I have created a Squidoo lens that brings together a heap of links to sites that feature journal writing prompts.
It’s called A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts.
I expect to be adding to it regularly as I stumble across more writing prompt sites.
Feel free to let me know in the comments below if you have a site with journal prompt or journal jar ideas!
For anyone who’s read anything about David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) revolution on the net, you’ll soon notice that a large number of GTD’ers proclaim the virtues of a Moleskine notebook. Amongst other uses within the GTD setup, a Moleskine notebook or cahier makes a great device for recording your to do list items.
There are many ways to structure your to do list within your Moleskine. The simplest is to just have one list and add all your items. As each item is done simply cross it off the list. GTD provides a more structured approach by splitting your list up into seperate context lists - you have a Next Action list, a Someday Maybe list and as many relevant context lists (for example @phone, @computer, @desk) as necessary.
To find out more about GTD and keeping a to do list in your Moleskine see these sites:
Another of Andrea’s lenses, this one’s on motivating kids who are reluctant readers. There’s some great tips here on encouraging your kids to get into reading.
The Yamaha site in Japan has the coolest paper folding section. It has full colour models of motorcycles and animals that you can download, print out and assemble.
They are amazing! There’s an ultra-realistic section with a model of a Yamaha MT-01 that just takes your breath away.
There’s also a section on the Seasons that has the best Jack’O'Lantern pattern. Check it out!
The Sanwa Supply website has a Paper Museum section with a heap of cute paper folding craft activities.
The full colour pattern files are available for download in PDF format. You just print them out, cut out all the pieces, then fold and glue.
I thought this paper dogs and kennel pattern was really cute.
The site is in japanese, so navigating is a little difficult at first, but keep at it because there’s something interesting behind every link.
I’m starting to accrue a bit of a collection of Moleskine notebooks and it occurred to me that I may never get around to using them all. That got me thinking about all the different ways I could use them and this blog post was the result. What will follow is 52 posts on different ways that you can use your Moleskine notebook.
The #1 position on my Uses For A Moleskine Notebook list is taken by the Personal Journal. This is what I use my current Moleskines for. They contain daily what’s happening entries, responses to journal writing prompts, pasted in items such as movie tickets and programme clippings and anything else I feel like adding. As well as creating an historical record, journal writing is a great outlet for your day to day worries.
Moleskine’s make great journals, the paper is lovely to write on, the notebooks are sturdy and hardwearing and the back pocket is a great place to tuck mementos. I also love the size, the pocket Moleskine’s fit nicely in a handbag or pocket so you can take them anywhere. That said though, I have to admit that my next journal is a large sized one - all that more space to journal in.
There are some great resources on the web for starting your own personal journal. Here are a handful of sites to get you started:
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