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The best advice I've read on keeping a lab notebook is to not worry about neatness. Being a perfectionist, I used to delay writing things down, because I felt
by biofox 9y ago
The best advice I've read on keeping a lab notebook is to not worry about neatness.
Being a perfectionist, I used to delay writing things down, because I felt I needed to take time to "do it right". Or, I'd write things on scraps of paper with the intention of copying it later.
Giving myself permission to make a mess was liberating, and ultimately increased my productivity and the amount I was recording.
I also recommend taking photos of entries at the end of each day, to keep a digital backup.
- krrrh 9y agoThe book “Wreak this Journal” is designed to help people get over the reverence they have for blank journals, and it’s fun for kids. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428862.Wreck_This_Journal https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/428862.Wreck_This_Journa...
- billylindeman 9y agoThis. I've had a few false starts at daily journaling and it mostly came down to being a perfectionist. In the past I'd only write down a handful of todos / notes because I didn't want to "mess it up". I decided to spend 1 month (started at beginning of nov) and only use my bound notebook for everything including diagramming / working things out that I'd normally do on a whiteboard or scrap paper. I do REALLY like that I have a permanent record of some ideas that I'd normally just lose to the ether. At the end of the day who gives a fuck if its perfect, I'm only writing it for myself anyway. Giving myself that permission has been difficult but a fruitful endeavor so far.. I'm hoping to adopt some of the other cool spread ideas I've found on r/bulletjournal