I STARTED USING the Traveler's Notebook on February 9, 2023 after watching at least five hours of YouTube videos created by people who shared their power tips with their notebooks. I still have a sizeable collection of hardback Moleskines that will anchor an important collection in 2025.
by Bernie Goldbach in Clonmel
I STARTED USING the Traveler's Notebook on February 9, 2023 after watching at least five hours of YouTube videos created by people who shared their power tips with their notebooks. I still have a sizeable collection of hardback Moleskines that will anchor an important collection in 2025.
I decided on the Traveler's Notebook mainly because I wanted to reduce the number of notebook entries that I make every year. It takes 90 minutes for me to set up the Moleskines and the Traveler's Notebook with a structure of inherited content sections. I figured out that I could cut that set-up time by more than 80% by using removeable sections in the Traveler's Notebook. So now I have a notebook just for people and I flip to the page in the "2023 Bernie's Peeps" Notebook when talking about collaborating. I set up a grid notebook called "Academic Modules" and I print four to five short items (often with URL shortened links) into that notebook for every semesterised academic module. I also use that notebook to prepare upcoming modules so I can stay one semester ahead.
I'm trying to cross-post titles from every page into my N9 Obsidian Vault but that's not going to plan. Since I know I can simply link a page in my Obsidian to this blog post, I'm going to list headings from most of my first Traveler's Notebook here.
Headings from pages of my first Traveler's Notebook
Short Codes
Dedication
About Now
Gratitude
Snippets
Words
Reimaging Education
Onward#2
DT Xcel 14 Feb
OECD Report on emerging TU Sector
Work Placement
Rode WGII Issues
ETB Follow-up
AI PRM for SEO
Planning IXD Interviews
Erasmus Plus Background Info
Planning Major Games Dev Options
Essential Follow-ups
DT Zoom 21 Feb
Amalgamated CA items
Week Six Summary
Change Leadership Crew
Lion Desk to Capsule to Zoho
Open eir snags
TechSmith Camtasia Update
ictedu and DT
First thoughts of Intuition
Sam Davern
DT230307
Measuring Influence
Seven Rules of Digital Transformation
Bus Support for Games Fleadh
Student Survey
DT230314
Zoho Projects and Zoho Campaigns
Connected Campus Planning
Reality in 2023 for Congregation
Skypaper
Bernie's Vision Board
Club Zap
Open Tabs should be a process
Sports Hub Under Threat
Reshaping Education with Digital Transformation
Sports Hub needs Clonmel Staff Involvement
TippFM Sports Hub
DT230321
ictedu mailshots with Zoho Campaign
Trump Indictment
LEADER
Tipperary Heritage and Stories on hold
Underway in Ireland U237
Edtech from Ireland E104
Emerging Trends Podcast
Topgold Audio E607-E610
Images snapped during this period
Bernie's Knowledge Management Process
Looking back on this process reveals that my note-taking is 15% writing into my Notions folder on OneDrive with IA Writer, 40% curating pen to paper writing in the Traveler's Notebook, 20% imaging using my cameraphone AI, 20% review of Otter.ai transcripts, and 5% reviewing summaries that surface inside Readwise.
If you've a journaling process--one that doesn't use the bullet journaling format--I'd like to learn why and how you extract value from the process. I often discover like-minded people in this thought space while scrolling the "writing" section of Micro.blog. As this blog post suggests, I use my Traveler's Notebook to keep track of projects and conversations. I don't doodle, zentangle, or paste stickers into my journals. I often scribble tick-off lists on paper and then move them into Trello as checklists.
Daily journaling helps clear my head.
[Bernie Goldbach teaches digital transformation on the Clonmel Digital Campus of the Technological University of the Shannon.]
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