I’ve taken warmly to thin softbound notebooks of late — especially for my personal journaling. I just started my third in a row. Softbound notebooks are low stakes platforms for experimentation.

Interest in fountain pens is brewing amongst my youngest class of students. The stationery ‘good word’ is spreading. Extrinsic motivation, used pointedly, can be a net win.

My educational happenings are accompanied by a duo of index tabs in my work bullet journal, one for each course I teach. The tabs ease access to the lesson plan outline each course is presently on. Thumb-friendly flipping directly to the exact lesson I am set to teach each day. As such, my tabs move daily.

Tracking is useful for me even when I am unable to maintain my trackers. Any practice that works even when I don’t actively use it is worth its weight in ink.