![]() First up had to be Leuchtturm, a German company now manufacturing in Taiwan. Surely this is a prime wheeze for having some nice paper and a classy writing device within easy reach at all times, right? Right! So here are four of the potential solutions which Nero purveys, and I think we can safely say there's not a 'Milton Bradley' amongst them.Īll of the options reviewed here are A5 format, and that's a sensible size and shape to be going along with. Now, you can guess where this is heading. Of course there is more to it than that, or there can be if you'd like (and there will be a link below if you want to delve deeper), but those are the basics. The clarity this provides can be quite liberating. You can take it a step further by using the space between the action points to record outcomes (referred to in the jargon as 'data logging'), or a hint at what you learned while carrying-out the action, but the main advantages of the system are that it's fast, requires no electricity or software, and if you get fed up of setting yourself the same task day-after-day ('migration') and it never gets done, this is a sign that it's not worth doing - and can be deleted. 'Turns out that I've been using something a lot like a bullet journal for donkey's years. Nevertheless if you actively take delight in that sort of research and don't want to hear it from me, then look away now, because after the next illustration. I admit I was a bit anxious about having to 'enjoy' all those video lectures, but I did my homework, and the secret didn't prove so hard to find. Nero, however, is an insistent hound, who having decided that my scepticism ought to be challenged then sent me so many bullet-journalling resources that it soon looked like I'd have to try some just to clear a way through to my writing desk. Frankly, I suspected it was a fad if I was going to have to endure hours of tedious TED talks about the concept, it sounded a lot like the emperor's new clothes and I was pretty sure I had better things to do. There was plenty of noise about the selection and crafting and archiving of the bullet journal, but it seemed there was precious little explanation as to what on earth one was. ![]() The refined ivory towers of the stationery world aren't entirely immune to hype, however much we'd all like to believe otherwise, and until recently I'm afraid I'd rather dismissed the phenomenon of 'bullet journalling' as an example of such dubious modishness. But I tell this story as an example of how excessive hype can backfire. I'm sure many of MB's products are terrific, by the way. ![]() The final straw was the constant intrusion of the desperately cheesy Milton Bradley Toys, whose rather feeble adverts irritated me so thoroughly that I refused to have anything to do with their products (sold over here as MB Games) for the rest of my childhood. ![]() I thought I could dig Disney as much as the next kid, but every five minutes the lamentable Mickey Mouse Club was interrupted by yet another 'commercial break', and they were even worse. But it did happen, and in between the trips to the beach, the wearing of banana flower hats and, naturally, the picking of oranges (which grew wild just outside the local CHiPs base), I found time for a little television. In fact, it was so long ago that not only had the internet proceeded no further than a glimmer in Tim Berners-Lee's eye, but absolutely nobody referred to said locale as 'The OC'. ![]() It's hard to believe now, but many years ago I lived in Orange County. ![]()
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