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A barista in Seattle showed me her bullet journal and I sat there nodding like I understood everything
Last spring I was killing time at a coffee shop in Fremont before a shift, and the barista started showing me her bullet journal while she refilled my mug. She pointed to a spread with color coded boxes and tiny doodles for each day, and said something like 'this is how I track my water intake and my cat's mood.' I just nodded and said 'oh neat, that looks real organized' but honestly I had no clue what I was looking at. She had little dots and arrows and symbols that I guess mean something, like a whole secret language written in a Leuchtturm notebook. I told her I use a plain spiral notebook for my grocery lists and reminders, and she laughed like I had told a joke. I still think about that moment sometimes. Has anyone else had someone show off their system and you just pretended to keep up?
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davis.adam26d ago
The_Oscar's right, we've all got our complicated systems just to feel like we're keeping up.
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the_oscar26d ago
That's the thing about modern life. Everyone's got their own elaborate system they swear by, from morning routines to perfect productivity apps. It's like we're all pretending to have it together, just with different colored markers.
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