my journal (including a log book) for daily life

00:00 introduction
01:13 my journal
20:14 reality check

#journalsetup #logbook #dailynotes #plannersetup

[rengsn]

thanks for this video! i've watched soooo many planner/journal/notebook videos and none of them have resonated as much as this one.

[peat-earth]

very rarely do I watch a video about "journaling" or "planning" that I feel so perfectly captures the way that I think about things. been feeling frustrated about my ability to get anything done, and now considering getting a paper journal. definitely want to incorporate some of your wise insights!

[kateriewing]

This was great, Charlie. I really love to follow videos about planning and journaling that are loose and free and sometimes messy, like life. Still beautiful to look at :) Oh I love your sparkling star stickers! And my notebooks are my grounding special interest. I love that you used that word, grounding :)

[elliescreativeescapery]

I'm really enjoying these videos Charlie! I've been thinking a lot lately about how to balance the 'real' world and digital world in my own life. You're giving me a lot to think about. Very inspiring thank you

[natashab]

What a beautiful journal - thanks for sharing! I also journal and it really helps on so many levels 💖✨

[mellodi]

I love your journal! Great system of combining memories and practical logging. I tend to do something similar only in my planner and I write a lot of day reflections in a separate journal. Plus I hate gluing in stuff, it's like a childhood trauma thing, so I only write and use some washi occasionally.

[alicecosta]

Loved this presentation, simplified to suit, and I can understand the AD side of things, as I have a partner who suffers from this, he needs to write everything down too, but is quite disorganized atm. wonder whether he would take this challenge on. Anyway, I enjoyed the video so much, I have kept a basic notebook for many years, but silly me never kept them, like you say was just a piece of paper which I regularly threw out when finished with, they are so handy. I am now into using them more efficiently and interested in where to go after the field notebook and the planner.

[martamaljkovic]

I truly enjoyed the video ❤️ It's so inspirational to see how it works for you. And thank you for mentioning that we shouldn't stress about it, to make it perfect, to follow any rules and not to be hard on ourselves when we skip days or just start doing things differently! Being autistic sometimes draws me to follow certain routines/rules which then stresses me out and it's good to be reminded that nothing is set in stone ❤️ I have done time blocking on a small piece of paper every evening for the next day and when the day is over I enjoy scrunching it and into the bin 😆 I feel very accomplished then 😆 My diary is more essay type but it's cool to see how you do it! Would love to know more about the tools you use, the stamp, cutouts, washi tapes, printouts etc., maybe a topic for a future video? Many greetings from Croatia

[curseofcontext]

love the journal and therefore i'm stressed about the journal haha 💖 loved this! will borrow the 'guardian spirits' too i think what a beautiful idea to open things up

[craigwillcock]

Great film thank you! I too get stressed out with planning and trying to find the perfect planning tool whether online or analogue. I bought so many! Really inspiring so thank you

[lushlilac]

i love this video and everything you had to say! just subscribed 💜

[howstrangehowsmall]

We are sort of taught to fit ourselves into these systems and if it isn't working, it's a fault of ours. When really, all of these systems can be altered to fit US and work for us.

[allyson--]

Your collages are <3 I would do similar scrapbook exercises but don't have a printer atm

[AvecPoesie]

We share a multiplicity of literary references. I deeply appreciate the likes of May Sarton, Mary Oliver, Joan Didion, and Virginia Woolf. Have you read the published Journals of May Sarton or Virginia Woolf? Their personal ✍ writings were quite intriguing.

[SaraMuzi]

I love this video Charlie! I'm a fellow paper planner DIY-er, and also track the weather haha, it brings me so much joy! But I 'need' to see my whole week at the same time or my brain doesn't function. I'm really intrigued by your little pictures, I assume you print them? You mentioned something like a mini printer?? - what do you mean, the one that can print photos?? I am so intrigued!

[fishinabox]

I am drawn to what you are doing and talking about. Also resonate but don’t know why. So thank you. Maybe you are right in suggesting to find an individual way. I do Jazz note taking. That is if I need to do something I might put it on an A5 size paper and put it on the floor or on the shelf next to me so I will see it. However there will usually be a mind map underneath the A5 so I need to remember to look underneath. It is getting worse?? I am putting note lists on top of other ones. When I finish something I rub out the task on which one?? Some tasks in the mind map get done quick some stay on weeks, depends on priority and not doing too much at once. Some stuff goes on Google Calender other stuff if need a more specific exact time goes on Calender on phone.

I have a diary but just put a couple of notes. Say went to this Cafe, went to so and so, spoke to so and so. But should I do reflective writing?

I admire how you do it but feel for me would it intrude with my other routines. But it is nice.

I have several sized note takers by me. Some lined some plain. I take note books wherever I go. Things can just come into my head and I will jot it down put it in my trouser pocket to remind me to take it out when I get home and put it on top of a stack. I have loads of folders and holders with subject titles for notes. For example I have a display book titled Issues and interests. Inside there are sections titled.

Synaesthesia Moments & Alexithymia

Object Existence

Controversies Mental Health and Spiritual

Opinion Collection

Communicate and How

Investigative Organisation

Polemics

Interests W

Words and Phrases

Books

Philosophy Well Being

Science Alt Interests, Mind Spirit etc

Things to Clarify, Put Into Words.

Messy full of paper slips. At the moment I am doing a Panoptic view of science so started phrase collection.

Sorry to go on. Could say more. To me you are good with your way.

[douloureux.]

Which mini printer do you use to print the pictures?

[lorianderson]

Can you tell me where you got the brown sticky graph note?

[lisafreeman]

do you make a new habit tracker every day? or move it from day to day

[prettyme]

How do you print everything out? a mini printer?