Thomas (tkelly)

Note-taking practice? How about “frustratingly intermittent”? 🤓 I have a growing pile of part-used notebooks. But regardless of paper weight, or binding type, almost all have only 1% to 5% of the pages used, while the rest lie untouched by pencil or pen, fountain or otherwise, accusing me of procrastination, whispering of my fecklessness, but always beckoning me seductively to “Come back to us; write on us; make marks on paper!” In “Bento’s Sketchbook”, John Berger speculates on “How does the impulse to draw something begin?” I cannot draw for toffee, but I do find myself with what I imagine is a similar yearning to write. And yet those notebook sirens call, while I despair. Ah well. At the moment, my current attempt to enter once more into the breach of productive (hey, I’d be satisfied with simply consistent!) note-taking, or close the wall up with Clairefontaine dead finds me reading “A System for Writing”, Bob Dori’s contribution to the modern cult of the Zettelkasten.

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