Why Martha McPhee Carries a Notebook Everywhere | Wirecutter
I take it with me because it helps me track the uncharted territory of the present moment. In this act of gathering—scrawls about things noticed on the way to a store, the playbill for my son’s brief acting career, glue-sticked to the page—I’m forced to slow down and tend to the parts that evoke a whole.
(Via reader Rahul Gaitonde, published several months ago but I’m just seeing it now.)
My Journaling Webinar Is on YouTube! — Mac Sparky
Last week I did a free webinar on how and why I journal. It came out great, and I got a lot of positive feedback on it. I usually add the webinar content to the appropriate field guide after I’ve finished it. In this case, however, I don’t have any field guides where adding a 45-minute journaling webinar makes sense, so I’m posting it to YouTube. Enjoy!
Worth making the time to watch. Especially if you are looking to start, or re-boot, your journalling process.
Handwriting is still important – Julian Summerhayes
Grant you, the rubric is a bit tendentious — how do I know? — but none of us can entirely escape, even in an age of Smart Phones, the need, once in a while, to sign something, write a few words in a card, or (and we normally have to be in the right mood) send a hand-written letter.
World Sketchnote Day – Mattisms
Today is World Sketchnote Day and my friend Matthew Lang has a good write up about his own sketchnote journey.
Why I Wrote My Latest Book By Hand | MONTECRISTO
The pencil is a tool; the laptop is a machine.
What we believe in.
Finding an idea and creativity space with PLOTTER – Brad Dowdy [Interview No.003] – Plotter
I tried out many planners and notebooks at my job. My planner has rules, my journal has rules. However, I don’t have any rules when I open this up, so it just becomes a space to explore, freewheel, and expand on ideas. It’s an idea space that none of my other notebooks have.
PLOTTER is a Japanese notebook system soon to be released in the U.S. Nice profile of Brad and how he’s been using it while testing it out.
How hundred year old books are restored | Boing Boing
YouTuber Merphy Napier takes viewers into the world of book restoration in her series of videos about the world of publishing. Merphy follows a seasoned restoration expert as she breaks down the various steps necessary to preserve and rebind books that are centuries old.
Very cool. I have an early edition of my favorite Hemingway novel, For Whom The Bell Tolls, that will need some similar love sooner rather than later.
My friend Matthew Lang has been making mini-sketchnotes in his daily log and they are so great.
Today, I am. A collection of Hobonichi Techo’s from 2020.
When you read back on your techo, it’s as if you on that day are there. What you saw, what you ate, what you talked about . . . We collected “my one page” of 2020, a year where we were unable to meet with people casually. The pages are a record of everyone’s life in a year that will go down in history. Let’s look at the “Today, I am.”’s, the theme of the Hobonichi Techo 2020, by date.
Many fascinating examples of how others used their Techo in what turned out to be a historical year.
Our friend Rachael Hartzler does these lovely little illustrations using a Sakura Pigma Micron Pen. Most are not much larger than a business card but the level of detail is amazing.
If you happen to be in/around Saint Paul, MN you get check out and purchase her work at The Grand Micro Gallery and Boutique — which she is the owner and curator of.