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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. I'm
Joseph Mavericks. I'm an online concentrator and I started my entrepreneurship
journey with blogging, but it didn't start
off that easily. If my teenagers to around
the time I was 25, I always had a ton of
projects on my to-do list, which I either never started or started and dropped
a few months later, I tried to kind of
different things. I built websites
as a freelancer. I tried to create a
t-shirt business. I got into trading algorithms. I tried selling, aren't
creating an online comic, making videos, making an app. And none of these projects lasted for more than six months. In fact, most of them
lasted even less than that. But I always had to drive to be an entrepreneur and I ended
up making the decision of pursuing blogging for
at least six months to see what it would take me. Over two years later,
I'm still here and part of my original
drive to stick to concentration for a little while was found in the
act of journaling. And this is what this
course is about. It's about journaling from a productivity slash
self-improvement point of view. As part of my
self-discovery journey around entrepreneurship, I have interviewed
over 75 people who own their own business,
create content, online. People who are on some sort of entrepreneurial journey
one way or the other. This interview series is
called the people who do. And 60% of all the
people who asked about journaling
journal regularly, either physically or
digitally, daily, weekly, monthly at a
specific time or at anytime. The practice of journaling was a big components in their
answers about productivity. And I strongly believe
that journaling is an inherent part of success. In fact, I consider journaling
to be a keystone habit, which is a term created by Charles Duhigg in
this specific book, The Power of having two defines the keystone habit as small
changes are habits that people introduced into
their routines that unintentionally carry over into other aspects of their lives. It's essentially
something positive that is going to ripple through your life and create more positive changes
as side-effects. Now productivity techniques work differently for everybody. And I always like
to remind people who watch or read my content that I don't believe in a one-size fits all
approach to productivity, but I do believe that there are a few universal
habits that greatly increased the chances
of success for anyone who is willing to
implement them in their routine, no matter the person
who charged the goal, the timeframe, the environment, some habits just work. And I believe that journaling
is one of those habits. And in this course I'm going to show you the
journey framework. I've said it for
myself after having tried many different ones. I went to graphic design school. I had a teacher that always
told us to write down and draw every little
stupid idea we had. Because number one, as stupid as it might
seem on the moment, it might actually
turn into something big if you look into it
more and brainstorming. And number two, once it's out of your brain
and onto the paper, then you're free to forget
it and you can make more space from
potentially better ideas. And even apart
from that concept, journaling has a ton
of other benefits. It can help you clear your mind, just dump on paper
how you really feel. And in that way it can help
you develop compassion, more understanding of
the people around you. You can also write down
quotes you like in your journal and you
can get back to them when you need inspiration or you need to be reminded of
what you believe it. It's really healthy to journal not only from a
work perspective, but also from a mindset
perspective in general, I have been journaling
on and off for the past ten years and I started switching to a
consistent practice right around the time I started
committing to blogging, which was about two years ago, I have experienced with a lot of different journaling systems. And here's the one I
ended up sticking with. My Generally system is
made of three journals. One for weekly and
daily planning, for ideas on the
GoodNotes and thoughts. One for a five-year
memory book projects. The next three parts
of this course are each about one
journals specifically. And then I will go
over kind of a bonus section on digital
journaling with day one, which is an awesome
journaling app. And India, they will just be a quick altro on everything
we learned in the course. At the end of each section, you will find in the assignments that you can publish and share for everyone to see in the project section
of this course. All the assignments
are related to journaling in one
way or the other. The goal is not to already build your agility and routine and everything that
goes around it, like how many
journals you want to use or what type of
notepad you want. The goal is more to
familiarize yourself with the practice of
journaling through journal prompts and a
few layout suggestions that you can print
an answer on paper, or you can just open them up on your laptop if you
prefer to do that. And you will find those in the resources section
of the course. Now again, remember that what matters is to find a system that works for you based on the inspiration and the
suggestions that I gave you. What I always say
about my content is take what you need and
leave out what you don't. And on that note,
we'll see you in the first module of the
course whenever you're ready.
2. Daily Productivity Planner: The first journal, the one for
weekly and daily planning. It's from the brand inspire. Now, before investing
in his journal, I used to have my own
productivity depending template. I decided myself in Illustrator
and it took like this, I will just print this
out and fill it out. But the problem with this
was that after a few weeks, I ended up with a lot of
sheets laying around, not in the right order and
just all over the place. Tracking progress and
consistency and finding potential patterns
in my routines wasn't easy at all
with this approach, I also tried my own
digital version. At some points, I would input
the data in spreadsheets. I love this option
because I could automatically plot charts
and graphs around the data. But again, I wasn't consistent. I would forget to
do it at night. I would have gaps in the data. So what I realized was that I
was a lot more likely to be consistent with this
if I implemented the tracking process in my
morning journaling routine because I was already
doing that every day without having a clear generally
in system every morning, I was already
taking five minutes to just write down my thoughts, take a look at the
tests for the day. So I figured I could just start trekking some
data there as well. That's when I
started researching a ton of different
productivity banners. I wanted one that really
fits my expectations in terms of data
tracking and insights. And so that's how I basically ended up choosing the
inspiring art journal, but with a few tweaks at my own. First that they be tempted. The page template I use the most is obviously the baby tracker. And this is what it looks
like with my modifications. No changes for the top
three tasks of the day. I always use that and in fact, I put the most emphasis
on the first task. Having one task to you
absolutely have to check off every single day is
a very powerful concept. And one I borrowed
from two books, but the one thing by Gary Keller and eat that frog
by Brian Tracy, I highly recommend you read
both of these books that really helped me in my
productivity and self-improvement. In terms of my rewards
for achieving my goals. I don't really do rewards, at least not in like
a scheduled way. So I just write down
my state of mind in the morning into health
and well-being category. I actually just write
down a summary of my day, not because I'm not
healthy. You are. I don't want to keep
track of my well-being, but because I just prefer
to write down a summary of my data if I run or
exercise, I just do it. I don't necessarily
write about it. And then the three things
I'm grateful for today. Instead, when this
summary is short enough that it doesn't
take too much space, and otherwise it
just keep writing the summary of the
day in that part. You also get a little
inspiring quote at the top of every page, every day, which is really cool. Now the weekly
templates every week, I define the goals for the week ahead and I
reflect on the past week. And the spinal journal has two pages designed specifically
for that that are great. On the my goals
for the week page, we have those six areas to
confirm the wiggle flight, which is another
great approach to organizing and
prioritizing your life. I talked about the Wheel
of Life in more details in my course on productivity
called the momentum course. But in a nutshell, you speak to your life
in a bunch of areas, sometimes six, sometimes 78
depends on the templates. And then you choose short-term, mid-term and long-term goals
that fit in each area. I use that on a weekly basis. And then there's a great
habit tracker below that. This is the kind of thing
that is very easy to implement in a spreadsheet
and plot data from, especially for a
data nerd like me. In fact, in the chapter
on digital journalism, you will see that I used to do that with my day one template. But as I said these
days, I like to go back to papers, so that's what I use. Now. This is what I track
into habits stable. We have Sleep Score, which is something I
feel out in the morning, wake up telling which I fill
out in the morning as well. They score which I
fill out at night, whether or not I wrote
an article draft today which I fill out at night and whether or not they exercise today which
I fill out at night. The unit I use next
to the number that date indicates what
type of exercise I did. Kilometers indicates a
running distance and minutes indicates a
workout session duration. I left tracking habits
because I can see how they depend on each other by crossing the data
points together. For example, if I get
a previous day score of at least three out of four, a sleep score of at
least three out of four, then I know I'm most likely going to have a
good day tomorrow. But if I didn't
run for instance, then I need a four to four sleep score to have a great day. Crossing happy data
is in my opinion, a great stepping stone into
understanding your routines better and eventually sending up inefficient
system for yourself. There's a ton of other pages
available in these journal, but I don't use all of them. Things like trips to have
books, to read, birthdays, fitness gland, debt
management project planner, calendar for each month. As you can see, it's
very comprehensive, probably more than
you needed to be, but it's been more
than enough, right? So at least you can choose which pages are
relevant for you. Inspire now provides
a free PDF to discover all the temporary staff to offer in their journal, which you can find
on their website. I think that inspiring art is an awesome productivity planner, which works great for me. It covers six months of
the year and you get a discount when you reorder
for the next six months, I highly recommend his journal. Whether you're starting off with journaling or you've been
doing it for awhile, it can really help you
clarify your vision, your goals, and a roadmap
to each one of them. In the next section
of the course, we'll take a look at
my second journal, the dotted notebook, which is something I used to jot down ideas and anything that crossed my mind really on the
go anytime during the day. I'll see you in the next
section when you're ready. See you there. For
this assignment, I encourage you to try the
Inspire now daily templates, which I've attached
to this course in the resources section. And just try every
morning or every night depending on whether you're
an early bird or a night owl, and then try to fill it out
and to plan your day in some sort of weight by
using the layout provided. As you've seen in the
video you just watched. I've tweaked the temperate myself to accommodate
my own needs. And I highly encourage
you to do the same. You can print it out and kind of changed things in
there yourself. Once you're comfortable
with the daily planning, I encourage you to try the
weekly planning as well, which I've also attached. If you want more information on the journal tryout more pages, you can find a whole
demo PDF at Inspire now daily.com slash pages
slash downloads. If you wanted to purchase it, you can use this link on
the screen right now. And you'll also
find that link in the course description
and resources down below.
3. Dotted Notebook with numbered pages: The second journal I use, it's a dotted notebook
with numbered pages. I use his journal to write and draw on the go or at my desk, I log article ideas,
pitches, sketches. If I had to get rid of
my journaling system and all of my journals,
but only one. That would be the one. And here's why. I've used this type of
generally for 15 years, ever since I was a little kid, I've been writing
down stuff on paper randomly without any
structure, just ideas, tools, thoughts, and although probably the
worst way of journaling, if there is such thing
as bad journaling. It's still my favorite because I've done it for so long and it's also good this
process that I've gotten the best
ideas in my life. Frankly. I mean, that's how
the block was born. That's literally how
every single one of my most viral articles
have been created. That's how I've come up
with ideas for videos. That's how I came up
with the idea for this course, watching now. And so all the ideas that have driven me
and lifted me up the most in my life have been
generated through these messy, imperfect, but great
journals slash notebook. Obviously over the past 15 years to medium has evolved
a little bit. And I've been sticking to the dotted notebook for the
past two to three years. I would say this started
notebook has to have three crucial features for
me to be able to use it. Number one, thoughts, it helps bringing more structured to my flow of consciousness. And I have a terrible
handwriting, but if this helps me
kind of write straight, the dots are kind of like
lines in that sense. And number 23, numbered pages
and a table of contents. This way, if I have something I know I will want to
get back to later, I can write it down
in the table of contents and indicate the
corresponding page number. So many times before I would write something
down and if I wanted to get back to an idea I had
had like two weeks before, it would take me forever
to find it again. Now, I can just write
down somewhat of a structure in the
table of contents. One thing on their
dotted notebook trend that's been on the
rise for awhile now, whether on Pinterest
or Instagram, you see a ton of notebooks
that Duke like pieces of art. This looks amazing
and it can definitely motivate you to
structure your work and track your progress
when you spend so much time making
everything looked at nice. But my notebook looks
nothing like this. I use it as a brain damper and the structure
offered by the dots, the number of pages
and the table of contents are enough for me to stay motivated
to use my journal. But again, props to the
people making the journal looked like pieces of arts.
I mean, that's amazing. I also want to give out a
quick piece of advice here. In my course on productivity
and momentum course, I talked about the
Danish chair example and it applies here as well. Denmark, where I live, is a country famous for
its design in general. But there is one specific
area where there really stand out
and that's chairs. Their chairs are
pieces of art on display in the world's most
famous museums and galleries. The round chair by
humps Fechner is one of the most famous and
recognizable Danish years. It looks nice. And if you have the chair new living room
and invited them over, he or she will surely notice and congratulate
you on your purchase, your sense of style. And again, the amount
of money you're able to splash on something that's
really just for sitting. That's where we come to
one of the big problems I have with most Danish
chairs in general. They're not so comfortable
to sit in at all. I myself tried multiple lines in the past and they honestly
just don't feel that nice. They sure look amazing, but they often fail to fulfill the number one
purpose of a chair, to sit, relax, and to
be comfortable in it. And this problem has a name. It's called pudding form
or design before function. And what I'm getting
at here is this. I think it's really great if your notebook or your journal
looks like a piece of art, which you also need to
make sure it's functional. If you spend like
80% of the time making everything look
pretty and nice and only 20% of the
time writing down your thoughts and
actually tracking stuff. Well, you're not getting
the best internally. At least for me, one of
the biggest traps in productivity is to
spend more time playing around with the
features of a tool, rather than actually spending
time using the tool and doing something productive and beneficial to your
self-development. It's just something
I like to remind people when it comes
to journaling. And it's also something I
will get back to in the day one chapter of this course
where we use the Apple laptop. That's it. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next
part of the video. What we're gonna
be talking about the five-year memory
book last general, I use, See you there. For this assignment,
I'm going to give you three
journaling prompts. And you can either pick one
and try to write about it, or you can write about each
one of them separately. The reason I thought
this exercise would be relevant here is
because as I said, the dotted notebook is my
most important journal. I literally write any
thoughts or having their all my ideas that
just the most random stuff. And so it's really my creativity
outlet in that sense, the only goal of
this assignment I'm giving you is to kind of trigger your creativity and
have fun with just writing down ideas on the
random topic through, in that case,
journaling prompts. And so, don't hesitate
to write down anything that's on your mind
about this specific topic. And once you're done,
you'll be ready to move on to the next course section.
4. 5-Year Memory Book: The third and last
journal I use in my journaling system is the 19 a day five-year
memory book. I found out about this cool item in an interview I
did with Amy Chen. Each page of this minimalist
notebook represents one day of the year with
five entries for five years. In five years from now
when you write about your day on January
10th, for instance, you will be able to
see where you were 1234 years ago on
the exact same day. I think this is an amazing
tool for self-development, motivation, and
long-term vision. So many people pick up
something to work on, tell themselves they're
going to keep at it and drop it after three
weeks and the results, the secret lies in consistency. Once you've defined a project, you want to dedicate your time. Two, you have to be willing
to put your head down, get to work all without expecting any results
before long time. In my case, I started with
a six-month rule and night, which I talked about
in section eight of my course on productivity,
the momentum course. In a nutshell, this
rule states that you should pick up something
because you love it, not because you're
motivated only by money, fame, and views. And once you pick that up, you should keep at it for
six months and consider it like a job without expecting
anything in return again. And obviously, if it all goes
well and you do keep at it, you do get something
in 90% of the cases. So just work on your
project without expecting any results
and the rest will float. I believe the accountability
that generally requires, and specifically these tiny
five-year notebook format we just talked about can help
you achieve great results. As a little bonus, the fact that you
actually don't have that much space to summarize
your day only a few lines. You don't have that much
space to write a long story. And that's both a good
creative writing exercise and a great way to actually wonder and ask yourself at the end of the day what
actually happened today? What do I think is
worthy of being logged in my journal
for that specific date? It's a good introspective
exercising the way we've talked about the
journaling system I use, we've gone over its
three main components, the three journals
and how I use them. There's one more thing I
want to tell you about, and it's called
Digital journaling, and we'll cover it in the
next part of the course. So see you there when you're
ready for this assignment. If you're already interested in trying out the five-year
memory book for yourself, I would just recommend
buying one for yourself. And otherwise, if you're
still hesitating, if you just wanted to
try it out for fun, but you're not sure you
want to buy one yet. Just for the sake of having
a little assignment here around looking back and being grateful and
also self-aware. Try to write down
about each day of this past week in two or
three sentences stops. Because what I really like about the five-year memory book is that as we've seen in the video, the space you have
to write about your day is really
short, really small. And so it really pushes you to actually think and consider
and look back on your day. And to think of what you
want to highlight and what you really want to
remember from that date. So you can have fun
with the templates included in the resources
and when you're done, we'll see you in the last
section of the course.
5. Digital Journaling with Day One: As much as I said in
the introduction that I now prefer to journal on paper, I still use my computer to
lock thoughts once in awhile, especially when I
feel like writing about it because I feel like my hands don't go
fast enough for my brain in terms of journaling, as I said, I used to
do it in day one, but I stopped after a while
because of the long time I already spent staring at a
screen all day due to my job? Yes, because I had a proper
digital system in place, I felt like it was relevant
to include in this course, if you prefer to
go into digital, wait, what is day one? It's not something I
would use to brainstorm article ideas are right,
a lot of thoughts. It can be used for that. It's already amazing Generally, yep, all around us we will see. But I've decided
to just use it in a very strict framework for
logging with templates. One of the main reasons I
chose to day one app over other alternatives is because it uses end-to-end encryption. This means that your data is securely encrypted
from your laptop to the day once servers and back the other way when you
retrieve data from the app. The big downside though, is that the encryption key is
paired with your Apple ID. You have to sync the app with your Apple ID in
order to be able to backup stuff to the Cloud and there
was no way around it. I'm personally not a
fan of using Apple ID mainly for privacy concerns,
but that's up to you. And because of
that, I only store my journalists
locally on my laptop. It doesn't mean
they're not encrypted anymore and you still need a
password to access the app. It just means that it
doesn't sink on the Cloud so I can't access my journal
on my phone, for instance. That's completely
fine by me because I have very few
apps on my phone. I barely ever used my phone for anything, even for texting. I do it from my laptop with
a web version of WhatsApp. So it's not a problem
for me at all, but it's just something I
thought I would point out. By the way, speaking of phone, this section does
not cover how I use my day one framework
on the phone because that's not
something I do. And my number one goal with my content is to give
you inspiration about productivity and
self-improvement through real life case studies. So that's maybe how
I get stuff done. No phone using this course. Just to clarify, ends with that in mind,
let's get started. Day one is mainly
syllabus journaling gap, but a library for your journals app would be a
more accurate description. In my opinion. It's not just one
journal, it's many. In fact, you can have as many journalists you
want in premium mode, exactly like your bookshelf in your bedroom or your
personal library. Inside those journals, you
will have your entries. That's just stuff
you write every day, every week, every month. And those entries show
separately inside each journal. Finally, inside those entries, you'll find your content. Your content will
usually be made of text, but it can also be images, links, embedded
documents, locations. I usually keep it simple and
just have text in there. The beauty of day one instead, it makes everything
organized naturally. Whenever you open your digital
journal to write in it, everything you type will
be made searchable by Content-Type text by date. That's one of the big advantages over physical journaling, where things can get
messy really quickly, unless you're a fan
of Julian heart, which I've talked about
earlier in the course. But even if you do that and you're really
organized and neat, nothing beats the ease of
surge of a digital tool. The best way to get
the most out of this search and
filtering options in day one is to use a
different view modes. Day one has four main view modes which we're gonna
go over right now. So first is the
vertical timeline view. Your entries are displayed
in a chronological order from most recent at the top to least
recent at the bottom. It's basically like ListView. Then you have the medial view. This shows only the media you've uploaded to your journal. For most users, this will
be pictures, photos. They also displayed from most
recent, two least recent. And when you click on one, the constant panel updates with the entry whether
media can be found. I personally barely ever upload
pictures to my journals. I don't really use that, but it can be useful
none on the list. The third view is
the location of you. You can decide to add
your physical location to everything you write in
your journal, like a tag. Basically. This
is the view where you'd be able to see all your
journal entries on the map. If you're like a world traveler, this can be pretty cool, but otherwise you'll just see a ton of pointers
and your address basically because one pointer
represents one entry. And if you'd just use
your journal at home, I mean, that's the only
location you right from. The fourth and last view
is to calendar view. This view shows your entries
on a normal calendar. I personally use these few of the most because it gives me a good overview
of how consistent I am with my journaling. A blue square means one
entry or more for that day. An orange square means two days currently selected
with the calendar and its entry school showing
the right counting panel and a red square highlights
the date of the current date. Now we're gonna be talking
about the editor in day one. The editor is the heart of the one because
that's where we'll be creating all our content and it is found in
the right panel. The editor is where you write all your entries and
decide how they look, what extra information
you want to add to them. And that's also
where we're going to be creating offers templates, which is a very
important component of my journaling framework. But first, let's have a quick run-through of the different
options we have in there. So we have three bottom
menu's right here. And the first one
is starting from the right is the
formatting menu. It really you get about as
many formatting options in day one as you would in
any basic text editor. I'm not going to
create an entry right now using all the
formatting options. But here's a screenshot
of what an entry using a lot of different formatting
options and they want, it looks like this was an article draft from my five AM wake up
challenge back in 2020. It's useful to note that
you can also access some of the most common used
editing options by highlighting a bit of text. The second menu at the bottom of the editor window is
the attachments menu. This menu, you can
add all kinds of attachments and metadata
to your current entry. And metadata is a fancy term
to describe an extra sets of information
that describes and gives information
about other data. In our case, your
data is your entry. Your metadata can be
a number of things like what you're doing
while writing your journal, where you are in the
world right now, the time in database today, you can also attach
actual documents. Do you entries like PDF
documents or photos and videos. You can also take your
entry if you want to find it even more easily the
next time you look for it. I like to use tax for
feelings and states of minds. And I can have them
all lined up in Ditech menu right next
to the attachment menu. One item I do want to
spend a bit more time on. Here is the template item this really used to
call if my strategy, when it comes to
digital journaling, I use this option
to quickly load my daily review and the
weekly review templates. So instead of always having to type my prompts and questions, essentially the
headers of my data. I can load them up
in one-click and start filling up the
answers to data, which is what really
matters to me. If every day I wanted to log my state of mind
with the question, how are you feeling today? For instance, I don't
want to have to type How are you feeling
today, every single day? It's easier if I can
just pull it up. Attempted that already
asked me the question. I just had to type my answer, especially because
I tend to have a lot of questions
in my templates. So it's pretty easy to load up, but it's not the
most intuitive thing to create a template. So let's look how to do that. You first have to write what
you want your template to look like in a
normal text editor, like you would write
in normal entry. And then you have to copy
that and head over to the day one menu and
go to Preferences. From there, click
on the templates, the first item from the right, create a new one and paste
your content in there. From there you can give
your template a name, enable it only on a specific
journal and tag it. Once you're done, you
just have to hit save. And from now on you're
tempted to will appear in the template menu at the bottom of the editor, like
I just showed you. Every day from a daily log and every weekend
for my weekly dog, I can just slowed it up and
fill it out instead of again, having to always type the
questions into problems. One important thing to
note here is that I use to track my habits in
the weekly dog as well. To do that, I actually created a table in day one
with custom code. So you just have to learn, which is very basic, the markdown language and how
to create a table with it. And it's honestly very
easy as you can see, it visually makes sense. It doesn't actually
look like complex code. Once I had done that, every day, I would
go to my weekly log, which we usually
showing the calendar here in the upcoming Sunday. And I would go there
and to my habits data. And then I would go back to the daily log on the current date. And now we're just going
to be covering some of the few remaining
cool options in V1. Filters are pretty
easy to understanding. They want whatever filter you choose to enable
in the Filter menu will be reflected in
the different views across day one.
Here's an example. If I choose to filter
my content and only display the entries
tagged daily review, I would do it like this. When I switch over
to any of you, you can see an extra tab bar will appear to remind me that I'm filtering the content
based on specific criteria. Additionally, I can choose to
apply my filtering options only to a specific journal
or two all entries. Next step is reminders. Like any habit you're
trying to build up. Journaling can be
pretty easy to forget. And if you don't
use any calendar or time management
productivity app, yet, the chances you won't be consistent with your journaling
practice are pretty high. Thankfully, day one has a
feature to help you with it. You'll find it by
heading over to the day one menu Preferences and then going into reminders. From there, you can add a reminder by clicking
on the Plus button. You can customize
the message for the remainder and
most importantly, the time and frequency
of the remainder. The important thing
to understand here is that that
reminder will be clickable and it will take
you straight to a fresh, newly created journal entry. Day one needs to know
in what journal to store that entry and
based on what template, potentially, for me, that's really the true
power of date one, I don't even have
to create an entry. Go to the bottom text
editor menu and select my tempted like I showed you
earlier with remainders, it's all automatic
and I can even have predefined tags for
my remainder entry. It's really powerful. Next
step is the daily prompt. When nothing is active
or selected in day one, you will see that screen in
the right content panel. Along with your
journaling stats, you will get a nice
stool journaling prompts in case you're
lacking inspiration. It's very relevant option
and you'll be surprised sometimes it's how the prompts actually relates to your day. And finally, a last few things to mention for the
interface and Day One, 23 dots in the top right corner
here enable you to edit, share, or export
your current entry. You can also open it
in an external API of a compatibility and
the import process for all of these apps will vary. So I'm not going to cover each and every one of them here. And the squares icon on
the right here detach the text editor from the rest of the app and it moves
it to a new window, giving you the option to go
full screen or better focus. Combining this with a
do not disturb mode on Mac is a really good idea for me because I can get worked on if I have a notification coming up every minute in the
top-right corner of my screen. Finally, the first
option from the left in the top bar is used
to display or hide the sidebar. There you have it. I hope this helps you get a better grasp of everything you can use day one for in terms
of digital journaling. For me, the two best
things about it, our templates and the fact that everything in the journals
to create a searchable, filterable, sortable,
organized by date. That's really the power of
going digital with anything. For me, everything gets automatically a lot
more organized. So I showed you how to use day one from proper daily
and weekly journaling. But again, I highly encourage you to try
the tool for yourself, see if it works for you, and see if you can maybe
use the learnings I showed you here to create
your own framework, your own templates, and your own ecosystem around journaling. Especially in this
day and age where we have so many tools
at our disposal, it's very easy to get lost in tweaking the tools and having fun with the features rather than actually
doing the work. So remember, I'm only
giving you inspiration. It's fine if you don't
do exactly like I do. What matters is that you find something that works for you. For this assignment, I recommend you download day
one in demo mode or you can purchase it if
you feel like that's something that you're
going to use Long-term. Just try to import the
daily and weekly template into your day one account, like I showed in the
video of this course. So you can go back and watch
it again if you're not sure. And I've attached attempted, you have to copy
paste as simple text. That's the last assignment
of this course. So I hope that with all these little exercises
you've been able to get a better idea of what kind of journaling
gets best for you, what medium, what templates. And yeah, hopefully it
will also help to develop a consistent journaling
practice as well. On that note, we'll
see you in the last video for the outro of this course with the last
few lessons and a recap.
6. Recap & Outro: Thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed
this short course to lie generally framework and I hope it can inspire you to put together your own
journaling system. Remember, as I always
say, my contents, I don't believe in a one-size-fits-all
approach to productivity. Everyone is different and
if there was a magic recipe to get productive and
become your best self, everyone would jump
on the bandwagon. As I said in the
introduction of this course, I consider journaling to
be a keystone habits, a positive habit that's
going to ripple through your life and create more
positive change has an effect. That's one thing to
remember from this course. The second thing to remember, and I guess if there
was one big lesson to remember from this course, it would be this 1.5, a notebook
that you carry with you anywhere that you can write something in it
at least once a day. As I said in the course, the notebook is the most
important one for me. It's still want to keep a fire
to burn all the other ones as much as I used
the two other ones for logging in planning, which is very important. This one dotted notebook is
where I get all my ideas, getting inspired
about things in life. Write down quotes, draw doodles. It's really my brain dump. And the day and age where
everything is always stressful, our life is packed with
notifications and emails. It's so easy to forget things. I find that having these paper brain
damper is really great. It's also the journal
and a type of journaling I've been having and
doing since I was a kid. So again, thanks so
much for watching. I hope you enjoyed if you have
any comments, suggestions, ideas, feel free
to leave those in the corresponding section of the video probably down below. Feel free to also
post your thoughts in the discussion
section of this class. And don't forget to leave
a review and follow my profile as we're planning on launching more of his courses. It's actually kind of fun. Thanks again, Have a great
day, and I'll see you around.
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