Category: Productivity
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Another Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo!
Costumes are coming off, seasonal candy is on clearance, and el Dia de los Muertos is underway. That can only mean one thing: November is here once again, and that means National Novel Writing Month is back. Longtime readers may be getting deja vu looking at this title. However, it’s no mistake. I will once…
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Searching for a Perfect Linux Calendar App
I’ve been trying to deal with a few more matters related to my productivity as of late, especially considering I’ve had a rather eventful July and August. So many things have been happening, and I’ve needed to find better ways to stay productive. I used to time block on paper a lot more often, but…
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Ways to Maximize a Pocket Notebook
I’ve carried a pocket notebook everywhere since 2014. Over the past decade since, I’ve learned all sorts of little tricks, tried some hacks here and there, and kept what worked and dropped what didn’t. Eventually, I got to where I am now where I carry a pocket notebook everywhere despite having a main bullet journal…
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New Year, New Second Brain?
A new year is at hand! As the autumn ended and the winter arrived, I’ve continued using my three biggest productivity tools in tandem with one another: my bullet journal, second brain, and pocket notebook (which I will refer to here as a memo book to distinguish it from a “full-sized” notebook). Still, when I…
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My NaNoWriMo 2023 Results
Mission accomplished. I wrote a while back about how excited I was about NaNoWriMo this November, especially with how I’ve been doing with my very own morning routine through the 5 AM Club. Since I’m a member, I decided to dedicate my growth time (5:40 to 6 AM) all month to writing my novel. “Even…
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My First Serious Attempt at NaNoWriMo
Halloween has come and gone, and November is here. More importantly, that means National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short) has finally arrived. It may surprise some readers to learn that I’m no stranger to writing my own novels. While I’m not published (yet), my first novel remains something I finished drafting during 2020’s lockdowns…
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Super Speed Rapid Logging with Symbols
I finished my memo book from a somewhat recent blog post a while back. To summarize that post, I was unsure how to get the best use out of a pocket-sized notebook to compliment my bullet journal until I saw a YouTuber who gave me an amazing idea on how to do so. Two weeks…
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I Started Time Blocking With Minimal Effort
I know I’ve been updating a little less often than usual lately, and that’s in part because of how life has been busier than ever for me. It’s gotten to the point where even my days off feel like a constant rush of work to get more and more done off a never-ending list of…
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Notebook Nomenclature: Naming and Archiving Journals
Essentially, this was spurred just a few days back when I went through my closet and found a box of all my old notebooks. I was writing down ideas and tracking habits in them well before I was ever aware the bullet journal was really a “thing.” It was only early 2022 when I actually…
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How (and Why) I Carry a Pocket Notebook WITH My Bullet Journal
Ever since I start to bullet journal regularly with an A5-sized (read: the “standard” size) notebook for a bullet journal, I had switched away from pocket-sized notebooks I used to use for my to-dos and other reminders. As anyone can guess, the major difference between my pre and post-bullet journal notebooks includes how much easier…
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