Take note

    "Notebooks are beholden to their authors. Their function is limited only by the imagination of their owner."

    "Your notebook greets you each morning with the pure, blank slate of an empty page. It serves as a small reminder that the day is as yet unwritten."

    "Your notebook evolves as you do. You might say that you co-iterate. It will conform to your ever-changing needs. The lovely side effect is that as the years pass, you're creating a record of your choices, and the ensuing experiences."

    Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track your Past, Order your Present, Plan your Future. 

    From Seneca comes the book's epigraph: "Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life's account every day ... One who daily puts the finishing touch to his life is never in want of time."

Comments

[Dark Puss]

What about many (most perhaps) of my notebooks? I think they are created under a rather different philosophy. Many are meant to be shared either simultaneously or serially with other authors. Does Carroll talk of those or is he/she assuming that a notebook is the exclusive property of one person?

BTW I don't agree with Seneca! Some things are very well worth postponing (I could provide several examples from my own experience).

[Cornflower]

So far (I'm about a third of the way through the book) RC hasn't mentioned shared notebooks, although he does talk about showing his journal to a friend in order to better explain his system and help her with the organisation and execution of a large project (it did help her enormously), and he mentions a couple who both use the system (in separate notebooks) and who have regular 'compare notes' sessions to make sure their diaries mesh and their priorities are being honoured.

[Dark Puss]

Thank you!

[Cornflower]

You're welcome. If I find anything else I'll let you know.

[Fran H-B]

Not sure I would keep up with keeping a Bullet Journal, but I have notebooks aplenty. Book lists, garden lists, nature notes. All documented away in a system known only to me!

[Cornflower]

I am going to have a go with the Bullet Journal method, I think, mainly as I too have many notebooks for many different things but feel I'd do better with a more comprehensive and integrated system. We shall see!