And he's yet to try a Mnemosyne, which is nice, because it means he's got something pleasant to look forward to.
My header format for work notebooks is an ISO8601 date followed by title and then, when applicable, start and end times - these come last, rather than adjacent to the date, because that way it's easier to leave space for the end time if it's uncertain up front. When the header line is complete, I highlight it with a 6mm Pilot Parallel filled with liquid ink extracted by needle from yellow Sharpie Accent highlighters - that nib size spans the full space between lines in a Mnemosyne N195, and using it in a Parallel rather than the original felt tip also keeps it from smearing the Iroshizuku Murasaki-shikibu or Juro-jin with which I ink my Decimo.
I was surprised to see no mention of indexing in the original article. In work notebooks I do this religiously, because while hand-writing does help consolidate memory, an index of notes makes them a much more durable reference tool and makes memory consolidation much less of an issue in the first place.
In my personal diary, I only head entries by date and time, and don't bother highlighting. I don't always know up front what those will be about, so a title doesn't fit, although I suppose I could perhaps usefully backfill one on a finished entry - I haven't reconsidered my diary scheme since shortly after I started the first volume in 2018, so perhaps now's the time. (That said, I'm somewhat put off by the level of effort involved in indexing four-plus years' worth of diary, even if it is also a marvelous opportunity for a reread.)
At work and at home, writing makes a wonderful tool for thought. It's much easier to wrestle with a large and thorny idea when I don't have to keep the whole thing in my head all at once.
I never was a fan of how long it takes ink to dry on Tomoe. Too, for work I require a spiral binding since it lays flat for reference and folds under itself for a small footprint, and as far as I know there is no spiral notebook made with Tomoe River paper. (Or if there is, no one seemed to import it last I checked, at least.)
My header format for work notebooks is an ISO8601 date followed by title and then, when applicable, start and end times - these come last, rather than adjacent to the date, because that way it's easier to leave space for the end time if it's uncertain up front. When the header line is complete, I highlight it with a 6mm Pilot Parallel filled with liquid ink extracted by needle from yellow Sharpie Accent highlighters - that nib size spans the full space between lines in a Mnemosyne N195, and using it in a Parallel rather than the original felt tip also keeps it from smearing the Iroshizuku Murasaki-shikibu or Juro-jin with which I ink my Decimo.
I was surprised to see no mention of indexing in the original article. In work notebooks I do this religiously, because while hand-writing does help consolidate memory, an index of notes makes them a much more durable reference tool and makes memory consolidation much less of an issue in the first place.
In my personal diary, I only head entries by date and time, and don't bother highlighting. I don't always know up front what those will be about, so a title doesn't fit, although I suppose I could perhaps usefully backfill one on a finished entry - I haven't reconsidered my diary scheme since shortly after I started the first volume in 2018, so perhaps now's the time. (That said, I'm somewhat put off by the level of effort involved in indexing four-plus years' worth of diary, even if it is also a marvelous opportunity for a reread.)
At work and at home, writing makes a wonderful tool for thought. It's much easier to wrestle with a large and thorny idea when I don't have to keep the whole thing in my head all at once.