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hawtchocolate · 1 year
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I picked up this cool notebook with a pastel ombre behind dot grid on every page. Excited to use it for lettering practice probably
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hickoryhorneddevils · 4 months
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THEY NO LONGER MAKE MY FAVORITE NOTEBOOK. WEEPING
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chilope · 30 days
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do any of you have suggestions for work planners? ideal specs: smaller than 8.5 x 11in, daily spreads or weekly spreads with room for lists in the daily slots, spiral bound, monthly tabs, notes pages, good paper quality, plain or at least not obnoxious cover.
if your advice is to check amazon, rest assured i am doing that already 👍
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luxurygroceries · 9 months
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Notebook of hot babes for hot babes
Write it down, write it out-whatever it is-in this colorful-cover journal with 144 dot-gridded pages, so even impromptu dots-and-boxes games are an option. Lay-flat binding makes writing or drawing across page spreads an enticing option.
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notveryshrugemoji · 2 years
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Oh also, if you’re like me and you fucking fail at any and all planners you can use my method:
- for appointments, birthdays, etc. use a calendar app of your choice. Have the reminder set for 2 weeks beforehand so you can get whatever might be needed. THEN:
- have a daily, pen and paper to do list. Put literally every little thing you need to do on it. Everything that crosses your mind. And start dealing with it. Every day you make a new list, carry over tasks from the day before (I use a > when I carry something over give it a bit more priority).
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wellappointeddesk · 1 year
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Notebook Review: Odyssey A5 Cosmo Air Light Notebook
Many of us are not quite back into the pen show circuit yet, but we’re eagerly watching others. One of my favorite ways to “do” a pen show that I can’t attend is to watch Mike Matteson’s feed (Inkdependence on YouTube). If he’s at the show, it’s a good bet he’ll do a Friday afternoon walk through. You do need to guard your wallet though, because it can be dangerous. Back when he did the Philly…
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mallowstep · 2 years
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Sobs they’re both like that…also despite VERY RECENTLY making a notebook purchase I need to make another
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lessthingz · 2 months
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Warum Bullet Journaling mit einem Leporello-Buch Sinn macht
Bullet Journaling ist eine flexible Methode, um deine Gedanken und Aufgaben zu organisieren und zu planen. Dabei wird ein sogenanntes Bullet Journal angelegt, ein personalisiertes Notizbuch, das als Kombination aus Tagebuch, Kalender, To-Do-Liste und Notizbuch dient.
Ein Leporello-Buch ist ein Buch, das wie eine Ziehharmonika gefaltet ist und sich aufklappen lässt. Es kann eine gute Wahl für Bullet Journaling sein, da es eine lange, zusammenhängende Fläche bietet, auf der man seine Ideen und Pläne visualisieren kann. Es gibt viele verschiedene Möglichkeiten, wie man ein Leporello-Buch für Bullet Journaling nutzen kann. Man kann es zum Beispiel als Kalender oder als Tagebuch verwenden. Eine weitere Möglichkeit ist, es als Skizzenbuch zu nutzen, um Ideen und Entwürfe festzuhalten. Aber eine Anwendung macht es besonders praktisch gegenüber herkömmlichen Büchern.
Die Bullet-Journal Methode von Ryder Carroll ist ein gutes Buch, um mehr über diese Methode zu erfahren. Es gibt auch viele andere Bücher und Anleitungen zum Thema Journaling, die dir helfen können, deine Kreativität zu entfalten.
Wie lege ich ein Bullet Journal an?
Wähle das richtige Notizbuch aus: Du benötigst für ein Bullet Journal nicht viel. Wähle einfach ein Notizbuch aus, das sich problemlos überall mit hinnehmen lässt. Das Notizbuch muss weder dekorativ noch in vorgefertigte Abschnitte eingeteilt sein, da du die Einteilung deines Notizbuches bei einem BuJo selbst machst. Du kannst dein Notizbuch natürlich nach deinen persönlichen Vorlieben auswählen. Wenn du beispielsweise die Farbe Blau liebst, dann investiere in ein Notizbuch mit blauer Akzentfarbe. Dein Notizbuch muss nicht liniert sein. Du kannst ebenso eines mit dem für BuJos beleibten Punktraster, Karos oder Blanko-Seiten nehmen. Die Entscheidung liegt bei dir.
Erstelle ein Index: Du wirst die Seiten deines Bullet Journals nummerieren. Dein Index oder Inhaltsverzeichnis wird dir dabei helfen, den Überblick darüber zu behalten, was sich auf welcher Seite befindet. Die erste leere Doppelseite solltest du für deinen Index reservieren. Um damit anzufangen, schreibe einfach „Index“ oben auf die erste Seite der Doppelseite.
Lege deinen Future Log an: Blättere zur nächsten leeren Seite in deinem Notizbuch. Diese wird deiner langfristigen Planung – deinem Future Log – dienen. Der Future Log ist eine Methode, um einen Gesamtüberblick über die Aufgaben zu erhalten, die du in den nächsten sechs Monaten erledigen musst. Er enthält einen monatlichen Überblick mit den bevorstehenden Veranstaltungen, Aufgaben und Zielen. Beginne, indem du die Punkte (sofern du welche hast) auf der Seite zählst und durch drei teilst (bzw. die Seiten in drei Abschnitte einteilst). Wenn die Seite beispielsweise 24 Linien hat, dann teilst du sie in drei Abschnitte à acht Linien ein
Erstelle deine Monatsübersicht: Blättere zur nächsten leeren Seite in deinem Notizbuch. Diese wird deiner Monatsübersicht dienen. Hier kannst du alle Termine, Aufgaben und Ereignisse für den jeweiligen Monat notieren. Beginne, indem du das Datum und den Wochentag oben auf die Seite schreibst. Zeichne dann eine Tabelle mit genügend Platz für alle Tage des Monats.
Erstelle deine Tagesübersicht: Blättere zur nächsten leeren Seite in deinem Notizbuch. Diese wird deiner Tagesübersicht dienen. Hier kannst du alle Aufgaben, Termine und Ereignisse für den jeweiligen Tag notieren. Beginne, indem du das Datum und den Wochentag oben auf die Seite schreibst. Zeichne dann eine Tabelle mit genügend Platz für alle Aufgaben und Ereignisse des Tages
Wenn es um die Wahl des richtigen Notizbuchs für dein Bullet Journal geht, gibt es viele Faktoren zu berücksichtigen. Einige wichtige Faktoren sind die Größe, das Papier, die Bindung und das Layout. Einige der bekannteren Marken für Bullet Journaling sind Leuchtturm 1917, Nuuna und Moleskine. LESS THINGZ ist eine weitere großartige Marke, die sich auf personalisierte Notizbücher spezialisiert hat. Ihre Notizbücher sind in verschiedenen Ausführungen erhältlich und eignen sich perfekt für Bullet Journaling. Die Leporello-Falzbindung ermöglicht es, das Notizbuch flach zu öffnen, und das Punktraster oder die leeren Seiten bieten genügend Platz für kreative Ideen und Notizen.
Durch die Leporello-Bindung wird das Bullet Journaling noch effizienter, da sich verschiedene Seiten wie Monats- und Tagesübersicht direkt nebeneinander ansehen lassen. Durch die beiden Lesezeichen sind diese beiden meistgenutzten Seiten immer griffbereit.
Die NOTEZ Notizbücher von LESS THINGZ sind minimalistisch gestaltet, mit farbigen Gummibändern als Lesezeichen und Verschluss, haben 46 Innenseiten mit Punktraster oder blank, und haben ein praktisches Taschenformat, etwas größer als eine Postkarte. Das Extradicke Volumen-Papier mit 240g bietet einzigartige Haptik und garantiert lange Freude.
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Diagram for the front-left (of the person wearing it) panel of a crochet top i’m designing. The right will be an exact mirror. Back will be a single panel with variations on the wisteria and foliage motifs. Subject to change, particularly in the method of crocheting the netting.
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horreurscopes · 2 days
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does anyone know where i can get a normal ass relatively affordable notebook (dot or grid preferred but lined is fine too - not blank) with this kind of thick, recycled speckle-y paper? everything i can find is either stupid expensive and not actually a notebook ("guided journals" as pictured lol) or on the opposite end of the quality spectrum (tissue paper dollar store notebook). in my wildest dreams it's like a bound a5 that lies flat but i will take spiral too. as we once said in a long forgotten era: i have a mighty need please send me leads if u have them
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chrysochroma · 2 months
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within your walls (desire, desire, till there’s nothing left of me)
@febuwhump 2024: Day 2: solitary confinement
@badthingshappenbingo : locked in a freezer (card is at the end)
Rating: Teen And Up
Words: 2,367
Fandom: Hermitcraft
Warnings: Kidnapping, Torture, Human Experimentation, Unethical Experimentation, Temporary Character Death
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the title is from Strangler Fig by the Crane Wives
this is inspired by @aquaquadrant and @lunarcrown ‘s Hels to Pay AU and From Eden by aquaquadrant.
i highly suggest you read that first bc it is both amazing and the context is helpful
this is the link to aquaquadrant’s From Eden master post
this is also inspired by this piece of art by lunarcrown
as well as lunarcrown’s orginal comic
anyways, enjoy some pain and suffering :)
Deep inside the Hels Tek facility, Tango stood, claws dripping with redstone dust, in front of a grid of circuitry.
The machine Dr. Atlas had sent him to repair wasn’t too complicated, in fact it wasn’t much of a challenge at all. It was just as simple as replacing a few components with the ones the circuit required and drawing a few more lines of redstone dust. The mechanism felt reminiscent of a puzzle you might give a toddler—Tango felt that all he was doing was placing the different shaped blocks in their corresponding holes—but he figured that it was just a test to see what he knows, which didn’t surprise him. This was like his entrance exam before being hired to work at Hels, he supposed. It explained why Dr. Atlas always seemed to be just a few feet away, no matter where they were. Tango hoped that that was a good sign.
A voice came from behind him. “Very nice.”
Tango jumped and spun around to come face to face with Dr. Atlas. “Oh! Doctor, didn’t see ya there. I finished fixing this thing for you,” He gestured at the contraption behind him.
Atlas took his eyes off Tango and studied his repair job instead, as Tango continued to talk.
“It wasn’t too hard, a few things were in the wrong places but that’s pretty much it.” He turned around to look back at his work.
“I see,” Atlas responded, somewhat distracted. His eyes had locked back onto the swirling crown of blaze rods floating above Tango’s head, and he reached into his lab coat.
“So, do you have anything else for me to do?” Tango fiddled with a spare comparator as he spoke.
Atlas stepped closer. “I think that you’ll be very beneficial to us here at Hels Tek.”
“I’m glad to hear that, Dr. Atlas.” Tango spoke, still focused on his redstone.
“So am I.”
Tango felt a sharp prick on his neck, and before he could turn to see what it was from, his legs gave out from under him and his vision went black.
A numbing chill spread through Tango’s bones as his eyes slowly opened. His mind was racing but his breathing was sluggish, muscles slowed by the cold. His senses seemed dulled—whether it was because of whatever knocked him unconscious or yet another effect of the raw, sharp iciness he was surrounded by, Tango didn’t know.
He was laying on the floor, staring up at a plain, white ceiling, dotted with glowstone lamps. They cast a warm yellow over the room, providing Tango with a false sense of warmth that he wished was real. He started to sit up, then immediately noticed an unfamiliar weight on his wrists and neck. The deep jangle of chains being dragged along the floor pulled him even further out of unconsciousness.
“Good morning, Mr. Tango.”
Tango’s eyes snapped up to see Dr. Atlas writing something into a small notebook. The pair made eye contact through the wall of glass separating them, and Atlas smiled. Tango tried to push himself up onto his feet, his arms trembling, but nearly fell onto his face instead. (He glanced up to see Atlas watching him fail to adjust to his lack of energy, then write something down.) His arms, his legs, his brain all seemed to betray him as he struggled to stand, but finally, he forced himself to do so. The heavy iron chains that connected to his collar and shackles and kept him tethered to the ground seemed to drag him back down, but he stood and looked Atlas in the eye.
“Hey, Atlas.” He called out. “What is this?” His voice was filled with confusion and frustration, but overall much less fear than there should’ve been.
“Your new assignment,” Atlas responded.
“Uh, no, thanks. What even-“ He looked around for a second, cutting himself off as he stared into the solid white room beyond the glass box he was trapped in. “What is this?” He repeated.
Atlas snapped his notebook shut and tucked it into one of the pockets of his lab coat. “Like I said, your new assignment, where you will be staying. Indefinitely.”
Tango frowned. “Yeah, no, let me out.” He looked down at the new jumpsuit he was wearing. “And where are my clothes?”
Atlas didn’t respond.
“Hey!” Tango raised his voice. “Let me out of-“ He stepped forward and the chain attached to his collar pulled taut, momentarily choking him. Hurriedly, he stepped back, coughing.
Dr. Atlas stepped up to the glass door, then punched a code into the keypad mounted on the wall next to it. The door opened with a click and Atlas stepped inside, followed by two other Hels Tek employees, who moved to stand on either side of him. Tango’s eyes flitted around the room, trying to keep track of all three at once. Then, Atlas nodded, and the other scientists stepped up, each grabbing one of Tango’s arms. Tango’s muscles tensed up—at least as much as they could—and he pulled against the scientists restraining him. Still, they held him fast, not much effort required.
Atlas stepped forward, reached up, grabbed one of Tango’s blaze rods, and yanked. The blaze rod sizzled, leaving a trail of sparks behind it, but it came loose from Tango’s crown and smoldered in Atlas’s hand. He brought it up to eye level to inspect it—golden, shining, smoking, and most of all, valuable.
Tango gasped in pain, but quickly regained his composure and continued to pull away from the scientists, while glaring at Atlas.
“Hey! Stop it! You can’t do that!”
Dr. Atlas tucked Tango’s blaze rod into his lab coat, then looked back at Tango. “Yes I can.”
The two scientists pushed Tango down, forcing him to his knees. He pulled against their grip with all his strength, but couldn’t do anything to stop them as they pushed him closer and closer to the ground, until he was on his stomach, his face pressed up against the concrete. One of them pinned his wrists behind his back, and the other held his neck against the ground until they had him under their control.
“Guys, hey-!” Tango protested.
Atlas leaned down, fixated on Tango’s swirling crown, then plucked each of the blaze rods out of orbit, one by one. Tango felt each and every one of them leave their place, their absence feeling like a pit in his heart.
“C’mon, not another one,” Tango pleaded. Dr. Atlas ignored him.
In the absence of any blaze rods, sparks fizzled up around Tango’s head, but no new ones formed.
Atlas frowned. “Hm. That’s a shame.”
“Atlas, stop this! Just- c’mon-“
One of the scientists forced his head back to the ground, slamming it into the concrete. Tango gasped at the impact. Then, from the sparks, a new blaze rod flared into existence. Atlas smiled.
“You know,” He looked Tango in the eye. “You and I are going to do great things together, Mr. Tango.”
“Atlas! St-“ he cut himself off with a wince as Atlas stole his final remaining blaze rod.
Still smiling, Atlas stood and walked out of the room, the other two following him out. The door slammed shut behind them, pushing another wave of ice cold air over Tango.
Slowly, he sat up, aching and fatigued, shivering. Then he tucked himself into a ball, too tired to fight back. He closed his eyes.
All of Tango’s days seemed to blend together, forming one painful, seemingly endless existence. Except it wasn’t really endless—Tango had died almost too many times to count over that long expanse of time. Almost.
Minuscule thorns like hypodermic needles jabbed into his skin from all angles. They seemed to suck the blood out of him, slowly and steadily, until there was none left. The branches wrapped around his arms and legs bore scarlet red berries, and the droplets of Tango’s blood scattered over the leaves and floor looked just like minuscule versions of them. They brought a constant, throbbing, piercing pain that Tango could never take his mind off of, at least until-
But that was too slow.
Deep red mist seemed to linger in the air, clouding Tango’s vision and filling his lungs. It burned his eyes and throat, adding to the pain swirling around his body. Each time a bottle dropped, he felt as if a portion of his soul was ripped away, claimed by the burgundy flecks that seemed to glimmer in and out of existence. He lost more and more of himself, never given a chance to recover, until-
<Tango was killed by magic>
But that was too effective.
Steam swirled up from the ground, enveloping him in a cloud of warmth. The red-hot, glowing coals were almost comfortable under his feet. The heat was scalding, yet familiar, and almost sympathetic. Tango was hardly surprised when the first sharp sting across his face came. The Doctors needed to have their fun, after all. So, he stood in the welcoming embrace of liquid hellfire and heard his bones snap, and break, and shatter, until-
<Tango walked into danger zone due to AtlasSyn>
But (as much as it was fun) that was too inefficient.
A cold, slippery nothing filled Tango’s throat, invading his lungs and emptying his mind of anything except panic. It was too thin, too slick to get a hold onto as it dissolved into his core, turning his embers into nothing but smoke. It filled him with terror like nothing else ever could. He was surrounded by it, and helpless to do anything to stop it from ripping away his life, his soul, his fire, until-
<Tango drowned>
But that harmed the product.
A prickling, unnatural chill crept over Tango’s bones. It seeped into his skin like salt dissolving into water—slow and gradual, yet present all the time. It seemed to touch each and every one of his nerves, somehow lighting them on fire and enveloping them in numbness at the same time. It sent a shiver down his spine so curious it almost could’ve tickled if it didn’t hurt so much. It ate away at him, bit by bit, until-
<Tango withered away>
It was perfect—slow, constant, enveloping, (painful,) impeccable. And so the experiments began.
Tango sat, unmoving, just like they told him to. He held still, just like they said, as rows of thorns were stabbed into his arms. Both of his arms were completely numb, yet seemed to be flickering with pinpricks of pain. Dr. Atlas himself was there to pluck the blaze rods from his crown, tucking each one into his coat as if he meant to protect them with his life. It was a constant cycle: Dr. Atlas would take a blaze rod from him, another thorn would be stabbed into his arm, and another blaze rod would appear, ready to be stolen once more.
There had once been a bouquet of wither roses in front of him. They were enchanting, almost would’ve been beautiful, if he hadn’t known what it was like to feel their wrath. Now, there was a pile of deep purple, almost black rose buds lying discarded on a table off to the side (they only needed the thorns).
As a scientist moved to place another bud in the pile, a clump of black, dusty pollen tumbled out of the flower and onto Tango’s arm. Almost immediately, it melted into Tango’s skin, turning the surrounding area a bit gray.
Dr. Atlas’s eyes instantly locked onto the still slightly gray spot. He pointed to the scientist holding the rose bud. “Bring that over here.”
They complied, and Dr. Atlas stuck his finger into the center of the rose, then pulled it out. Black dust coated the tip of his gloved finger, sticking to it like glitter. He turned back to Tango, then smeared the pollen across his forearm. Just as quickly as before, it absorbed into Tango’s flesh, this time leaving faint traces of black veins underneath his skin.
A newfound sense of pain rushed through Tango’s arm, pumping through his bloodstream. The sparks above his head flared, and a blaze rod shimmered into existence, taking its place in his crown. Dr. Atlas reached up a hand, then plucked it, a faint smile on his face.
The pollen was better, they’d found. It was more potent, more harmful, more efficient. The once discarded rose buds had suddenly become a treasure trove for the scientists, and Dr. Atlas couldn’t have been more pleased. And so the testing began.
Test #1: Tears welled up in Tango’s eyes as the now familiar prickling numbness drove him further to insanity. That black dust coated his throat and lungs, making him cough. A couple tears rolled down his cheeks as he felt one of his blaze rods get ripped away from him.
Test #60: Slowly but surely, they were tearing him apart. He felt like, as each blaze rod was stolen from him, a part of his fire went along with. His soul was being taken and sold to the masses for nothing but a bit of profit.
Test #157: Tango longed for the sliding metal doors to his blank white room to open. Even when they were there to refill the respawn anchor, trapping him here. Even when they came to empty the hoppers of his blaze rods, using him for their gain. Even when they came to chop off his claws, preventing any resistance. Because it was better than nothing, right?
Test #326: For Tango, crying was a constant. He took some comfort in it—among all of the deaths, all the malfunctions, through the never-ending blanket of prickling numbness, at least he had this. It was enough.
It wasn’t too much of a change for Tango when Dr. Atlas and the others came to move him into his new home. Just one torture chamber in a blank room to another. He could barely even notice a difference (maybe he didn’t care to).
Dr. Atlas smiled at him through the glass. “Welcome to your new home, Tango Tek.”
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peregrine-rnendicant · 7 months
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if you like multiple, pick your favorite for general notebook purposes.
rb for larger sample size etc etc
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nnolanvega · 4 months
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here’s some more journal content! this is kind of an experiment notebook. i was using it a lot at the beginning of this year and then stopped using it but im trying to test if i like the larger size moleskine as my main journal or if my smaller a6/pocket sized leuchtturm is the way to go…i’m very conflicted! partly i like this size to expand on topics and research and i feel like i can be a little more free in the book but i really like the portability of the a6/pocket sized journal for on the go. but in reality, everytime i leave the house i take some sort of bag so this journal would always be portable too…idk idk idk. i basically copied entries from the smaller one into this larger moleskine just so i can see what it would look like. i’m going insane.
~ i also have a red expanded plain moleskine that i just got and want to use but it’s harder to write in neatly because there’s no grid system or lines to keep the writing uniform so now im screwed and don’t know how to use that one but in reality that’s the book id like to use.
~ another thing i’m struggling with is the idea of wanting everything in one notebook next year so i can always work on any project im developing but i run the risk of things being too chaotic. i have a good system w my tabs and color dots to organize note topics but im wondering if it would be enough to keep it all organized into one book….any advice?
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petite-gloom · 5 months
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Hi Megan! I was wondering if you'd ever go back to bullet journaling? Also, I don't know if you've mentioned this before, but why did you stop bullet journaling? I know the Leuchtrum grids became too dark for you, but was there something with the system itself that stopped you? 🤎
i do think about it! especially because if i look back, bullet journalling in little pocket leuchtturm1917 notebooks was my most successful and consistent book keeping period. i mostly stopped because of the grids (i don't like dots in the same way), and because i moved quite suddenly- everything about my life was disrupted at that point. then i started looking into hobonichi a bit and now it's been a couple of years
i would definitely consider it again, but probably more for my planner than my journal/commonplace book. i've been wondering if the last experiment that i maybe didn't think about was keeping bullet-style lists in a very small notebook alongside a bigger/a5 book, but i suppose thats my intention with the hobonichi weeks. if that doesn't end up working out, then something even simpler like a bullet journal would probably be the obvious next step. so yes, i would consider going back to it! and no, there wasn't really anything about the system that stopped me 💭
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maddiviner · 7 months
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Reading Journals!? Why You Really Should!!
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I'm writing this to promote the concept of reading journals in general for occultists! 
It often seems like, while a lot of us read a ton, we don't engage enough with what we read. It's very important to think critically about the information we consume.
Keeping records of it can be helpful for that. While not everyone's going to vibe with it, I do recommend giving it a try for most witches, diviners, wizards, etc... you might like it. Keeping a reading journal? It has some advantages IMHO.
I found it works very well for keeping track of my reading goals. It also helped me engage more with what I was reading. I think this produced an altogether more interesting experience when reading fiction, too.
I learned more when reading nonfiction, and it helped prep reviews for this very website, too. It's kind of hard recently, because of health issues, but I want to keep a daily reading habit as best I can. I might change up my journaling format, though, which I'll discuss towards the end of this article.
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To begin, you need a journal. Any blank notebook will work. A lot of people swear by dot grid journals. I use those for most other things. For my reading journal, I bought a pre-printed one called Kunitsa, and there are others on the market, too.
Beyond that, you only need a pen. I use a lot of highlighters and other color in my reading journal, to make tracking things more fun. Next, you're going to want to include a table of contents for your reading journal if possible. In fact, I recommend doing that for all journals, but that's another story entirely. If you pick a pre-printed reading journal like mine, choose one with such a feature.
If you're a DIYer, leave a few blank pages at the beginning of your notebook for the table of contents. Usually four or five pages will do for a table of contents, depending on the size of the journal itself. Including a table of contents can also help get past those first-page jitters if it's a blank book.
A reading journal can include an inventory of your library. My own library is digital because I have to cross the Atlantic on a frequent basis. Those with physical books might find it useful to catalogue everything, particularly favorites.
This could even include where it's stashed. Given that I could easily print a list of mine, my journal doesn't have this, but yours could. You could also organize your library based on the criteria of your choice. I do this digitally, and it can be great to be able to pull out a list of (for example) all the Tarot books I own, favorites, etc..
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Keep track of your reading goals! This is the big one, of course. I try to read at least thirty minutes per day, and I log each day I meet that goal. A reading journal can include a simple daily reading tracker like mine, or variations on that.
Some people might track how many pages they've read, or even chapters, for example. You can, of course, include your To Be Read list, adding to it and crossing out as needed.
Keep track of books, authors and topics. You'll want to include a page or two for each book you read, with meaningful quotations and your own thoughts. Some people get quite elaborate with this, including diagrams, images, and such.
I stick to quoting the parts I found important, then adding my own notes. If you buy a reading journal, choose one formatted for both fiction and nonfiction. These little "spreads" on each book help a ton if you want to prepare reviews later on, or just to keep track of what you’ve read for the future.
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The reading journal I've been using has a section for borrowed books. Since all my books are Kindle, and I don't typically borrow books, I repurposed this for my review schedule. You can create your own spread for that kind of thing if you're doing a DIY approach, which would be even better.
Because I didn't see a use for the first two pages of the notebook, I turned them into a little pocket using washi tape. I figure that if necessary, I can include extra trackers/etc on my own paper in the pocket. I haven't done that yet, but I probably will in the new year. Currently, the pocket only contains some unused stickers.
You could, of course, get much more complicated with a reading journal! It's all up to you. I plan to use a similar setup next time around, but doing it myself in a (larger) dot grid notebook. The preprinted version of a reading journal worked well to get me started. Now that I've got the basics figured out, I want to customize things more.
All and all, I know most occultists love journaling. At least, many of us do. But why don't more of us journal about what we read? Dedicating a notebook just for a reading journal worked great for me, and might work for you, too.
I'd look into different options (preprinted, blank notebooks, digital) before getting started. Don't be afraid to mess up, like with any new notebook. It can become a way of looking deeper into what you're reading, though.
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salvadorbonaparte · 3 months
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Stationery brands that are actually worth the money
As a working class student, I often don't have the budget to buy the trendy, big name stationery. Every once in a while, I manage to try out the products people are swearing on. Some of them have been pretty disappointing and some of them have been amazing. Here are the ones that have been worth it, at least for me.
Zebra Midliner - When it comes to highlighters you can definitely use the cheap no name ones but I found Zebra Midliners are not just an aesthetic option, they actually do have mild ink that doesn't damage my notebook or textbook pages and the colours are really pleasant. I also like their Sarasa gel pens. A cheaper alternative that also works is Frixion highlighters, they have a different texture because they are erasable but they're very mild and come in light colours too
Midori Paper - Holy shit this is the best paper I ever wrote on! Beautifully smooth paper, almost no pens smear or bleed through, the grid is light blue so it doesn't distract from the writing, there's a mark every 10 lines to make counting easier, they also come with lines, dots etc but I personally swear on grid paper
Tombow Fudesunoke Double Sided Grey-Black Brush Pen - I have some of the Tombow ABT brush pens for art reasons (different from study related stationery imo) and they're good but the double sided brush pen is so good I want to eat it, it's the perfect size for writing or drawing, the ink is beautiful and it doesn't smear or bleed, it lasts a surprisingly long time without drying out or the tip losing quality (unlike the ABT brush pens tbh)
Leuchtturm 1917 - I feared Leuchtturm would be a disappointment like Moleskine was (which is so bad don't buy them) but I am on my second bullet journal by Leuchtturm (2020 to Early 2023 and now Early 2023 to god knows when), they have a pocket, plenty of pages with good quality (not as good as midori but good for a bullet journal), two bookmarks
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