Being productive
This is inspired by bits and pieces I’ve picked up over the years from recent stuff like Ryder Carroll’s Bullet Journal method to classics like David Allen’s Getting Things Done. It evolves all the time.
What I use¶
- Atoma disc-bound notebooks: these allow you to add, remove and rearrange pages, which I find essential for keeping my notes organised without putting myself under a lot of pressure to find the right place to start a note before I can write. It’s especially useful to be able to keep the key information I need to refer to Right Now together without having too much distraction.
- Fountain pens: I just like the way they feel in my hand and on the page, just the right amount of resistance, and an endless rainbow of beautiful colours of ink to choose from to keep my brain from getting bored. I like bottled ink and a fine or medium nib: fine lets me write smaller, medium reduces the spidery appearance of my not-very-neat handwriting.
- Mechanical pencils: I also like the feel of pencil on paper, and in principle I like “normal” wooden pencils but in practice it annoys me to have to keep stopping to sharpen, and that the line width gradually gets thicker and then jumps back to being thin when I sharpen. Mechanical pencils