It’s the little things we do together, a mnml guest post
Reflecting on how to start this guest blog post, I kept coming back to this one song lyric: “It’s the little things we do together ...” from Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Company. Sondheim’s show is devoted to the inner workings of married couples, their relationships with one another, and what they share together. Pens, for JP and I, are one of the many things we share.
A few weeks ago, Endless Pens sent out a pre-order for a new Opus 88. They partnered with Twenty Sides, who illustrated the cutest dog on the pen’s cap, “Naptime.” Naptime resembles JP’s editor, our sweet dog, Rumi.
Of course I needed the Rumi pen.
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.