interstitial journaling

I basically have 4 forms of logging now: I either write in my notebook, type into my phone/computer, speak into a cassette recorder, or record with my glasses. Can these all run in parallel? We’ll see. It’s pretty intuitive to know which mode makes sense in the moment, it just makes the overhead of organizing and sharing a little more complex.

How can a handwritten journal enable more drawing, confession, weirdness, divergence? I sense that analog explosions might cause some friction in uploading. It might be a shot in productivity, but it’s a boost in something else.

I spilled a whole glass of water on my bullet journal; this fragility is a downside of analog systems. But still, even in this worst-case scenario, it survived. I cut out 50 drenched pages with kitchen scissors, and after a few minutes of blow drying it’s operational (with water stains on the top margin). Call it character.

It takes time to write out “calendar views” in an analog bullet journal, but it’s still quicker than a digital system. The overall overhead of an analog system is a probably a lot less than a system of Notion databases (which can be endlessly tinkered). Plus, analog has the secondary benefit of using a pen.

Record every email, every thought, every interaction, every piece of content consumed. Make a full log so you can see the nooks of your day. How can you break procrastination if you can’t see it? Everything is allowed, just write it.

The bullet journal cult…

An interstitial journal gives you a real ‘change log’ for debugging, and it’s format lets you observe and act from the Tao—where the energy actually is—instead of using will power to chip away at an abstract task list.

There’s power in fusing notes and tasks into one list, and then using symbols to delineate between the two. I intuitively worked out some format this morning, and it’s basically a bullet journal / interstitial journal.

There’s something “fresh” about having a full record of the day; it changes the nature of tasks. When something pops in your head