journal pages

I’m at that stage of developing a group of designs where I seem to be recording a lot of ideas and sketches in my journal. As I was working on something today, I looked back over a few of the spreads with ideas for the designs I’ve recently published – like the Yorlin one above.…

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5 tips for getting started with your journal

Journals can be many things to many people. Dot-grid journals seem perhaps to be used most frequently as a sort of personal planner: setting health goals, tracking habits, creating useful calendars, checking off items on a to-do list. These are all fantastic ways to use a dot-grid journal – and there are lots of resources…

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journal organisation (for the disorganised)

From the outside looking in, I imagine many people would describe me as a highly disorganised person. My desk is always very messy. I don’t make lists. I don’t have a diary. I don’t use any sort of formal system for organising my time or my activities. I dislike categorising and hate filing. When I…

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my journal and me

Do you use a bullet journal? I do – somewhat obsessively. I am not in the least ‘organised’ (in the way that word is generally understood anyway), and have never used a journal for organisational purposes (that role is fulfilled by the scrap of paper beside my desk that is repeatedly scrawled on, discarded, and…

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