PlaybookĪ scanned notebook page in Evernote Commentary I’ll describe my findings in the commentary. In each case, I used my most recently completed notebook, book #30. The playbook section below has the procedures I followed for each. I decide to try both in order to see what worked better for me.

Transcribe the notebooks into Obsidian, where my other notes live, or.

I began with the idea that I wanted to be able to access these notes anywhere. This weekly playbook is a kind of experiment. My 30 completed Field Notes notebooks, with an index notebook on top. It would be nice to have access to them no matter where I was. The problem is, I only have access to them when I am sitting here in my office. Occasionally I go back to them, to look for something, like when I was searching for a particular brand of beer recently. They sit in a nice row on a shelf in my office. I’ve filled more than 30 of these notebooks since 2015. Other things are more ephemeral, but even a server’s name in a restaurant can be useful if I am searching for a character name in a story. Some of them find their way into posts I write, some into stories. I do this so that I can remember these things later. Several times a day, I pull out my notebook to jot something down: an idea for a post notes from a podcast the names of people I meet items to pick up at the grocery store the name of the server in the restaurant we ate at funny lines I hear at a gathering. I am rarely without a Field Notes notebook in my back pocket. For an overview of this series, see the debut post on my morning routine.

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