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Sam Granger's avatar

Great post. This is a new quarter when I swap out my pocket reading log for a new one. Here’s how I review those: https://open.substack.com/pub/armchairnotes/p/reviewing-reading-logs-armchair-method

Here’s how I process Catch-Alls: https://open.substack.com/pub/armchairnotes/p/notebook-processing-catch-alls

Here is yesterday’s post about the Goldilocks Principle and finding just the right notebook for each kind of writing: https://open.substack.com/pub/armchairnotes/p/the-goldilocks-principle-of-notebooks

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Olivia Rafferty ✨'s avatar

my current system:

- a very flippy-floppy lined notebook (like an exercise book) for morning pages. the lines are super close together so it does ask for more writing per page. don't love it but i have to use a bunch of them up

- a more robust softcover lined notebook with a lot more pages. this is my project book for my next album. has free-writing and lyrics in it, with coloured tabs i've added in.

- a boring page-per-day 2025 diary that i got from a stationery shop that i use to track what i eat in a day and how i feel physically (sore tummy girls rise up!!)

- a leuchtturm knock-off that i use for collaging.

i currently don't have a notebook that i take around with me places or a planner. i was very in the bullet journal stuff back in 2017/18 and have to go back to it but i haven't managed to keep it up. my biggest thing right now is just having stacks of blank index cards everywhere that i can pick up and write a to-do list on or an idea etc.

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