johnfitzgeralddesign

[update] Now looking at using WordPress to bring it all together…Hopefully, I’ve now achieved two goals- the good looks of a custom-built site (johnfitzgeralddesign.com) along with an easily updatable blog.

I’m a bit of a fan of the above maxim. I feel much better about getting on with things when I have a clear and reliable system for planning what I’ll be up to. However, this desire to plan, coupled with my general propensity for bits of stationery, has meant I’ve chopped and changed systems quite a few times.

For some time, I lugged around a fairly unwieldy A5 size filofax. I liked the way I could file papers of any size easily, but found to just too big! I also dabbled with electronic PDAs but never really got on with them.

Now working happily with a Personal size filofax- let’s hope it stays the course! Rachel is a bit sceptical and is convinced I might change again soon…

I’m hopeful that I can resist the urge to fiddle and just get on with it.

(For those of you who have been/are fettling with your planner, there’s a world of sites and blogs out there!)

We keep hearing how our appetite for information has changed. Some say the web has reduced us to consuming it in bite-sized chunks. We read about more but understand less.

Is this really a new development? I read somewhere (link coming soon!) about how 17th century thinkers kept ‘common notebooks’, collecting diverse ideas together. They also skimmed each others’ works, perhaps in the way that you’re skimming this post.

I’ll try to use this blog as a compendium, jotting down ideas and reflections as they come. I’ll try to find links of interest, and hopefully something new to say…

Watch out too for college notes- I don’t know if putting them here will help my studies, but it’s worth a try!