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My Amazing and Painful Misadventures Through Digital and Manual Note-taking
Most of us have become so reliant on digital products that we sometimes forget there is still value in the analog process of manual notes. I’m here to say you can do both. One does not need to do one without the other.
There was a time when I was all I wanted to do was move everything I was doing to the digital atmosphere. From CD’s, DVD’s, even my planner. (Yes, during this time, those were still a thing.). When Evernote was the tool, everyone and their mother tried out and preached its benefits.
I had moved everything over to a digital playground. Still, I found myself overwhelmed with maintaining everything. All the options each of these digital tools gave me and spending too much time looking at screens.
If I wasn’t looking at my computer screen, I was looking at my smartphone screen or tablet screen. Too much screen time can make a person go dull. At least that is what I felt after a while with eye fatigue.
Enter Bullet Journaling …
Bullet Journaling appeared at a moment when more people were feeling overwhelmed by both the advantages and disadvantages of living through digital lenses. It was a simple analog method that only required a notebook and a writing utensil. That’s it.
