My bullet journals are as useful as my last index update
I built out my own index this week. And I revisited past indexes to revise according to what worked and what hasn’t in prior years. This week I share my current approach to making an index that works for me. A “what I’m doing” tour, not a “what you should do.”
Asking the right questions about use case, a mnml digest
Five links. Ten sentences or fewer. On the power of asking how might something work instead of will something work. Use case and the rolling reflection on how to make the tools I have work for me.
Inking for planning, in grey triplicate
This week is my teaching bullet journal setup week. My pen-to-paper time will be dominated by setting up headings, laying out columns and sections, and migrating reference information into my new teaching notebook: a 400 page dot grid Odyssey.
All three genres of information need to be direct and sans distraction. So this week’s palette includes three grey inks. Two EF line widths for columns and detailed reference information. And one B line width for facilitating scannable headings.
2022 state of the scholar, tray two
I continue taking inventory of my pen collection this week. A process I started back in July. I like to think through my collection from time to time.
This week, I journey through a second of my four 13-pen trays. The tray I lovingly call “The pen tray of large assortments.”