Comments on: What’s Your System?

By: Susan Donovan

Susan Donovan — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:39:26 +0000

My notebooks correspond to the math books I’m reading and the courses I’m teaching. I have two notebooks for every course: one for scratch paper and the other for lecture notes, written to make it easy for me to teach.

By: Lanzman

Lanzman — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:11:28 +0000

Yeah, I have a system. Start on the first page and write stuff until it’s full.

By: Katy

Katy — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:44:26 +0000

Many Thanks for the link!

I have to admit, I’ve been neglecting my Moleskine of later thanks to my new smart phone but I am starting to realise that it’s a lot easier to keep my life organised if everything’s on paper rather than on a screen.

I’m still searching for the ultimate paper-based tool – hopefully I’ll find it one day!

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:14:12 +0000

My journal is a system and my system is my journal. I keep a flag on the current to-do list, although I recently branched out my “fun things” to do list and have a separate color flag on that.

Various notes and ideas can be added on subsequent pages but I can still easily find the original to do list.

If I’m not in a position to carefully write stuff down, I simply text it to my email address and later when I’m at my desk I can align email with to-do list.

By: bogiesan

bogiesan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:14:13 +0000

I use a Franklin compact dayplanner binder for all my business tasks. The two page per day format is perfect for me and I’ve been using the Franklin for almost 15 years. The binder contains several tabbed sections for personal stuff like health/exercise, bicycling notes, house projects, 401k tracking, other things.
I carry two or three pocket moles in my man bag. My journals are where I (pretend to) sketch and make deeply personal observations. when I am touring on my bike, I take one or two moles.

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