I recently had some friends ask me to describe my work-journal, so here we go. I am here giving a snapshot of my current journaling practices. When it comes to organization, I am not very consistent. In fact, between the first draft and publishing, I changed some of the details already. So, let’s hurry this up before I change something more drastically.

The Tools

I keep two separate journals: one for work and one personal. The work journal is the one I use more regularly and is more structured, but both are pretty similar in overall form. I am focusing on the work journal here. My preferred notebook is the Rhodia Goalbook. This is an A5 size notebook with a dot grid, a table of contents, a monthly calendar, a daily calendar, and pre-printed page numbers. The paper in this notebook is thick and absorbent, which is very important to me since my preferred writing utensil is a fountain pen. I started collecting those a couple of years ago, but lets not get started there. This will be long enough already.