specific days, 25 what appointments and events I'm attending or going to attend. And it works, 26 but I usually don't write in it everyday, I write every two or three days, 27 depending on how busy I've been that week. 28 29 And when it comes to notes in general, I've been trying to use my reMarkable 2 30 to write notes about work related stuff and other "discoveries" I come upon on 31 the interwebs. But I always seem to forget it when going to work and I think 32 it's a hassle to take in and out of my backpack and remembering to charge it. 33 34 And like Tom, I bought nice notebooks for my bullet journaling and managed to 35 write a lot, but suddenly I abandoned it. I never brought my bullet journal to 36 work or when I travelled, it was just too much of a hassle, and what if I lost 37 it? 38 39 Then a few weeks ago I found a Norwegian store that sells Field Notes, which 40 fit my back pocket perfectly, and I thought maybe I should try to keep a small 41 notebook with me at all time. So I bought six, because I'm going all in. 42 43 And I've written notes everyday, and I've had a blast, it just works. Whenever 44 I just remember something I just write it down and forget about it. In meetings 45 I use it for the same thing. I use it for todo-lists for the day or future. The 46 other day a colleague and I were going through a presentation we were preparing 47 for the University of Bergen and I wrote down all the comments and ideas I came 48 up as we were presenting for each other, instead of trying to remember all of 49 them in my head. And man did that work wonders! I made it into a list and we 50 adjusted everything and nailed the presentation! 51 52 My field notes. Photo My field notes with my Space Pen. 53 54 Like Tom, I treat them as append-only, and when I started doing this, it came 55 naturally for me to only write down my notes in the paper notebook instead of 56 having to rely on a digital notebook. No more needing to organize my notes, if 57 it's more important and useful in a project sense I add it to its specific 58 place when I get time. I flip through my notes every now and then, and weirdly 59 enough, I started to flip through the notebook instead of checking my phone. 60 61 And now, after a week I flip through my notes and add what's interesting to my 62 bullet journal and keep the other stuff in the field notes. It's quick and 63 easy, and I don't have to spend a lot of time trying to remember what I was 64 doing earlier that week. 65 66 Again, I highly recommend reading [16]Tom's post, and checking out his [17]blog 67 in general. 68 69 Tagged with 70 71 • [18]#note-taking 72 73 546 words 74 75 [19]Reply via email 76 Last deploy: 2024-01-28 77 78 • [20]Stats 79 • [21]Privacy 80 • [22]Connect 81 • [23]Subscribe 82 83 84 References: 85 86 [1] https://timharek.no/blog/paper-notes#main 87 [2] https://timharek.no/ 88 [3] https://timharek.no/blog 89 [4] https://timharek.no/about 90 [5] https://timharek.no/more 91 [6] https://timharek.no/ 92 [7] https://timharek.no/blog 93 [8] https://timharek.no/blog/paper-notes 94 [9] https://timharek.no/ 95 [10] https://timharek.no/.well-known/avatar?size=250&quality=90 96 [11] mailto:[email protected] 97 [12] https://timharek.no/public-key.asc 98 [13] https://macwright.com/ 99 [14] https://macwright.com/2019/01/02/paper-notes.html 100 [15] https://bulletjournal.com/ 101 [16] https://macwright.com/2019/01/02/paper-notes.html 102 [17] https://macwright.com/ 103 [18] https://timharek.no/tags/note-taking 104 [19] mailto:[email protected]?subject=RE:%20Paper%20notes 105 [20] https://timharek.no/stats 106 [21] https://timharek.no/privacy 107 [22] https://timharek.no/connect 108 [23] https://timharek.no/subscribe