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Update: Found a vintage stationery store in Asheville with a whole wall of old bullet journal spreads.
Seeing how people used simple grid notebooks for daily logs back in the 80s, before it was even a named system, has me rethinking my own overly decorated weekly layouts.
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milesbarnes18h ago
Love finding that raw, functional history. My own notebook was a mess of washi tape and abandoned color schemes before I saw a similar old work log. Stripped it all back to pencil and a ruler, and it finally works.
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kevinallen21h ago
Man, that's a cool find. I used to get caught up making my weekly spreads look perfect, like it was some kind of art project. Seeing those old logs, just plain notes in a grid, really hit me. It shows the whole point is just to get your thoughts down, not to make something pretty for Instagram. I've totally switched to a much simpler style now.
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ray_burns18h ago
Totally get that shift. The pressure to make things look good can really kill the actual doing of the thing. It's way more freeing to just use the tool for its basic job.
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