One would think that organising daily life with nothing more than a pen and paper would be considered crazy given our reliance on email, computers and smartphones. The sudden explosion in bullet journaling, however, is evidence that many still gravitate to traditional means to organise their lives.
As The National reported yesterday, bullet journaling is a simple but highly customisable organisation method developed by a designer in New York that can be applied to any notebook. The method involves numbering pages and using symbols that indicate when an event has been completed or a thought needs to be revisited. While it is a simple ink-based approach to life, there are thousands of variations of bullet journals that practitioners have enthusiastically shared on social media apps and on YouTube.
Just as paper books refused to die out in the internet age, so does the allure of pen and paper. The question remains though: can you still read your own handwriting?
