@hobbyjohnny
Thank you! The Franklin Planner videos got me to resurrect the paper systems that worked best for me years ago - The Planner Pad. I have gotten more done in the past 10 weeks than I have in a long time. Daily and weekly planning are a snap. It is faster and I am more confident that things are put in the proper time and place (no auto correct). I have followed you since the beginning. Keep up the great content. It is much appreciated!
@anasimplesolutions
I feel seen :) As an ADHD woman in my 40's, I have figured out that using a hybrid system works better for me and my brain, either because planning needs deep thinking and focus (which my brain doesn't like to do in the digital world) or because I will internalize and more deeply understand things if they are written down. I use a model that is part bullet journal, part digital task management, part calendar. :)
@meeluanistyn1644
I’ve learned such a lot from you about combing digital and analogue systems and, like you, combine the two. Planning on paper suits me so well and, as you rightly say, enables me to shut out the digital chatter and concentrate better on the task in hand. I’ve written analogue journals in the past and found they unleashed a creative, artistic side of me that led to me adding drawings, cartoons, magazine cuttings and even a snakes and ladders game I created that reflected the ups and downs of my life at the time. Nowadays, my journal is 100% digital as I want to password protect it and, if necessary, delete sections that, on reflection, I decide I don’t want anyone else to see. Also, the digital journal can show me what I wrote this time last year or the year before and I use that function every day.
@FuRy117X
"This little book", raises a bilboard :)
@roslynnpieters4969
Thank you for an amazing video. I always feel so guilty walking around with my A5 or Personal paper planner as people don't understand how I can be so "old school"....why I don't use my phone notes or calendar.... When in fact I do (but rarely) ....they really don't see the benefits of slowing my brain down to focus on what needs to be done when before the hustle and bustle of all the screens and notifications. Nothing beats finding notes in an old notebook and remembering the thoughts, emotions, memories that went with it.... Where I barely remember meeting notes typed out last week. 😅
@LowRiderIsBack
Danke!
@BlackPearlMinistries
I stumbled upon the Rollbahn notebooks at Barnes and Noble and now they are my favorite. I like the pocket size ones. I take analog notes in meetings. I can remember things so much better. I picked up some Blackwing pencils and now haven’t written in pen for days. The last time I wrote in pencil before this week was late 90s. I am loving it. ❤
@claudiavolkman1281
This might be my favorite video from you (although I think I've said that before!). So many good nuggets here!
@neitaoutdoors4278
Thank you! This was very helpful, as well as enjoyable. (The Steve Jobs story was quite eye-opening!) One area I have not been successful in converting to digital is all my medical appointments. At most appointments, I have to review past treatment "threads" and often can't get reliable wifi in a hospital setting. It's much simpler and faster to identify the dates of previous "X" treatments, or the past "Y" therapy by flipping through a physical calendar. (I color-code the various "threads" of treatments.)
@dbrakowski
Thanks for all you do---if you're looking for a GREAT book about notebooks, I'd highly recommend: The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen
@armorless6294
Thanks!
@cem.goknil
Thank you! I love writing on paper and this video have me the permission to just switch some things to paper.
@thisisfze
I met walter isaacson in new York...nice man very talented
@toranshaw4029
5:53 yeah, apart from when you're in a building, or remote area, and cannot get any mobile signal (or wifi) to access your digital calendar... which is why I'm looking for a paper based one I can carry around with me, for such eventualities. 9:50 why I like writing in Markdown, as you transfer files between apps and machines much easier.
@kallemann67
The thing about analogue is the granularity of personalisation which can be achieved. From choice of pen or pencil to choice of paper to daytimer size, choice, design. I get excited about the thickness and grade of my pencil leads to even the feel of a freshly sharpened lead scribing onto my french paper. I collect kraft paper and use a paper trimmer to cut it to size, punch holes in it with my hole punch and place it in an old Mulberry Agenda. My phone becomes a ‘photocopier’ and Evernote becomes my digital ‘filing cabinet’ but the process of being dedicated to planning and vision making begins at the smallest of granular levels like pencil lead sharpening or waxing the leather of my Mulberry.
@Mireille.005
I started doing this with my iPhone. I open Drafts or DayOne, like a notepad, and don’t mind it shuts off. Keep it at an angle and your face unlocks it. And there it is
@johngough4626
I confess I am faster using the analog system when brainstorming (plans, lists, etc). I started using the notebook for the weekly planning, personal and professional, two different days! Still looking for the best balance.
@DigitalMoonlight
The only enduring digital format for notes is plain ASCII text and the markup languages that sit on top of it such as org-mode and Markdown. Org-mode in particular is likely to be around as long as computers exist as the text editor that it is an extension of (gnu emacs) is 40 years old and still actively developed. Emacs as a whole is almost 50 years old with GNU emacs being the most well supported derivative. For reference org-mode itself is over 20 years old now and documents made 20 years ago display as they should in modern org-mode.
@garryholmberg6502
My wife loves paper, writes in her notebook every morning. I on the other hand have enjoyed using tech with handwriting. First experience was with the PalmPilot devices. Loved them. Today we have smartphones but except for the Samsung Note they don't offer handwriting. But back in 2023 I purchased the Remarkable 2 E-ink tablet. Using the stylus it has the tactile feel of writing on paper. It doesn't do anything that would distract you, it is analogous to a paper pad or notebook. But unlike paper pads/notebooks you can organize all your notebooks in folders. So my top two folders are Personal and Work. In work, I have more folders and notebooks related to projects. I can include any PDF from my computer on the Remarkable 2. I can then markup the PDF pages. If desired I can even insert pages in the PDF where I can perhaps draw a network diagram, or supplies list. I can then transfer the PDF back to my computer by drag and drop or emailing, so that I can share with the project team. And as someone who writes with their left hand, I don't encounter the problem of ink smearing with the side of my palm as I move left to right across the paper. For me the perfect Hybrid Productivity Method includes having a non-intrusive but so much more flexible and usable handwriting note-taking device like the Remarkable devices. I now have two, as I just moved up to their color version the Paper Pro which I keep in my work bag, and my nearly two-year old Remarkable 2 which I keep on the end table by my chair in the livingroom. Everything is synchronized across both devices via the Remarkable Connect Cloud service. And everything is available on my smartphone via the Remarkable app. I typically on use the app to refer to, rather than making edits, but a few times I did add a typed text box to an existing notebook page. But I would put that in the 1% classification, as I much prefer handwriting in my notebooks and always have my Remarkable device within reach 99% of the time.
@Carl_Pullein