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I recently adapted bulletjournaling (from OmniFocus) and absolutely love it. Writing my journal is very relaxing and became a daily ritual of mine. Once a week

by dvcrn 10y ago

I recently adapted bulletjournaling (from OmniFocus) and absolutely love it. Writing my journal is very relaxing and became a daily ritual of mine. Once a week i escape with my notebook to a cafe (without any tech gadgets) and review my entire system, cut out some tasks that are no longer relevant and plan for the next week. Paper also allowed me to confront imperfections and mistakes more directly. I made a ton of writing mistakes that drove my crazy first and made me want to buy a new note first since I was so used to having my OmniFocus in perfect shape. It's really refreshing! Plus It's interesting to see what a engineering brain can do with pen and paper. Most of the "modules" I use in my bulletjournal like my monthly and weekly spreads were from scratch created to fit perfectly on my needs. Oh and boy does good paper feel nice!

Accacin 10y ago
I also use the Bullet Journal "system" and it's really nice and I enjoy writing what I need to do for the day. However, unlike you I haven't really extended it and use only the basics which seems to work fine for me.
- dvcrn 10y ago
  That's great! Simpler solutions are most of the times better. I needed to squish start dates and deadlines, task scheduling, 'waiting on' + 'someday' lists, project pages, weekly overviews and better migrations into mine which took a good amount of trial and error to find something that sticks and is intuitive. On the other hand, I am trying to literally plan everything in my journal. I don't want to rely on any other app and thus need to come up with modules that make it possible to get rid of app dependencies completely.
jschulenklopper 10y ago
http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/ http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/
willtim 10y ago
I like to think of paper as immutable storage. All my mistakes remind me how safe my jottings are versus the average note taking software effort. I do use org-mode and git at work, but even then will often capture to paper.

by dvcrn 10y ago

Accacin 10y ago

I also use the Bullet Journal "system" and it's really nice and I enjoy writing what I need to do for the day. However, unlike you I haven't really extended it and use only the basics which seems to work fine for me.

dvcrn 10y ago
That's great! Simpler solutions are most of the times better. I needed to squish start dates and deadlines, task scheduling, 'waiting on' + 'someday' lists, project pages, weekly overviews and better migrations into mine which took a good amount of trial and error to find something that sticks and is intuitive. On the other hand, I am trying to literally plan everything in my journal. I don't want to rely on any other app and thus need to come up with modules that make it possible to get rid of app dependencies completely.

jschulenklopper 10y ago

http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/ http://bulletjournal.com/get-started/

willtim 10y ago

I like to think of paper as immutable storage. All my mistakes remind me how safe my jottings are versus the average note taking software effort. I do use org-mode and git at work, but even then will often capture to paper.