I have a new notebook that I'm afraid to write in

Created: Feb 06, 2021Published: Mar 28, 2023Last modified: Apr 05, 2023
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It's one of those magnetic ones - it's got 50 pages, but you can pull the pages out and change the order.

Usually I go in head first and write the date, the time, the place, whatever i'm listening to, what I'm thinking about. Then I'll doodle around for a while.

But now it's like...

  • Am I really making the most of these pages?
  • Please wait, I need to overthink this.
  • What if the order changes?

Ideas:

  • Only use it side-ways. Long-magnet side along the top. I could imagine it being annoying if i can't easily flip a page upside down, because saw i wanted page 3 to become page 2.
  • Use it to write a comic? What if I want to go from pages 2 and 3 to 3 and 4?

The two-sided nature is a design constraint - it's making it tough. gotta write just on one side, or otherwise admit that they are connected.

  • The back as the metadata/journal for the front?
  • The front as the journal warm-up for the back?