Yesterday, I saw that the New York Times had done a project highlighting logbook entries made during the pandemic. Here are two of my favorites:
Lynne hosted mah jongg. Picked up new glasses. Spaghetti carbonara for dinner.”
“We’re at the hospital to train staff on Covid-19 infection, prevention and control. Staff are slowly, slowly arriving to the training site. Thousands of dragonflies are flitting about the courtyard.”
Turns out, the NYT project was inspired by Austin Kleon, who keeps his own logbook to help capture the everyday highs and lows of his life (see more here). I actually started my own logbook back in April. While I want to be a person who keeps a daily journal, I just don’t have the discipline or the attention span, and a logbook is a good way to capture the bullet points of a day without spending much time on it.
I didn’t plan it out too well when I started, and am currently in my third pocket Moleskine for this year. I did buy the full-year diary that Austin uses, so my 2021 notes will be a little more organized.
Here are a couple pages from my own notes:
