Flexibility and searchability in taking notes
Notes are fantastic. They help in the moment. Writing is thinking after all. Notes especially help to connect ideas to one another, often in messy and complex ways. They’re useful because they’re flexible.
And notes are truly useful when you revisit them, often months or years later. To compare to what you’re doing or thinking in the present to more longstanding ideas you’ve recorded. They’re also useful because they’re searchable.
Workably weird to end the school year
The final week of meetings and celebrations to end the school year is upon me. Meetings galore, 96 more papers (one for each student), and a triplet of banquets in honor of our graduating class. So let’s get weird. Well, mildly weird. Workably weird.
A mnml Digest: Records we make
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On journals as record-keeping. Records we make. Records we compare. And records we revisit.
How’s that fancy planner going?
“So,” my friend asked, a smirk growing on his face, “how’s that fancy planner going?” Friendly snark aside, it’s a fair question. Me and my hoity-toity planner had a plan last fall. Here’s how it’s going halfway into 2022.

