PTPL 230 · I drew a paper ruler in my notebook; and raw plain text calendars are still pretty darn great Also, image reduction, online graffiti, and a Blot.im update 2 minute read Preview: I dre
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I drew a ruler in the front of my A6 notebook after seeing this video from Lilla Björn Stationery. It's quick to draw up months the way Lilla shows, which is also Ryder Carroll’s method, but I strongly prefer standard calendar-style boxes on the page. Watch this space for piccies of next year’s notebook once it’s drawn up.
This week I removed all the blank lines from my calendar file to simplify the quick, keyboard shortcut-activated moving of events up and down the file. While I love the look of neatly placed blank lines in a Markdown document, I don’t love having to re-sort them into place when things inevitably get moved around. Read more
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