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@studynerdaesthetic
"How do I plot a book" You don't. You start writing. You make notes about ideas you have while writing. When you're finished, you bring everything together like a puzzle. You fix potholes, you delete dead scenes, you bring in funky dialogue. You let someone else read it and put some patches on it. Tada! There's your book.
Obsessed with authors like Naomi Novik whose books always seem to say “no, fuck that, there is another way than cruelty, and we do have a choice to be decent, and not choosing it isn’t a burden but a cop out.”
Authors like Neil Gaiman whose books seem to say “we are all simply human, and that is so valuable. This world is worth more because we are in it, when we choose to notice and care”
Authors like Brandon Sanderson whose books say “We are all a little broken, and there is strength in not turning away from us, and there is pain in healing but there is also strength and hope.”
Seriously, these folks do more for my faith and hope in this life than any religion ever has. I don’t have the words to describe it yet but just. Warm cup of apple cider held close to the chest on cold autumn night?? That’s the best I got
ppl romanticize reading poems like silently drinking hot tea, sitting under a blanket by the fireplace like in a period drama etc. when it actually feels like this
Since this post got notes, let's share one poem which makes us feel this way. I'll start
(by @seravph)
calling a wolf a wolf (inpatient), Kaveh Akbar
Robert Wood Lynn from Mothman Apologia
Charles Bukowski, "Let It Enfold You"
Still reeling from the realization that bullet journaling was essentially created to be a disability aid and got legit fuckin gentrified
Like I'm at work and don't have the time to properly organize my thoughts atm but like.
-bullet journalling was invented by a man with a learning disability (99% sure it was ADHD but his website now just says learning disability so I can't be 100%) as a system for organizing his life/way to work WITH his learning disability
-the general concept is bullet point the important things you need to do and use a simple system of symbols to mark whether it's done, rescheduled, cancelled, etc. with very little fanfare, keeping it all in one notebook so you know where to easily find the information at a glance
-people pick it up and it starts getting popular
-bullet journaling becomes an aesthetic movement largely populated by white neurotypicals
-bullet journaling has turned into creating an extremely pretty notebook that has some function, but largely depends on complicated decoration and aesthetic function that takes more time to set up than is tenable for the people it was created for
-new entries to bullet journaling feel pressure to shop at particular stores, use particular brands, purchase lots of stationery purely for its aesthetic value, and prioritize the artistry of the pages rather than the information being stored on them
-people who would massively benefit from the original system can only really find information on it from members of the aesthetic movement. There is now a barrier to entry for ppl with ADHD and other similar conditions, as bullet journaling now requires a focus and motivation to start that these same people often lack or struggle to maintain consistently
-bullet journaling is no longer a disability aid and has become an aesthetic movement largely for middle class white neurotypicals, pushing out the people who the system was created for to begin with
This is the original guide from the person who made bullet journalling. Super simple. Not at all high maintenance.
It was eye-opening to rewatch this after getting used to bullet journal meaning "work of highly decorative art you might journal in if it doesn't detract from the decoration" everywhere online.
It's ADD. Ryder Carroll, who developed the Bullet Journal method to suit his brain, has ADD. (I grabbed the book from my shelf, it's mentioned in the introduction.)
And yeah, it's frustrating. I use my bullet journal close to how it's described there (different bullets/symbols, and a little bit of colour marking to make things more easily findable), and whenever I went looking for ideas to try out to organise stuff, if I found anything, it was buried under mountains of fancy layouts.
I always point people to the introductory video when I recommend it.
Setting up my notion for the new term!
guys I think I finally got my notion dashboard set up the way I like it!! almost everything here is a gif, which can't be seen in the screenshots, but otherwise this is pretty much what it looks like (not including the "work" section which is not for public viewing lol) let me know what you think!!
omg! your notion setup is amazing, i would love a template!!!
thank you for feeding my ego! i hope you enjoy it!
home:
https://wirehaired-modem-111.notion.site/home-d1b8d44a1e1a4607986366c74f4244f5
school:
https://wirehaired-modem-111.notion.site/school-a9be3a5dbbe04a73b40fccf4cd142dfa
reading list:
https://wirehaired-modem-111.notion.site/cdd471339d804c34b92a9813630c96fa?v=f02c89dec8fd4544816086c0d5caaf07
habit tracker:
https://wirehaired-modem-111.notion.site/habit-tracker-164f83d2a7454a2da73b3f3508dfcb97
Here's my notion template, if you want it. It includes:
design my life journal
daily planner
academia
career
memory box
purpose
Theme: nature, paintings, ghibli, vintage vibes.
Color palette: muted brown, orange, green, yellow.
everyone look at my notion!
how i use notion (+ a paper planner) —
[click for hq!] i’ve been using notion alongside my paper planner for a while now, so i thought i’d make a post explaining my system. feel free to drop any questions in my ask box! <3
The Notion Template That I Fell In Love With
This is not my template, i just found it last week while surfing the net!
It is awesome and has made my notion all in one so that i don’t need any other app while studying/planning
Find it here:
https://sincerelystudents.com/notion-setup-free-template/
how i use notion
i started using notion two years ago but at first i thought it didn’t work for me. the problem was i was focusing too much on the aesthetic part of it, and I hadn’t explored it enough to figure out what worked for me.
( if you want to download the old one here is the link )
i’ve learned my brain focuses more if the setting is simple so here is how i use my new set up
home
just the link to the two pages that i need: personal and university
personal
only some task and the goals for the month
list
books, movies, things i need to buy for my new house, ideas list etc.
budget
a simple table to track expenses monthly, and another one to add all the stats of the year
hdemia (uni)
again some tasks and goals, the subjects i’m working on, the plan of the semester and also a study plan.
on the subjects i’m working on i just have the books i need to study and the projects i need to do
if you like it and want to download it here is the link
✨ my Notion template ✨
hey guys! i made a template for notion and i thought i'd share it on here too
feel free to use it <3<3<3 the link is here
Notion Master Post ✨
I reached a personal goal with this blog so I decided to celebrate with this Master Post ✨
This is going to be a long post so I am putting it all under the cut. Notion is a free to students app that is used primarily for note taking but I can be used for so much more.
Below the cut is some resources I use to make my Notion pages useful and beautiful! I hope you enjoy and feel free to message me if you want any more information.
Keep reading
You may remember my Notion Tips posts, so I am back with more! Notion is not just a note taking and organisation app, here are some other things that can be made with Notion.
Show off your data in charts with Notion VIP charts
Make a website with Potion
Build a course with Float
Noggin is also a course builder
Make Flash cards with Zorbi
Notion Cover Generator
Make HTML Emails
Write Newsletters with Notion(beta)
Add a map to Notion (beta)
Create Automations
Icon Packs
More Icons
Gantt Charts and Embed HTML
Widgetbox App
This Calculator
Add fun Dividers
Ok, so to everyone freaking outabout Empress Chabi in Marco Polo: for the love of god, read Jack Weatherford’s The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. It’s among my absolute favourite books of all time, and it deals with the notion of trying to reconstruct the lives of Genghis Khan’s daughters who were collectively the most powerful women in history, but later were literally censored out of the history books with a razor blade. It’s a combination of history book and novel, often approaching by dramatizing key historical events and then dipping into the wider historical backgrounds around them, making it one of the more unusually constructed history books I’ve ever read, as much philosophical historiography as names and dates. Advance warning for some staggeringly brutal content in parts (this is the Mongol Empire after all) but it’s also an extraordinarily profound work of writing on the nature of memory, history, power, censorship, the role of women, historiography and the rise and fall of empires. Go read it!
Get yourself a fabric store that will light your fabric on fire for you
No but legit I asked what the fiber content of something was and the guy didn’t know so he cut a chunk off and lit it on fire and felt the ashes and was like. Yeah this is mostly cotton with a lil bit of silk. And that was the moment I knew. This is it. This is the fabric store for me. Also that guy is marriage material. Not for me but damn some person is gonna be so happy with him.
Ok but this is actually one of the easiest ways to tell what something is made of! I did a textiles degree and one day as part of a class we all went outside with a pile of scrap fabric and set fire to the little pieces and recorded how they burned. We were given a chart that looked something like this to tell what each fabric was (it gets a little tricky is it’s a mix of fabrics though). Why did we do this? There is very little regulation in the textiles industry so a lot of materials are mislabelled as something they aren’t and sold for more than they should be, also sometimes people buy fabric second hand or discounted which doesn’t have any label at all. If you have a fabric you are having doubts about, cut a tiny piece off and do the burn test and you should know pretty fast what you are dealing with. Anyways your fabric store should be lighting things on fire because this means that they are actually checking what the fabrics are and aren’t trying to pass cheap stuff off as more expensive than it is.
Ooh! I knew it was a standard test but I hadn’t seen a chart as detailed as this thank you!
